Distance Video Conferencing/Collaboration
Over the past few years of working in multi-office/campus organizations, I’ve often found myself in various video conference sessions. Most of the time they are pretty decent, but ever so often you feel like you are trying to communicate with an orbiting crew of moonwalkers. Times have definitely changed. Lately I’ve had the opportunity to work on a communcations project that will ultimately result in the marriage of various video conferencing and software collaboration tools.
For the most part, I’ve almost exclusively been working with the Tandberg and Polycom video units. I’m not leaning toward one product line versus the other…individually, each company has their own set of software tools, network appliances, and directory integration applications… but the common ground they share is a collection of kickass toys.
Both vendors have a very impressive suite of video conference units, scaling from the desktop to settop units that can drive a very large digital display. The most impressive for me, was their answer to fluid video communications over a relatively degraded signal. Leveraging a video/audio synchronization technology that happens at the packet level, the voice and image of the persons at the end-point remain in sync; regardless of the quality of picture. Having said that, applying this kind of technology to a local campus is extremely cool. We configured our Polycom demo units at 2Mb per/sec…. and was shocked at the result. Crystal clear picture while transmitting data via a Smart Sympodium.
So now that I’ve praised the glories of video conference goodies, I’ll tell you the punishment for going down this road…. cold hard cash. Enterprise video collaboration is horribly expensive. I’m not saying that it’s not worth it…I’m not saying it is…. just know, that if you want the kickass goodies, you better get out the checkbook.
Already proving its merit in global organizations and academic distance learning programs, I can definitely see these kind of products being injected into our daily lives; it’s just going to take a much broader user base, and a lot lower price.
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Video Conferencing is really a very convenient and very fast way in keeping in touch with your business partners.`:`
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Video conferencing gave us a way to handle business meetings more efficiently,”~