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Bridging Time, Connecting Lives: History Of Video Conferencing

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Bridging Time, Connecting Lives: History Of Video Conferencing

Once upon a time, video conferencing did not exist. If you want to speak to several people, you’d have to climb up the apex of a hill and loudly invite them to visit your cornfield. While therapeutic and easy, shouting can, nevertheless, be exhausting. Soon, people grew tired of shouting, so they tried communicating by telegraph. However, talking by clicking sounds was not very user-friendly. For a while,the telephone seemed the best solution. The invention of the television, however, opened the doors to better and even more dramatic means for communication. It was not long before video conferencing was developed, and in time, it became the most virtual form of person-to-person communication. Ironically, the history of video conferencing did not start with video conferencing.

Talking Televisions
The history of video conferencing really began with television. Thanks to the invention of television, analog conferencing became possible. The term “analog” means “copy.” Simply put, this form of conferencing consists of a cable that connects two TV systems. While analog conferencing is extremely basic, many TV stations continue to use it.

The Future Then
A fake helicopter ride to view a model of New York City was not the only exhibit during the 1964 World Fair. A milestone in the history of video conferencing took place, and this milestone goes by the name video conferencing. About half a decade later, in 1970, At&T unveiled its Picturephone video conferencing gadget. With a hefty monthly charge 0 and payphone calls costing about 10 cents, the Picturephone was simply too pricey.

Enterprising Ericsson
1976 was another red-letter year in the history of video conferencing. On this year, Ericcson gave a demonstration for the first trans-Atlantic LME video telephone call. This motivated other companies to polish their own video conferencing models, in the hope of striking gold. The result was the creation of new video protocols. These were never included in products that were marketed to the public, however.

That same year, a Japanese company successfully created video conferencing between Tokyo and Osaka, covering a distance of about 325 miles.

A Very Expensive Chat
The next era of the history of video conferencing unfolded in the early 1980s. At the time, video conferencing products were still novelty items, and they cost an arm and a leg. Consider these:

1. In 1982, Compression Labs’ video conferencing unit cost a whopping 0,000, with lines that had a ,000 per hour price tag.

2. In 1986, PictureTel unveiled its own video conferencing component, which costs a “mere” ,000. Its hourly line fee was 0.

3. In the late 1980s, Mitsubishi created a phone with a still-picture. The picture was black and white, and both parties had to clam up while the picture was transmitting. Understandably, the unit only stayed on the market for a couple of years.

The Net Catches the Video Conferencing Bug
Several technological breakthroughs in the 1990s were instrumental in improving video conferencing systems. For example, video files could be made more compact, allowing videoconferencing from the comfort of one’s desktop computer. Also, Internet Protocol, or IP, became more complex. IBM unveiled another black and white video conferencing system in 1991, but this time the pictures moved, and they could be viewed on a PC. Eventually, breakthrough software allowed video conferencing to be enjoyed through programs such as MSN messenger and Yahoo messenger.

What lies next in the history of video conferencing? No one knows. One thing is certain, however: video conferencing has a big and bright future ahead.

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Video Conferencing – a Consultants Perspective

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Video Conferencing – a Consultants Perspective

Video conferencing has been tipped for the top for some time now, and finally its day has arrived. Here, Mike Entwistle, Managing Director for CCOMM Ltd, who started in the conferencing consulting space explains how the combination of the burgeoning ‘green’ movement, improved technologies, lower prices and a new generation that is ready and able to embrace video means that video conferencing will be the ubiquitous tool for communication in the 21st Century.

40 years ago the first video call took place, when AT&T introduced the Picturephone at the 1964 World’s Fair in America. Viewed as a fascinating curiosity at the time, it never actually became popular and was too expensive to be practical for most consumers. At its peak, the Picturephone service had only 500 subscribers, and the service faded away by the mid 1970’s.

Now, nearly four decades later, videoconferencing has come of age, with manufacturers such as Polycom, Tandberg and Life Size routinely selling tens of thousands of units a year worldwide. It’s a growing market. In 2005 video conferencing was worth about .15 billion globally, according to Frost & Sullivan. Now the market is expected to reach .1 billion by 2010, growing at a compound annual rate of 22.1 per cent. Another research firm Gartner is even more bullish, projecting the video conferencing industry to be worth .8 billion by 2011.

The success of YouTube and the rise of social media networking driven by sites such as Facebook and MySpace has made video today’s tool for smart, modern trendy users. Video overcomes the distance barriers and has ‘stickiness’ for today’s Y generation. Hundreds of millions of YouTube videos are watched each day, and even organisations are routinely posting their corporate videos on the site as a means of tracking comment and generating greater user familiarity. For example, companies such as Cadbury’s are fully embracing the new technology as demonstrated by the recent advert featuring a drum-playing gorilla, which gained more than 1 million views on YouTube.

All this activity, not to mention the environmental pressures, has made video conferencing an accepted method of communication as organisations of all sizes try to save time, and reduce their emissions and carbon footprint. Environmental issues have turned the spotlight on the excesses of corporate travel – not just airlines, but simply say, from one side of the county to another. For example, CCOMM works with North West police forces including; Lancashire, Merseyside, Cumbria, Greater Manchester and Cheshire, who use video conferencing for weekly staff meetings. Lancashire Police Constabulary covers quite a wide geographically dispersed area in the North West of England and found it was wasting an enormous amount of time, resource and money, while officers drove for hours just to reach these meetings. Video conferencing has saved each Constabulary time, travel budget, enhanced general communication and addressed some of their ‘green’ concerns.

Time spent traveling is time wasted, so organisations are looking for an alternative. It’s not so much air miles that are in demand these days, but carbon credits and video miles as a necessary measure of ‘greenness’. With carbon footprint reduction an increasingly important consideration for today’s businesses, video conferencing is one solution which can help meet corporate environmental goals by reining back on travel, especially once finance directors start seeing details of their likely ‘carbon allocations’.

According to one recent Gartner research note, “Gartner recommends carbon footprint reduction as a more sustainable long-term objective than carbon offsetting (such as planting trees to compensate for carbon dioxide output), and video will be a key component of that reduction strategy for many enterprises.”

However, it is not just green issues that have driven take-up of video conferencing. Technical developments too have made video conferencing a more user friendly and practical solution, less expensive than before to implement, and now offering better quality, on the desktop. These developments mean video conferencing is no longer solely the domain of the multinational. SME users too, hard pressed in running their own businesses, with no time to waste on travel are also prospective users. That’s why analysts believe video conferencing will continue to grow during the next few years, spurred on by instant messaging (IM), desktop collaboration, and the casual and more-frequent use of video conferencing as a mere click from the desktop.

As an integrator of videoconferencing solutions, we are also really starting to see the industry fly and we are gaining more enquiries year on year about our services and the end-users knowledge and understanding of the technology is certainly improving dramatically. There is no longer any mystique about video conferencing. Organisations want to be able to use it: not in video suites where they have to rely on a technician to use smoke and mirrors to get it to work, but on the desktop, where using it is ‘as easy as making a phone call’, integrated with key desktop and networking software.

In fact, video conferencing should no longer be seen in isolation but as an element of real-time collaborative communications which also include video, data and the Web, delivered through partnerships with Microsoft, Cisco, Avaya, and Nortel which help create efficient, high quality, more scalable solutions for business users.

Many IT executives already consider their organisations to be a ‘virtual workplace’ with, in some cases, over 60 percent of employees working remotely from their supervisors. The rise of IP video conferencing, whether from desktop or room-to-room, now provides a more cost-effective way to communicate with remote employees than ISDN-based video conferencing, with estimated paybacks ranging from 12-18 months for companies that replace ISDN video conferencing with IP systems.

Unlike the old perception of video conferencing as expensive to implement and jerky to watch, today’s desktop-based, IP friendly solutions are even flexible enough for someone to be patched into a conference while still in their car. You can even start with a phone call, and then ‘add the video’. That’s a long way from booking a video conference

The image quality offered by video conferencing has also improved markedly, to the extent that, with high resolution HD images, it is possible even to view stitching on products, or faults on printed circuit boards. That too has increasing ‘video conferencing’ marketability in the manufacturing sector. Audio bandwidth too (22 KHz) is now of the same quality you’d expect to have on your home audio system.

Looking ahead to 2008, organisations want to make collaboration more natural for staff who typically may be working in remote locations: from home, at other offices on a large campus, or with business partners in their offices. Voice or video on the desktop, at users’ fingertips, offers the prospect of potential ‘instant’ collaboration every time the phone rings and avoids having to book a room for video conferencing. Such a desire for instant collaboration, allied to more efficient use of working time and the need to cut greenhouse gases and rescue the environment, means it is no exaggeration to describe video as ‘the communications medium for today.

Tim Vincent is a leader on the subject of Video conferencing and video conferencing equipment. For more information on this subject please visit http://www.ccomm.co.uk

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Federal Candidate Promotes Video Conferencing

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Federal Candidate Promotes Video Conferencing

Conferencing and collaboration technologies – audio, web and video – save time and money, and help organizations reduce their carbon footprints. We all know that. However during the campaign prior to yesterday’s national election in Canada, it has become an issue.

“We in Richmond should be working with YVR to develop a sustainability strategy, leading to an 85% reduction in overall emissions by 2040. All aviation fuel should carry both a regular fuel tax and the carbon tax, with higher taxes paid for high altitude and night flights – because their nitrous oxide emissions have greater negative impacts. Our government should be installing video-conferencing facilities in every community larger then 1,000 people by 2015, where meetings and conferences will be free of GST. As an elected MP or city councillor, I will commit to reduce travel costs (economical and environmental) by encouraging constituents to meet by video-link when unable to meet me in person.” So said Michael Wolfe, the Green Party MP candidate in Richmond, BC during a candidates’ forum on CKNW radio last week.

Not only is this candidate a proponent for the green aspects of Audio Conferencing versus air travel, but he also advocated national tax incentives to encourage businesses to increase their use of videoconferencing. Although his party did not prevail in the election, Mr. Wolfe’s comments – with which, by the way, the other candidates in the forum agreed – there is no doubt that this type of thinking and action will prevail in the not too distant future.

Early adopters can rightfully take pride in their organizations’ commitment not only to the real dollar savings in increased use of conferencing technology versus travel, but also to their significant contributions to a greener corporate world.

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Video Conferencing – a Consultants Perspective

admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:45:00 +0000

The video has been invested to the top for a while and finally the day has come. Here, Mike Entwistle, Managing Director of CCOMM Ltd., which began in the query area of the conference explained how the combination of green growth of the movement, improved technologies, lower prices and a new generation is ready and able to accept the means of video conferencing will be the essential tool for communication in the 21st century.

40 years ago, the video call took place, when AT & T introduced the Picturephone the 1964 World’s Fair in America. Seen as a fascinating curiosity at once, it never became popular and was too expensive to be practical for most consumers. At its peak, Picturephone service had only 500 subscribers and the service have disappeared in the mid-1970s.

Now, almost four decades later, the video is mature, with manufacturers like Polycom, Tandberg and size of the systematic sale of tens of thousands of units per year worldwide. Is it a growth market. In 2005, videoconferencing was worth about $ 1. 15 billion worldwide, according to Frost & Sullivan. Now, the market will reach $ 3. 1 billion in 2010, growing at a CAGR of 22. 1 percent. Another research firm Gartner is even more optimistic, projecting the video conferencing industry with a value of $ 12. 8 billion in 2011.

The success of YouTube and the emergence of media networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace has the video of users today and elegant modern tool online. Video overcome the barriers of distance and “cement” the current generation Y. Hundreds of millions of YouTube videos are watched daily, even organizations regularly posting their corporate videos on the site as a means of user information and generate a greater knowledge of the user. For example, companies such as Cadbury are fully accepting the new technology as evidenced by the recent ad with a drumming gorilla, who has won more than 1 million page views on YouTube.

All this activity, not to mention the pressure on the environment, was accepted as the video-conference that organizations of all sizes try to save time and reduce their emissions and carbon footprint. Environmental issues have highlighted the excesses of the travel company – not just airlines, but to say just one side of the county to another. For example, working with Northwest CCOMM forces, including police, Lancashire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Cheshire, which uses videoconferencing for weekly staff meetings. Police Lancashire Police covers a wide range geographically dispersed in the northwest of England and found it was losing an enormous amount of time, resources and money, while the officers drove for hours just to get to these meetings. Videoconferencing has always saved police, the travel budget to improve the overall communication and answered some of their “green” concerns.

Travel time is wasted, if organizations are looking for an alternative. This is not so much air-miles that are in demand these days, but the video credits and carbon miles as a necessary measure of “green.” With the reduction of the carbon footprint of growing importance to businesses today, video conferencing is a solution that can help achieve environmental objectives of the companies, the reproduction of travel, especially after the start managing finances to see the details of his “reality” of carbon emission rights.

According to Gartner research note, “Gartner recommends reducing the carbon footprint as a carbon target more sustainable long-term compensation (such as planting trees to offset carbon dioxide emissions), and video will a key element of this reduction strategy for many companies. ”

However, it is not only the ecological problems that led to the adoption of videoconferencing. Technological advances have made too many video conferencing more convenient and practical solution, less expensive to implement than before, and now offers a better quality on the desktop. Thanks to this evolution of video conferencing is no longer just the domain of multinationals. SME users also have difficulty running their own business without wasting time on travel are also potential users. That’s why video analysts believe will grow in coming years, driven by instant messaging (IM), collaboration, office and occasional use video conferencing more often as a click from the desktop.

As an integrator of video conferencing solutions, we are actually starting to see the television industry and earn more years of surveys throughout the year in our services and end user knowledge and understanding of technology has certainly improved dramatically. There are more myths about the videoconference. The organizations want to be able to use: No action video in which a technician must rely on the use of smoke and mirrors to make it work, but on the desktop, where the aid is “as easy to make a call telephone, “the key to integrated office software and networking.

In fact, video conferencing should be considered in isolation but as an element of real-time collaborative communication, including video, data and Web through partnerships with Microsoft, Cisco, Avaya, Nortel and helping to create efficient quality , high, more scalable solutions for professional users.

Many IT managers believe their organizations need to be a workplace “virtual”, in some cases more than 60 percent of employees working remotely from their supervisors. The increase in IP videoconferencing, either from the desktop or room to room, now offers an effective way to communicate with remote workers based on ISDN videoconference, with benefits estimated from 12-18 months for companies that replace ISDN video conferencing systems with IP.

Unlike the old perception of videoconferencing as expensive to implement and jerky view, the current IP desktop solutions are friendly yet flexible enough for someone who can connect at a conference, while in the car. You can even start with a phone call, and then “Add Video”. It’s a long way to booking a videoconference

The image quality delivered by videoconference also improved significantly, since, with high-resolution HD images, it is even possible to display products at the seams or defects in the circuit boards. The conference also increase ‘video’ of marketing in the manufacturing sector. Audio high bandwidth (22 kHz) is now the same quality that you expect to have in your audio system.

In 2008, organizations want to make a more natural partnership for the general staff can work in remote locations: at home, other offices in a large campus, or with business partners in their offices. Voice or video on your desktop, available to users, offers the prospect of any “snapshot” of cooperation every time the phone rings and not have to book a room for videoconferencing. This desire for immediate collaboration, combined with more efficient use of working time and the need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and save the environment means that it is no exaggeration to describe the video as “The media today .

Tim Vincent is a leader in the field of video-conferencing and videoconferencing equipment. For more information about this topic please visit http://www. ccomm. co. United Kingdom

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Federal Candidate Promotes Video Conferencing

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Why Many Families Are Installing Video Phones

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:19:07 +0000

I accept accounting ahead about the huge aberration video phones are authoritative in the lives of families, accompany and businesses all over the world. It is acceptable added accepted for every day families to accept to install videophones in their homes. The allowances of accepting a video buzz and acceptance video conferencing in the home are endless. In their best basal function, video phones let you acquaint with ancestors associates with a fresh akin of intimacy. In fact, never afore in history has the every day ancestors had such accessible admission to video conferencing.

When several ancestors associates accept videophones in their homes, they can anniversary allocution to anniversary added on the buzz while additionally seeing anniversary added eye to eye as well. Video technology bridges the ambit in a way that we accept not had admission to previously.

How can the boilerplate ancestors get pleasure video conferencing?

Video conferencing in the home opens up a fresh akin of advice amid families. First of all, it makes accepting blast calls a lot added fun! Anyone talking through a videophone can see the facial announcement of the being they are talking to. They are no best bound to aloof audition the accent of articulation of the being they are speaking with but they accept admission to a broader akin of communication. This agency they acquaintance a added akin of advice and intimacy. Videophones let you see the corners of your mother’s aperture about-face upwards as you acquaint her how abundant you adulation her, they let you see the action in the eyes of a adolescent back you acquaint them about the wonders of the burghal you are in, or they artlessly let you attending into your wife’s eyes and acquaint her how abundant you absence her while you are abroad on business.

Videophones are accustomed telephones that appear packaged with a few video features. You can use them artlessly as a blast to allocution to bodies that don’t accept videophones or you can videoconference with them. In fact, whenever anyone calls you that does not accept a videophone, the video awning on your buzz will go bare or you can set it to affectation a admired agenda photo that has been uploaded to the phone.

In advancing articles, I will analyze the assorted means that you and your abutting amphitheater of accompany can get pleasure approved video conferencing and advance abutting friendships alike at a ambit after it costing too abundant money.

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Why Business Video Conferencing Is the Next Big Thing

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:17:19 +0000

Today, abounding businesses are adopting the use of video conferencing because it brings abounding allowances to the organization. With video conferencing, businesses can save time and money. Also, it increases the adeptness of the advisers too.

One aspect of video conferencing that appeals to abounding businesses is the affluence of installation. Anyone who has a computer and a webcam can get pleasure this technology. You aloof charge to install acomputer application into your computer and bung in your webcam to alpha conferencing. You do not charge to shop for an avant-garde webcam. Aloof shop for a simple one and you are accessible to go.

Today, LCD monitors additionally become actual popular. With a few hundred dollars, you can get a huge and acceptable LCD adviser for your home or office. This makes it actual affordable for you to get a acceptable LCD and get pleasure conferencing with your colleagues or friends.

With the acceptance of video conferencing, the agenda apple is affirmed success. As added and added aspects of a business are handled through the computer, the adeptness to accept a affair aural account of the thought, will absolutely win out. With trains, planes, and automobiles actuality the competition, video is abiding to win. Who would not rather accept an important affair online, instead of a agrarian goose hunt for the aforementioned meeting?

Although it may seems like a ample advance for now, but in the continued run, you will absolutely acquire the rewards. So if you accept not try video conferencing, the time to try is now.

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