Video Conferencing, Telepresence, Audio Visual & Video Conference
At a basic level, unified communications is perceived as a combination of software and hardware products, namely data, voice and video, which provide a collaborative environment for employees to communicate across, regardless of their location…..
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.
What we are witnessing in the video communications industry is the emergence of Skype colliding against telepresence becoming more affordable to the SME market…
At Cisco Live 2011 in Las Vegas Dr. Guido Jouret, CTO, Vice President and General Manager of the Emerging Technologies Group discussed Cisco’s vision and opportunity for pervasive video in the business environment.
According to a recent Hazard Warning Report by Zurich Insurance which surveyed senior managers from the UK manufacturing sector, a growing number are considering expansion into high growth markets such as Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC).
Video conferencing systems have been deployed in large enterprises for a number of years. The use of video communications has been easily justified for multi-national businesses because the ROI calculation is simple.
A recent report by the WWF has highlighted the growing popularity of video conferencing in some of the UK’s biggest companies.
HD telpresence in your living room from your own television, 3D telepresence holograms and a city totally connected by telepresence are only a few examples of how video technology is set to have a revolutionary impact on our wider society over the next decade.
When evaluating the adoption of video communications in the workplace the main measure of ROI usually centres on the reduction in travel time for business professionals and therefore a reduction in the associated travel costs.
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