Real Time Collaboration discussions, web conferencing, audio and video conferencing, futures
Working for MSFT in the Live Meeting group (web conferencing) I spend alot of time discussing Video Conferencing with customers. The more I use video conferencing the more I start to question the value of this technology when applying to meetings. I can understand the importance of seeing a presenter of an executive webcasts, but if they are presenting data its distracting and causes the audience to lose focus. The better value I see is for the presenter to see the attendees video. Then they could adapt their presentation based on the audience's expression. As far as desktop video goes, I lose 30 minutes of productivity preparing for a video conference (comb hair, shave, nice shirt, etc.). Still pictures that can be staged and re-used are better. Maybe the better strategy is not to mix video with data conferencing since its too difficult to focus on both. With the bandwidth expense of video I don't see enterprise adoption happeneing anytime soon. What's more important: your CEO getting to Seibel to view the sales reports or Johnny IT having a video conference with Billy Sales? Maybe IP v6 is the answer, until then most should keep the video traffic on dedicated links.
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