Video conferencing has now taken centre stage
as a vital tool for flexible working and supporting green IT
strategies. Within organisations, video calls are free, more
reliable, better quality and easier to set up and can extend beyond
the fixed network environment to the mobile device. It shifts the
service provider’s discussion with customers from connectivity to
applications deployment.
Increasingly, the workforce is being exposed
to video communications through social network sites, webcams and
mobile camera phones. This is not the High Definition (HD) quality
needed for top-level global meetings and distance learning, but
Standard Definition (SD) which is perfectly adequate for routine
business interactions.
Audio conferencing remains a very fast and
effective tool for on-the-spot problem solving. It’s available to
everyone, easy to use and can be integrated with other desktop
tools to enable people to discuss documents and other visual
material together. This largely forgotten technology is the perfect
complement to video and web communication. It’s very easy and
familiar to use and everyone has access to a phone wherever they
are.
Web conferencing enables people to share
anything on their desktop with anyone else, via a web browser.
Instead of using a third party service provider, organisations can
run secure broadband conferencing in-house on their own IP
platform.
Video, audio and web conferencing introduce
tremendous flexibility for collaboration, cutting commute costs and
reducing the environmental footprint.
Logicalis can help you implement a multi-level
conferencing strategy optimised for the purpose – from HD quality
telepresence and distance learning, through webinars, desktop
conferencing and three-way phone calls.