- Point to Point – two locations only at any one time
- Broadcast Live – from one site to many – watch and listen
- Broadcast pre-recorded – from one site to many – watch & listen
- Multipoint – three or more sites with Q&A between any, relayed to all
- Multipoint - three or more – plus broadcast from any to satellite sub-groups as a watch and listen.
- Live with session taped for future edit and distribution
- Person to person/s with
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audio & data manipulation across participants – e.g. sharing documents, drawings with or without live edit and audit of changes made.With whom do you wish to communicate by videoconferencing?
- Only inside your company
- From your company to sister/ contractor/ supplier companies
- With your customers
- With your prospects
Frequency of system use
- Ad hoc
- Estimated use per annum (min/max)
- Weekly
- Monthly
- Quarterly
Installation type
- Custom built static installation – i.e. a designated room
- Desktop location/s – i.e. from the office desktop
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Mobile “roll-about” system - - Off-site facilities required – going to a dedicated videoconference facility
Options required
- Record, Edit & Distribute by hardcopy (
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CD/A Compact Disc (or CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. The CD, introduced in 1982, is the standard playback format for commercial audio recordings as of mid-2006. An audio compact disc consists of one or more stereo tracks stored using 16-bit PCM coding at a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz. Standard compact discs have a diameter of 120 mm or 80 mm. The 120 mm discs can hold approximately 80 minutes of audio. The 80 mm discs, sometimes used for CD singles, hold approximately 20 minutes of audio. Compact disc technology was later adapted f
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DVD) - Record, Edit & Distribute by softcopy (Web cast)
- Broadcast live via direct links to named recipients/ groups
- Broadcast pre-recorded across one or more time zones
- Log who watched and listened and when
- Multiple persons at One or Two (group to group videoconferencing – e.g. design teams, board to local
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management) - Multiple participants at Three or more sites
What are your current IT capabilities?
- ISDN 1
- ISDN 2
- ISDN 30
- LAN – Cat5/ Cat5e/ Cat6
- LAN – Fibre
- LAN –
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wireless – type? - WAN – bandwidth?
- VPN – bandwidth?
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Internet access, dial-up 56k - Internet access , Dial-up 128K
- Internet access , Broadband 1Mb
- Internet access , Broadband 2Mb
- Internet access , Broadband 4 Mb
- Internet access ,
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Satellite link - Internet access , permanent fibre/ cable link
- T1 / T2 / T3 / T4 (aka DS-1/ DS-2/ DS-3/ DS-4)
- OC-1 / OC-3 / OC-12 / OC-38
Impact on your system – to be considered
- Bandwidth load
- Current capacity used & unused & reserved (max/ min for each)
- Planned bandwidth use – excluding video conferencing
- Contention ratio
- Speed
- Video quality – predominantly static (talking head – Yes/No)
- Hardware at point of display
- Hardware at point of transmission
- Hardware at point of distribution
Points to consider
- Budget
- What do you spend currently on flights/ travel/ accommodation per annum?
- Write-off period for cap ex
- Leasing options
- IT infrastructure
- Cost and timescale of increased capacity and
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hardware -if required
