A Video Conference (or video-conference, VC) is a live video connection between people in separate cities, countries and time zones for the purpose of communication or interaction across great distances and reduced costs. Videoconferencing allows people to communicate visually from anywhere in the world.

The Wikipedia definition of video conferencing is:

Videoconferencing is the conduct of a videoconference (also known as a video conference or videoteleconference) by a set of telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to communicate by simultaneous two-way video and audio transmissions. It has also been called ‘visual collaboration’ and is a type of groupware.
Videoconferencing differs from a videophone calls (i.e. Apple FaceTime) in that it’s designed to serve a conference or multiple locations rather than individuals.
With the introduction of relatively low cost, high capacity broadband telecommunication services in the late 1990s, coupled with powerful computing processors and video compression techniques, videoconferencing has made significant inroads in business, education, medicine and media. Like all long distance communications technologies (such as phone and Internet), by reducing the need to travel to bring people together the technology also contributes to reductions in carbon emissions, thereby helping to reduce global warming.

Uses of Video-Conferencing

• Distance Learning
• Sharing lectures with students at other schools and universities
• Job Interviews, and Media Interviews
• Receiving lectures/presentations from remotely located sites across Australia
• Conducting inter-company meetings between different offices and departments, in multiple CBD’s
• Secure Face 2 Face meeting on any mobile device with Video Conferencing Software

The Benefits of Video Conferencing

If you hold regular meetings involving a substantial amount of travel, your company and staff might appreciate the benefits of holding some of them over a video-conference link, instead of wasting valuable time travelling. Benefits include:

• Reduces Travel Expenses: Flights, Car hires, hotels
• Saves Time: Instant meetings!
• Increases Productivity
• Increases Collaboration
• Improves Communication
• Allows Multi-point Meetings Across Time Zones & International Boundaries
• Available as a video conferencing hardware or software solution
• Reduce your company’s carbon footprint

Video Conferencing Solutions

• Lease video conferencing equipment
• Buy Used Video Conferencing units
• Video Conferencing Software
• Video Conferencing Hardware
• AVer Video Conferencing Products
• LifeSize Video Conferencing Products

Which video conferencing solution is right for your business?

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