VoiceCon Conferencing

Posted on May 14, 2008 by zeacom

One of the headline presentations at VoiceCon, Orlando in March was by Al Gore, talking up the environmental benefits of remote conferencing over air travel. 

Cisco’s ‘Telepresence Meeting’ solution is by all accounts the next best thing to being there.  Mind you, at roughly US$300,000 per unit, people may opt to pay for the plane tickets, at least in the short term.

At Zeacom we’re not yet convinced video conferencing offers a better ROI than audio conferencing. Our conferencing application sits on the desktop or mobile so it’s available to everyone, all of the time, and at minimal marginal cost.  The critical success elements to running a remote meeting are to know who has joined (or left), and dial in others mid meeting.  And as our calls takes place across multiple timezones, some very early and some very late in the day, there are some factors in favour of NOT being able to see the caller at the other end of the line…

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One Response to “VoiceCon Conferencing”

  1. Arjan, on July 21st, 2008 at 3:12 am Said:

    Totally agree with these points. All you want with audio conferencing, is the ability to control the call just like you can with video calls. It’s the control functions and ease of use that I appreciate. Not so much the fact that I can see who I’m talking to.

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