Tag Archives: Cisco Video Conferencing
2010
Reaching the Hearing Impaired Via Video Conferencing
Video conferencing has become a common tool in many businesses. While it can streamline communications, hearing impaired individuals have often been left out. This is a sizable group: more than 30 million Americans are deaf or hearing impaired. TANDBERG, now part of Cisco, has worked with companies, such as Deaf Link, to develop video conferencing services for those individuals, so this area is undergoing significant growth. One reason for the interest is that businesses need to be able to communicate with deaf and hard of hearing customers in order to comply with government regulations. For instance, the Federal Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 mandates equal access for individuals with disabilities.
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2010
Video Conferencing Changing the Classroom
Increasingly, educational institutions are seeing the potential benefits that video conferencing systems, such as TANDBERG’s T3 and T1 offers them. It is not surprising, then, that more than half (53%) of schools plan to purchase video conferencing technology in the next year, according to a survey by Cisco.
Educational institutions often tend to follow rather than lead the pack in regards to new technology. Consequently, it may be a bit surprising that many educational institutions have been busily trying to find ways to leverage video conferencing features to maximize use of their teachers’ time, reach remote students, and interact with fellow institutions located abroad.
Time is a valued commodity, and academic institutions would like to maximize this resource for their faculties. Increasingly, video conferencing is emerging as a way to increase their productivity. Video conferencing is being used for virtual office hours, so teachers and students can interact whenever necessary. Teachers have also been recording and archiving lectures, presentations, and projects that can be shared with students at any time. The Aachen University of Applied Sciences is one academic institution taking advantage of telepresence features to enhance the learning experience.
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2010
Telepresence Sparks Rise in Virtual Trade Shows
Cisco solutions bring new alternatives to trade show travel
Tired of jumping on a plane, staying in a hotel, and finding taxis when attending industry conferences? Wouldn’t it be nice to avoid the hassles and attend the meetings virtually? Well, that certainly seems to be becoming more possible. A growing number of vendors, including Cisco, have recently been focusing on helping event planning groups make their interactions more virtual through the use of telepresence systems.
Such moves are capturing the attention of show organizers. One benefit is they can more easily find speakers because experts no longer have to be at the show’s location.
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2010
Tablets Emerge as Latest Video Conferencing Platform
Heard about Apple’s iPad? Chances are you have. Since Apple’s introduction of the device in January, interest in tablet systems has skyrocketed. One ripple effect has been the emergence of these devices as the newest video conferencing platform.
Apple did a good job providing robust features for its system, but the first iteration of the company’s device was not geared to video conferencing—it does not have a camera. While the iPad could support one-way video connections, it would not mesh with video conferencing applications.
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2010
Video Conferencing Meets Social Networking
Facebook now has 400 million users, Twitter has 75 million, and LinkedIn has 70 million. Increasingly, companies are looking for ways to tap into the power and scale that these social networking tools offer and use it to streamline their own operations. One result is that these systems are starting to include video conferencing components.
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2010
Volcano Eruption Sparks Video Conferencing Opportunities
Companies everywhere are turning to TelePresence and videoconferencing solutions after the vast disruption to European and Scandinavian air travel this week resulting from the eruption of Iceland’s volcano, Eyjafjallajökull. Industry leaders and service providers have seen a huge increase in demand for video communications in light of these circumstances, and are rushing in to provide solutions that enable “business as usual.”
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