A new collaboration workplace in a post PC world – what role will video communications play?
There is a dramatic shift underway in the workplace, driven by changing demographics, the advent of mobile devices, the cloud and greater comfort with social tools, virtual and video interaction in everyday business. And this powerful combination is bringing an end to the PC.
The new workplace model will unify communication and collaboration in ways that were simply not possible in a client-server desktop world, as Gartner stated, ‘People don’t want computers. They want to relate, share, communicate, enjoy, learn, discover, analyse, and create.’
Transforming communications and collaboration in the workplace
The Millennials who grew up watching YouTube and using digital video are natural adopters of video, particularly on mobile devices. The latest forecasts predict that by 2015 mobile video data traffic will represent two thirds of all mobile data traffic, up from half at the end of 2010.
IT must embrace video as a native aspect of the new workplace – communication modes will be integrated to allow users to easily communicate with each other – for example, a user on a tablet device will be able to share voice, video and data with a user in a telepresence room.
The concept of presence will be central to this capability because the definition of presence will expand beyond just available or busy to include status, device, time, location and available bandwidth. By registering this expanded definition of presence with the network, the network will be able to notify peer nodes and devices as to the best way to set up, monitor and tune a communications and collaboration experience with other parties according to what capabilities their devices provide and their particular location.
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Collaborate in a post PC world
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