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IT can not only improve its own efficiency but can change the way in which entire organisations work. Unified Communications and Video Collaboration can take people off roads or planes for meetings and enable truly flexible home working strategies. The improvement in bandwidth availability and the lowering of bandwidth costs allows us to communicate in a much richer way, using high definition video, moving high quality voice calls anywhere in the world, and using the new generation of Web 2.0 communications tools such as instant messaging and multi-media collaboration. The inflexibility of video systems locked away in rooms has been replaced by video anywhere, from the desktop to the home. The desk phone is now a part of a global communications network, and can be located on your desk, in your pocket, or at your home. Calls can be routed automatically to where you are irrespective of location or device. Simply, the advent of IP communications and massive increases in fixed and mobile bandwidth allows us to work from wherever we are, drastically changing an individuals travel patterns and carbon footprint. |
