Thursday, July 3, 2014

A Crystal Ball Into Video Conferencing Systems

By Rosella Campbell


People are in constant communication as days goes by. Everyone needs to be in touch with their relatives, friends and business associates. There are many ways that people can make use of to communicate. The use of video conferencing systems is one of those ways that is gradually gaining acceptance and popularity in many parts of the world.

The above systems have been in use for almost a century now. The earliest recorded occurrence of use of teleconferencing for meetings is in Germany. Later on, this innovation gained favor in other parts of the world such as the United States of America. It has a wide range of applications for instance in various electronic learning set ups.

Teleconferencing has come a long way since it was invented some time back in the twentieth century. The above technology has been used in many areas of specialization. People have needed to talk on a face to face basis for some time now and this innovation has greatly enabled this to happen. Examples where such systems are made use of is for instance when holding group meetings for multinational companies and organizations.

The same solution is used by doctors and patients who are not physically at one location. The doctor is able to see patients rather than just hearing their grievances via a telephone call. The ability to see the person one is talking to is quite important and crucial to effective communication. Since some years back, only students were making use of this technology in a miniature form.

Images are normally captured by cameras that are strategically placed in front of the parties that are meeting. The cameras can also be distributed across a room that has been designated for such meetings. The locations that can be attached to the above scenario can be quite many as technology is quickly advancing each and every day.

There are two common teleconferencing systems that groups of people can make use of to hold virtual meetings through the World Wide Web. The first one is a fully dedicated virtual conference solution that is complete with all the necessary equipment fitted into a special room. Such rooms are built for the sole purpose of allowing people to hold meetings from different locations.

Big multinational companies are gradually embracing this concept and are setting up these special rooms in their various headquarters in different parts of the world. This solution saves a lot of money that would have been used to transport individuals from one city to another. The time and finances that could be used during the process of travelling to attend a certain meeting are channeled to acquiring a fully dedicated virtual conference system.

A desktop system is actually the cheaper alternative that can be made use of by almost any group of people who may want to meet through the internet. All is needed here is a reliable and high bandwidth world wide web access to enable fast communication without any form of lagging taking place during the course of the meeting.




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