Video Conferencing (portal)
Video Conferencing was once always deemed to be used by the upper echelons of business like Financial Market Trading companies with the "Gordon Gekko's" monologuing to their employees.
The reality nowadays is that video conferencing is almost a standard form of communication. If you mention video conferencing to a student the first word from their mouth would be Skype.
Skype, recently bought by Microsoft, is used the globe over, but, is inherently insecure, as in, a hacker of any note could easiliy monitor the traffic between two locations using Skype.
Current business level video conferencing uses H.323 as a transmission protocol and is encrypted to the level required by U.S. security.
Sir Philip Green's recent publication regarding the governments use of hotel rooms for meetings in London, some 100,000 rooms booked in 2010, has sparked the obvious question as to how to reduce these costs and VC is at the top!
It is true that boardroom level VC can be expensive, but, the return on investment soon overtakes the intial expenditure. That said the entire system could be leased.
Take a look at the other options under the "Boardroom", "Office", "Home" and "Private" tabs above to see how video conferencing could be used in your business and see how much time and money you save by not travelling to your business meetings, but, by switching on your video conferencing screen!
