The simplest form of videoconferencing is a point-to-point call, one person contacting another person via the Internet. This basic level of videoconferencing is similar to making a phone call with a picture phone. Multipoint videoconferencing occurs when three or more locations connect simultaneously, much like a three-way phone conversation only the logistics are much more complex.

There are times when your physical presence is seriously needed. But then, there's just no way for you to be there at the specified time and location of the meeting. So what do you do? You dial the person up to inform him you can't make it. The talk is significant, but it is improbable for you to be in 2 places at the same time. But that problem could now be conveniently solved by the utilization of video conferencing facilities. But what's videoconferencing? Video conferencing is an interactive mergence between 2 or numerous teams from different places utilizing the internet, video, and audio devices live.

Avistar Communications Corp.introduced C3 to provide video, voice and collaboration at the desktop or on the move. C3 uses dynamic network and bandwidth management technology to achieve this without requiring additional network capacity.

San Clemente, CA ? PresenterNet, provider of online interactive Web presentation applications, today announced publication of "The PresenterNet Online Learning Delivery Guide". This new publication offers detailed descriptions of online training methods currently implemented by PresenterNet users.

Business meetings may be held at any time, even scheduled without little or no advanced notice, whereas the old method of business travel required copious preparation and much advanced notice and planning.

In this book, case studies document how people are communicating via video conferences with broadcast quality reception. The authors detail how the proliferation of IP networks has driven quality improvements and cost savings in video and has forced service providers and equipment vendors to pay more than just lip service to their ability to deliver video.

In a world where terrorist attacks and changes in world economies have reduced such things as travel for business, pulling off international meetings can be a challenge. Videoconferencing is the solution and the technology is here today. The Internet, or the Super Highway, is the current mode of travel.

Cisco is not making friends among relief workers with its latest TelePresence ad. Apparently Cisco has been airing this ad on TVs in some regions of a relief worker using TelePresence to catch up with his folks back home.

Strong efforts from major companies like Cisco, Microsoft, and IBM to promote media-rich productivity tools are boosting the prospects for video conferencing, reports In-Stat.The driving factors behind increased adoption and use are technology, bandwidth, and convergence, the high-tech market research firm says...

Videoconferencing is a new technology that is quickly opening doors in the online world. International business is catching onto the trend and it is becoming more and more commonplace among both newly established not to mention, well-established businesses. Videoconferencing is well on its way to becoming more affordable for businesses with modest budgets. No longer is it the technology for the wealthy.