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[E285]Equipment For Video Conferencing
by Kevin Saunders, Kev
Alongside Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong, Singapore is one of the Four Asian Tiger economies. Rated by a World Bank IFC report as the most business friendly economy in the world, Singapore is host to many multinational corporations employing thousands of foreign workers. For these reasons an efficient and robust communications infrastructure continues to develop.

To enable swift and clear communication Video Conferencing is hard to beat, and in Singapore where there are solid network facilities it is a medium whose adoption continues to grow. Video Conferencing uses ISDN, or more commonly TCP/IP to enable real time audio and video meetings between global locations.

The connection itself, the video meeting or video link, provides the immediacy that email cannot, and the face-to-face connection that a ?phone call cannot. For someone doing business in Singapore, Video Conferencing enables meetings, conferences, interviews and work-groups with counterparts in any part of the world. Because the economic climate is in a state of flux this level and quality of communication is more important than ever.

It's also essential that video conference providers make their services easy to find, book and use. For this reason it makes sense to use a supplier with clearly listed locations and pricing. Some providers go one step further and offer an online option to view a particular studio's diary, so that you can check availability and make a booking/enquiry there and then. This means that you can manage your video meeting from end-to-end without having the uncertainty of a dropped booking.

To summarise, if you want to communicate clearly and succinctly with your commercial partners use Video Conferencing Singapore looks set to be an economic world power for the foreseeable future, and communications technologies are a fundamental part of that.

  • 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 , a premier provider of solutions in the UK.

    Article Source : Getting It On Video

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