China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (COSCO) is a large conglomerate making international shipping as its core business and encompassing shipping agency, forwarding, air freight forwarding, terminals and warehousing, inland haulage, trade, industry, financial affairs, insurance, real estate, tourism, contract employment and medium-level and higher education. COSCO Group has established its representative offices and subsidiaries in each continent in the world. So, the network application is very complicated. The business communication and meeting of each office are frequently required because the global shipping is very special. The jobs are often delayed due to the business journey. The employees training cannot be well carried out due to the time zone and region problems. COSCO Group determines to construct their own videoconferencing system, to meet the requirements of internal meeting of each representative offices and subsidiaries, training and emergency communication.

COSCO Group global videoconferencing network covers 13 representative offices and 8 subsidiaries, including Japan, Singapore, Australia, Germany, New York, Paris, and HongKong, Qingdao, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Tianjin, Beijing, etc. The system main conference site is located in Beijing Headquarter. COSCO is a multinational company, so, its communication infrastructure are complicated, including multiple access modes such as ISDN, E1, IP, etc; the distribution regions are located in Asia, Europe, Africa, America, and Australia. The requirement of the equipment is very high. After comprehensive test and evaluation , COSCO Group determines to adopt Huawei ViewPoint  8000 Videoconferencing system. The whole system employs one set of ViewPoint  8620 videoconferencing platform, 20 sets of ViewPoint  8020plus videoconferencing terminals and 3 sets of ViewPoint Openeye desktop videoconferencing terminals, with ISDN, E1, and IP mixing networking mode. The remote meeting and service training of COSCO Group and all subsidiaries are realized, and is highly praised by COSCO.

Figure 1 COSCO global videoconferencing system

Features of COSCO videoconferencing system:

• The system is in full switching structure, with the sufficient backup mechanism, which could satisfy the requirements of long-time, uninterrupted and stable operation.
  
  
• The system has large subscriber base: the single module of ViewPoint 8620 can support 128 IP(768K)/128 ISDN(512K)/96 V.35/64 E1/1 155M optical interface. With its 3-level cascading, virtual terminal and dynamic cascading technology, the system could meet the future expansion requirements, protecting legacy investment. 
  
  
•  The system is fully compatible with H.323 and H.320 protocols, supporting 26-channel transcoding, to guarantee the large/small meeting effect for COSCO complicated network environment.

With the industry leading and patented feature of SiteCall, the user could convene, control and end the ad hoc meeting at the terminal side without any involvement of technical staff, tearing down the barrier between average people and complicated communication technic. Huawei ViewPoint 8000 Videoconferencing System can meet the requirements of COSCO global and 24-hour meeting requirements, and has borne COSCO several global meetings and daily department office meeting. The training of the global employees can be carried out in low cost. The system features excellent image, high voice quality, class-carrier stability and Huawei service guaranty, and is highly praised by COSCO.