Introduction

In this chapter we will discuss in some detail most of the commercial video call software solutions (solutions that have cost) currently available. In this chapter we touch on 24 commercial video call software solutions; I know most of the more popular solutions and so if we missed one or two solutions they have a vertical application or they are not widely used (but of course send me an e-mail and we will take a look at the solution for the Web site or the next edition of this book). In Appendix B we list all the software video call solutions together alphabetically so that you can compare them all together versus our breakdown by section. Appendix B also contains the free solutions as well.

Now we will try to make sense of the plethora of solutions that exist in the commercial software video call space so you can start to select what you need for your particular needs. Since there are so many solutions, as in the free solutions, we somehow need to divide the solutions into a few categories so that we may better compare or classify them for an easy comparison in their focus area. We have divided the solutions into two main areas: Free Video Call solutions that we covered in Chapter 6 and those that are Commercial Video Call solutions those solutions that have a fee or cost associated with them. Commercial solutions may also have a free option, like SightSpeed for example, and charge...