Video Conferencing is defined as conducting a conference between two or more participants at different sites (locations) by using computer networks to transmit audio, video and data. As the two participants speak to one another, their voices are carried over the network and delivered to the other’s speakers, and whatever images appear in front of the video camera appear in a window on the other participant’s monitor.

Multipoint videoconferencing allows three or more participants to sit in a virtual conference room and communicate as if they were sitting right next to each other.

Videoconferencing Benefits

Meetings

• Enables the possibility of holding meetings that could not otherwise have taken place due to financial or time constraints;
  Reduces travel time and expense;
• Provides the means to conduct meetings on a more regular basis, or at a moment’s notice, thus accelerating decision making and reducing time to market.

Distance Learning

• Connects educational facilities worldwide for distance learning and employee training.
• Enables visual participation of remote students.

Collaboration

• Whiteboards, file transfers, and document / application sharing tools such as Hitachi Software’s StarBoard digital whiteboards and StarBoard software.
• Provide real-time information exchange, and;
• Allow data collaboration.