Slash Your Travel Costs And Boost Productivity With Video Conferencing

Since video conferencing quality and reliability improved in the 1990s, the popularity of video-conferencing has grown and grown as an efficient way to bring people face to face in the working environment.

Saving money

Not only can it bring colleagues and clients together, it can also be used for professional training or talks, so doctors or lawyers for example don’t have to travel to your office, and charge you for the privilege. Video conferencing also has the benefit of reducing the carbon emissions from all that travelling.

Types of video conferencing

Three main types of video conferencing are available:

Dedicated systems - which have all the components required in a single piece of equipment.

Desktop systems - add-ons to normal PCs and laptops, converting them into video conferencing devices.

Web RTC platforms - in which a meeting can be accessed via a URL provided by the meeting organizer, and software downloaded to enable the camera and microphone.

Do I need it?

If you are thinking about a video conferencing system for your business, you need to think about several questions. What are your needs? Do you have meeting with small groups or large? Does it need to sync with the systems of external partners? Do your laptops and desktops already have webcams? If so, you might only need to subscribe to a video conferencing service. If you don’t have good audio or video equipment already, that may be worth investing in. Or if you will be holding large meetings, a room-based solution with large HD monitors may be the way to go.