Benefits of Conference Calling and VOIP
Video Conferencing
What do you wish to achieve?

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 video & 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 PC
Mobile “roll-about” system -
Off-site facilities required – going to a dedicated videoconference
facility
Options required
Record, Edit & Distribute by hardcopy (CD/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 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 – wireless – type?
WAN – bandwidth?
VPN – bandwidth?
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 , 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 hardware -if required
James Hunter works for Edric Audio Visual,
a premier provider of video conferencing solutions in the UK.
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