Video conferencing can transform the way you do business, allowing you to meet face-to-face with customers, colleagues, and suppliers around the world.
Video conferencing, also known as telepresence, is two way interactive communication that is similar to a telephone call but over video. It allows geographically dispersed participants to connect in a live meeting environment without the time and costs associated with travel.
Participants can see facial expressions and other non-verbal cues as if they were in the same room.
Video conferencing provides face-to-face interaction between colleagues, business partners, and customers without the hassle of travel. This increased face time strengthens relationships which can help drive productivity and customers satisfaction. Other benefits include:
Video conferencing clients and infrastructure are available in a myriad of different ways on myriad of different devices. This helps make deploying video solutions scalable, secure and cost effective.
Video hardware is a physical device that is dedicated to video conferencing. These devices can be standards-based endpoints or back end infrastructure from manufactures such as Polycom, Cisco and others
Soft clients are video applications that can be downloaded onto computer, smartphone or tablet. Participants can connect to a conference by simply launching the application and calling another user.
Cloud services provide the infrastructure for video conferencing. This includes virtual meeting rooms to connect multiple participants along with device registration and personal video accounts.
Video conferencing used to only be available through a dedicated video conferencing system called a codec. However, thanks to major advancements in technology you can now video conference virtually anywhere there’s an internet connection!