Business Applications for Videoconferencing

摘要

Videoconferencing is a real-time, interactive way of collaborative communication either as a point-to-point connection between two different locations or as a multi-point connection between three or more locations. Using this technology, remote sites can see, hear, and participate in meetings, training sessions, and a variety of other applications without the inconveniences associated with travel. With videoconferencing, you can also show and see documents, drawings, slides, transparencies, computer images and more, again, all in real time. There are many names currently in use for the tools that make up interactive video communication, including videoconferencing, video-teleconferencing, multimedia collaborative computing, desktop conferencing, and distance learning. Videoconferencing, however, is the generic term that covers them all. While not a panacea for those wishing to streamline such business expenses as travel, videoconferencing does offer an innocuous alternative to many of today's current business models.