Monday, December 11, 2006

Video conferencing in today's business world

Audio video conferencing is a shorthand way of describing a virtual conference where no one has to leave her office to meet up with the rest of the group. One of the great business tools of the last few years that the internet has brought to the marketplace is video conferencing. If you are new to the game there is some video conferencing hardware to consider.

A video conferencing camera is an important piece of hardware as it enables you to talk face to face to your colleague or customer across the country. Live video conferences have lots of advantages over other multimedia resources, such as video recordings or television presentations, but the main benefit is that they are interactive, allowing you to talk face to face with someone else in 'real time', but in a different location. Perhaps the biggest advantage or benefit video conferencing has to offer is the ability to meet with people in remote locations without incurring travel expenses or other expenses associated with face to face communication.

What is Video Conferencing: Video conferencing is the integration of video, audio and peripherals to enable two or more people to communicate simultaneously over some type of telecommunications lines. For video conferencing to work, you would need microphones, video cameras, the necessary computer software, hardware and peripherals, along with the transmission lines for sending video conferencing information amongst video conferencing participants. When holding a video conferencing event, a codec translates the analog information received by the microphones and video cameras into digital information, which is then transmitted to another codec that translates the digital information back to the original sounds and images, which the video conferencing participants can understand.

Add up all these factors and it is easy to see why web and video conferencing are approaching the level of mass acceptance. These are just a few examples of how various companies and institutions are getting the benefits provided by web and video conferencing.

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