Our Innovations

Clear-Com is dedicated to innovation--advancing a legacy of professional intercom solutions four decades in the making. From the industry’s first party-line beltpack to the first advanced digital matrix technology and revolutionary integrated wireless intercom, today Clear-Com brings to market the industry’s first native IP Communications solutions based on the ground-breaking I.V.Core technology.

I.V.Core Technology

Clear-Com’s I.V.Core is a breakthrough intercom technology for defining Intercom-Over-IP (IOIP) intercom communications. Providing high-quality, high-bandwidth audio that will not stress an existing IP network, I.V.Core is an advanced set of software building blocks and engines for creating a real-time, dynamic distributed system with non-blocking intercom capabilities.

I.V.Core is unique in the way that it routes audio, making intelligent routing decisions based on the audio that is being routed, rather than just mixing and switching it as in traditional (TDM-based) and other IP solutions. This maintains a very low latency in the core while keeping control over network bandwidth. Only the audio that needs to be routed gets directed from sources to destinations allowing very efficient network bandwidth utilization, which in turn allows the system to use wider band CODECS for a given system size. When combined with additional error recovery and noise reduction algorithms, the user experiences high clarity, low noise voice communications even when using challenging connections such as the internet. The I.V.Core technology can scale much more effectively to higher numbers of users while maintaining a high tolerance to poorer quality or traffic laden IP networks.

True to its name, all future products under development will include I.V.Core technology as a foundational component.

I.V.Core Technology Features
•    Intelligent audio-routing decision engine
•    High quality voice with low latency
•    Voice data redundancy packet loss reconstruction and recovery algorithms
•    Secure and private with AES 128-bit encryption
•    Runs on standard IT networks
•    Low bandwidth: as low as 6kbps to 44 kbps per connection
•    Highly scalable for high volume participants and multi-session conferences

To learn more about this technology, click here to download your copy of the I.V.Core Technology White Paper.

Hybrid Intercom Network

I.V.Core is already fully integrated into Clear-Com IP-based products, delivering IOIP capabilities to new and traditional intercom systems to enable a highly flexible workflow to be achieved within TDM and IP-Server based communication “Hybrid Network”.

The Hybrid Network is a single communication network comprised of two combined technologies: Eclipse TDM matrix technology and IP-Server based communications. Clear-Com’s Eclipse Median or Eclipse-Omega Digital Matrix Systems seamlessly link to native IP-based Concert software-based intercom system or IP-enabled V-Series control panels via the IVC-32, a 32-channel high density IP matrix card.

By embedding I.V.Core into traditional hardware panels and soft-panels, communication workflow options are endless. Intercom users can leave behind fly packs for special live event broadcasting. Instead, users in an editing suite or at a mobile production truck that already has Internet connectivity can conveniently plug a control panel into any standard Ethernet connection and immediately be connected with the producer and other production crew at head office. Concert allows any local or remote user with a computer, internet and headset to use a Concert soft-panel on their desk to communicate with other Concert users. With the addition of a new high density IP card for its Eclipse Matrix range, Clear-Com users can now link into this new network from their traditional (TDM-based) intercom panels or wired/wireless beltpacks.

The Hybrid Network, with the inherent strengths of TDM and the flexibility afforded by I.V.Core, is truly the best of both worlds.