TABLE OF CONTENTS We have covered everything about personal videoconferencing and now it is time to touch on what is available for the business environment. So, what is the difference between what we already discussed and business videoconferencing? Business videoconferencing is personal videoconferencing on steroids, with the cost and features to go along with it. Business videoconferencing is the Ferrari of videoconferencing solutions. These systems have much better quality and are designed for serious videoconferencing needs. They are often good enough to think the people are in the room next to you.
We will not go into too much detail about business videoconferencing, because that is a book in itself. If you are interested in learning more about business videoconferencing, check out the book, Videoconferencing: The Whole Picture, by James R. Wilcox. The main point we want to get across in this section is that there are a couple of leaders in the business videoconferencing space and they have just about every feature you might want or need in a business videoconferencing solution. Another point is to avoid ISDN systems if you are starting from scratch, because it is pretty much dead technology, though it is still widely used in the corporate world. There are better IP-based solutions with bandwidth being far cheaper than when ISDN ruled the data world.
The main thing to keep in mind about business videoconferencing is that it is high-end, expensive, and focused...
