...Introduction Most of us live far from home? Right? Wouldn’t it be great to be able to see your families more often than not? Over the past few decades, technological advancements have changed our world. Communication between people has developed greatly over the past century. In the old days, communication was normally face-to-face. With new developments, worldwide videoconferencing can now take place. It doesn’t matter how the technology is used. Whether it’s a family talking to a loved one overseas, a couple in a long distance relationship or a businessman talking to a client; with the personal uses, business uses and the overall pros and cons of using the technology. It will be the new way of life. Communicating all over the world is virtually limitless. Transition: Having the ability to communicate with someone in a more lifelike manor is the major benefit to video conferencing but there are so many more for the average person. Main Point #1 Personal Benefits Benefits of Video Conferencing.com Timing On the Go, while running errands While at home, in comfort Last minute notice and need to explain something to a co-worker Long Distance Having face time with a loved one in Iraq or another home land Cost Effectiveness Saves money from traveling cross country or worldwide\ Transition: Even with all of the personal benefits, a company’s use of the technology is even more beneficial. Main Topic #2 Business Benefits Increase in Productivity ...
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...Telepresence vs. Videoconferencing Resolving the Cost/Benefit Conundrum Page 1 Copyright © 2006 Wainhouse Research, LLC Telepresence vs. Videoconferencing Resolving the Cost/Benefit Conundrum Data from multiple users of telepresence and videoconferencing systems leads us to believe that the actual cost per hour for these two types of systems may not be all that different. This paper describes our findings and how we came to these conclusions. January 28, 2008 Revision 9 Introduction More than a decade after the first telepresence solution was introduced to the public, telepresence hit the limelight towards the end of calendar year 2006. With high technology giants gaining the attention of C-level customers, many conferencing and collaboration managers are beginning to look at this new class of enterprise communications system more closely and to examine their assumptions and perceptions around the concept of telepresence. Differentiating Telepresence from Videoconferencing Many in the end user community are very familiar with videoconferencing, a solution set that has been around for over twenty years. Videoconferencing provides two-way, interactive audio and video communications between two or more end points. In the past decade, videoconferencing technology and products have advanced along multiple fronts – including the move to IP networks that provide higher bandwidth, lower costs, and vastly improved connection reliability; the evolution from low...
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...Virtual Meeting 1. 2. What is the distinction between videoconferencing and telepresence? Ans-1: Videoconference is a technique of communication which allows individuals at two or more locations to communicate through two-way video and audio transmissions at the same time. The critical feature of videoconferencing is the digital compression of audio and video streams by a device called a codec. Those streams are then divided into packets and transmitted over a network or the internet. On the other hand, telepresence is the top-of-the-line videoconferencing technology. It strives to make users feel as if they are actually present in a location different from their own. Telepresence products provide the highest-quality videoconferencing available on the market to date. Only a handful of companies, such as Cisco, HP, and Polycom, supply these products. 3. What are the ways in which videoconferencing provides value to a business? Would you consider it smart management? Explain your answer. Ans-2: Yes, I would consider it smart management because in businesses where the company men need to interact and communicate constantly with people from various locations especially foreign, it is a very effective. It allows for 'better' meetings as well: it's easier to meet with partners, suppliers, subsidiaries, and colleagues from within the office or around the world on a more frequent basis, which in most cases simply cannot be reasonably accomplished through travel. They can also meet...
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...business meeting can be done by the video or teleconferencing, but where it is necessary to be present physically, there is no alternative. The buyer of the garments has to come & check the quality of garment product because he can’t check the quality of the garments over camera. In near future unless 3D telepresence system or something revolutionary technology come up the business travel will not extinct. Question 2: what is the distinction between videoconferencing and telepresence? Answer: the distinction between videoconference and telepresence lie on the technology. Telepresence picks up where video conferencing left off. Videoconferencing is the predecessor of telepresence. Telepresence is real time, full-high-definition, immersible sound and vision. tele presence is more technologically advanced than videoconference and thus more costly than videoconferencing. Question 3: what are the ways in which videoconferencing provides value to a business? Would you consider it smart management? Explain your answer. Answer: videoconferencing is providing value in business in many ways. It has- - Reduced travel cost - Improved communications and professional relationships - Enabled Work remotely - Reduced operation cost Definitely it’s smart management. It is reducing the travel cost and time. That time can be used on some other productive activities. It enables to work remotely simply with a laptop and a internet connection. And by this it subsequently reduce the operation cost...
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...1. What are the advantages of using videoconferencing technologies?What are the disadvantages? The advantages of using videoconferencing technologies are companies are able to have meetings easily between branches that are situated very far away.Beside that’s,companies are able to save on travel and hotel costs, previously incurred through transporting different employees to one place.Other from that’s,meeting can be organised at short notice and the employee are able to work from home and the result its can increasing work flexibility. The disadvantages are include the techonology issue,facility issue,cultural issue and inter-personal relationship issue.Based on the technology issue,online meetings and web conferences to be productive, participants require suitable hardware, software and Internet connectivity.Poor web conferencing technology or inadequate training using the technology will undermine its success.In the facility issue,suitable facilities are needed for web meeting participants.Cameras, microphones, monitors and computer keyboards need to be situated in a quiet room with comfortable seating and proper lighting conditions. Beside that’s,in the cultural issue, Web conferencing often appeals to Internet savvy, computer literate individuals.Many people,however, are uncomfortable with new technologies.Transitioning from in-person meetings to web meetings must be well managed, like any other significant business...
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...Virtual meetings are the suboptimal reality of most information workers' lives. They save on travel time and costs, but they deprive meeting-goers of a host of non-verbal signals that help us understand each other. Without the body language, the information stream goes down from broadband to dial-up, the signal to noise ratio goes up, and the possibility for miscommunication accordingly rises. And it's not just the visual cues that are missing. The quality of most phone lines and digital voice lines are quite poor, so a huge amount of vocal tone is also lost, and the resulting loss of nuance makes virtual meetings even less satisfying and more difficult. So what's to be done? Here are five steps you can take to help put some of the richness back into a virtual meeting. 1. Recognize that virtual meetings are suboptimal and plan accordingly. Do the less important things via virtual meetings whenever possible. Save the emotional stuff for face-to-face meetings, because it's emotions and attitudes that are conveyed mostly via body language. So if you're kicking off something important, or celebrating a big win, bite the meeting bullet and bring everyone together. In the virtual meetings, do the routine information-sharing stuff. Trying to solve disagreements or rev people up via a digital phone line is pure folly. Our emotional investment in a phone call is simply less than in a face-to-face meeting, and the lack of visual and tonal information makes it much harder to get key messages...
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...annual rate of 30 percent. Since business organization are moving on to Video conference and Web conference for reducing their travel expenses so we can say that Video conference and Web conference will make business travel extinct. Question2: What is the distinction between video conferencing and telepresence? Answer: There are some distinction between video conferencing and telepresence. Videoconferencing uses low technology but telepresence uses higher technology. Videoconferencing’s performance quality is low but telepresence performance quality is very high. Videoconferencing installation cost is not much expensive but telepresence installation cost is very much expensive. Big and small both organizations use Videoconferencing but only big organization can use telepresence because of its high expense. Question3: What are the ways in which videoconferencing provides value to a business? Would you consider it smart management? Explain your answer. Answer: The ways in which videoconferencing provides value to a business is saving the cost and time. Videoconferencing can be more direct that communicating through email, letter immediately. However, if the business required a lot of customer, I would consider it smart management to...
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...A meeting of minds in a lean, green world | Two years on, one company has used videoconferencing to reduce its emissions by 40,000kg of CO2 a year | | Videoconferencing can save customers money in ongoing overheads and travel costs, as well as slash carbon emissions in the drive for green IT, if the experience of public sector services provider Amey is any guide. Two years ago, Amey engaged BT as the reseller to phase in a videoconferencing set-up, delivered as a managed service. According to Keith Sexton, director of health, safety, environment and quality at Amey, videoconferencing so far saves the organisation. That is in an 11,000-employee company that manages vital infrastructure and public services at 200 locations around the UK, with 80 per cent of its carbon footprint caused by travel and transport activity. "We have an internal target to reduce our carbon. But if you look at the type of clients we bid for, about 80 per cent are government or quasigovernment organizations. These clients expressly ask us what we are doing about our carbon footprint and how we will fit in with the overall governmental savings," said Sexton. Increased savings While video conferencing is not the primary way for Amey to reduce carbon emissions, it has contributed significantly - mainly by enabling staff to have routine meetings over the airwaves rather than having to get in a car or plane and go there. "We did make the decision last year that we would try to reduce our emissions...
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...This paper also discusses Amtrak’s implementation of video conferencing with the purpose of saving on company wide business travel. This paper also communicates the pros and some cons of video conferencing video conferencing. Lastly, this paper outlines recommendations on how effective it would be for Amtrak to implement video conferencing and how it will benefit assist the company’s short and long-term goals in meeting their strategic goals and objectives. II. Definition/History of Video Conferencing Definition “Video conferencing is described as a real-time video session between two or more users that reside in two or more locations. While vide videoconferencing supports several end points communicating, the terms “video call” and “video chat” generally mean one-on-one.” (www.pcmag.com) The very first videoconferencing was done with traditional analog TV and satellites. In the early 1980s, in house room systems became popular after Compression Labs pioneered digitized video systems that were...
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...Benefits of Video Conferencing for Businesses videoconferencing Conducting a conference between two or more participants at different sites by using computer networks to transmit audio and video data. For example, a point-to-point (two-person) video conferencing system works much like a video telephone. Each participant has a video camera, microphone, and speakers mounted on his or her computer. As the two participants speak to one another, their voices are carried over the network and delivered to the other's speakers, and whatever images appear in front of the video camera appear in a window on the other participant's monitor. Multipoint videoconferencing allows three or more participants to sit in a virtual conference room and communicate as if they were sitting right next to each other. Until the mid 90s, the hardware costs made videoconferencing prohibitively expensive for most organizations, but that situation is changing rapidly. Many analysts believe that videoconferencing will be one of the fastest-growing segments of the computer industry in the latter half of the decade. Companies of all sizes and in every industry are quickly adopting video conferencing as a way to stay connected, increase productivity and cut costs in these difficult economic times. As prices on conferencing equipment drop and the technology becomes easier to use video conferencing is gradually becoming an efficient way for business to communicate with employees, customers and sales prospects...
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...MANAGEMENT VIRTUAL MEETINGS: SMART MANAGEMENT Instead oftaking that 6:30 A.M. plane to make a round of meetings in Dallas, wouldn't it be great if you could attend these events without leaving your desktop? 'Ioday you can, thanks to technologies for videoconferencing and for hosting online meetings over the Web. A June 2008 report issued by the Global e-Sustainability Initiative and the Climate Group estimated that up to 20 percent of business travel could be replaced by virtual meeting technology. A video conference allows individuals at two or more locations to communicate simultaneously through two-way video and audio transmissions. The critical feature of videoconferencing is the digital compression of audio and video streams by a device called a codec. Those streams are then divided into packets and transmitted over a network or the Internet. Until recently, the technology was plagued by poor audio and video performance, and its cost was prohibitively high for all but the largest and most powerful corporations. Most companies deemed videoconferencing a poor substitute for face-to-face meetings. However, vast improvements in videoconferenc ing and associated technologies have renewed inter est in this way of working. Videoconferencing is now growing at an annual rate of 30 percent. Proponents of the technology claim that it does more than sim ply reduce costs. It allows for "better" meetings as well: it's easier to meet with partners, suppliers, sub sidiaries, and colleagues...
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...video performance (delays) stated in the case study still exist, making the video conference experience less than ideal. I don’t know if the NBN will improve this, but I believe that this is still the major obstacle to videoconferencing still not taking off. * Cost is prohibitive for the majority of businesses, and possibly outweighing any cost advantage of reduced travel. * If extinct means never, then no, it won’t replace face-to-face meetings. This is still fundamental to business operations. A face-to-face meeting at some stage will still be desirable and probably necessary * Web conferencing, using webcams, still have a place in providing a video contact option, if you are prepared to accept any lower quality that you may experience. * If you can access another companies’ high quality videoconferencing equipment (rent the access time) then this may provide an alternative. There may be an argument for community based videoconferencing equipment. Question 2 Telepresence is videoconferencing technology that makes you feel as though you are actually there. It is typified by the provision of high-definition images. Telepresence, by its very nature, would require the latest technology to work effectively. Question 3 How videoconferencing provides value to a business: * A face-to-face experience rather than an auditory one (phone/teleconference). Therefore you have all the clues from nonverbal communication. * Time factor....
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...However, it is not ideal for every situation in the business. According to the case in question, “Before setting up videoconferencing or telepresence, it is important for a company to make sure it really needs the technology to ensure that it will be a profitable venture…There are still plenty of times when face-to-face interaction is more desirable, and often traveling to meet a client is essential for cultivating clients and closing sales. ” In some cases, face-to-face interaction is the best way to resolve the problems or make mutual agreements with customers. 2. In regards to the case discussed, “ A videoconference allows individuals at two or more locations to communicate through two-way video and audio transmissions at the same time.” On the other hand, telepresence is a more advanced technology than videoconferencing. “ The top-of-the-line videoconferencing technology is known as telepresence. Telepresence strives to make users feel as if they are actually present in a location different from their own.” 3. There are many ways in which videoconferencing provides value to a business. Cost effectiveness and efficiency are two of them. For example, it allows sales representatives to do their presentations without meeting with customers face to face. Employees are also able to work at home while conducting meetings with other colleagues through videoconferencing. I consider it to be smart management simply because it will reduce the cost for traveling while improving the...
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...Capabilities Video Conferencing Capabilities Essays and Term Papers Top of Form [pic] Bottom of Form Top of Form Bottom of Form • Video Conferencing Video Conferencing One could say that the ability to communicate is a key to success. Merriam Webster’s defines communication as a verbal or written message and also the technology of the transmission of information (as by print or telecommunication) (http://aolsvc.merriam-webster.aol.com). There... 2185 Words | 6 Pages Integrated Services Digital Network, Videoconferencing, Wide area network, H.323 • Video Conferencing CompareBusinessProducts.com What to Look for in a Video Conferencing System What to Look for in a Video Conferencing System Video conferencing has become “the next best thing to being there” for many businesses. Facilitating face-to-face collaboration for people who are in different locations... 1454 Words | 5 Pages Videoconferencing, Unified communications, Computer monitor, Usability • Video Conferencing Video conferencing is the message between two or more people, using computers based networks, and sending out both audio and video information between them. The main requirements to set up a videoconference known also as video teleconference are: • A web camera • Microphone • Screen • Speakers ... 527 Words | 3 Pages • Video Conferencing BUSINESS USE OF VIDEO CONFERENCING ➢ Business video conferencing strategies span a wide-range...
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...However, it is not ideal for every situation in the business. According to the case in question, “Before setting up videoconferencing or telepresence, it is important for a company to make sure it really needs the technology to ensure that it will be a profitable venture…There are still plenty of times when face-to-face interaction is more desirable, and often traveling to meet a client is essential for cultivating clients and closing sales. ” In some cases, face-to-face interaction is the best way to resolve the problems or make mutual agreements with customers. 2. In regards to the case discussed, “ A videoconference allows individuals at two or more locations to communicate through two-way video and audio transmissions at the same time.” On the other hand, telepresence is a more advanced technology than videoconferencing. “ The top-of-the-line videoconferencing technology is known as telepresence. Telepresence strives to make users feel as if they are actually present in a location different from their own.” 3. There are many ways in which videoconferencing provides value to a business. Cost effectiveness and efficiency are two of them. For example, it allows sales representatives to do their presentations without meeting with customers face to face. Employees are also able to work at home while conducting meetings with other colleagues through videoconferencing. I consider it to be smart management simply because it will reduce the cost for traveling while improving the efficiency...
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