Video Conferencing has come a long way since regular television sets and co-ax cables were used to set up a analog “video phone” connection in the early 20th century. The advance of IP networks and compression technologies has made it possible to communicate seamlessly with people across the globe, anywhere, anytime and on any device. Video communication has permeated virtually every field. Enterprises have been able to reduce travel with multi-location video conferences because improvements in technology has made it easy and affordable. Video Streaming has always been a challenge given the constraints on available bandwidth and computing power. However, current video streaming systems use compression technologies that eliminate most of these obstacles.Education has reached the remotest areas because instructors can easily set up a Video Straming Aplication with two way video links with students anywhere in the world. This has given rise to a range of USB Devices, Certified for Microsoft or Zoom.
Enterprises have greatly benefitted from the technological
improvements in Video Conferencing. It all started as large
expensive Video Conferencing systems specially designed for board
rooms. Senior Management and Directors could conduct video
conferences with others having the same system. Due to the cost
factor, such implementations were few and restricted to large
enterprises.
However, the introduction of SIP standards has
drastically changed the landscape. Today’s VC systems can talk to
each other over SIP standards, overthrowing barriers of brand and
vendor. Improvements in technology has not only shrunk the size of
VC systems, but also increased the video quality to HD levels.
Improvements compression technologies have enabled VC to reach even
small and remote offices on low bandwidths.
The benefits to
enterprises are huge. Reduction in travel expenses, reachability of
employees and better interaction with remote teams have changed the
way business is done. The world had already become flat – VC has
made the world smaller.
To deliver high quality education to students, most educational institutions invite eminent persons and experts
as their guest faculty. Normally, such lectures are given to packed audiences since most students want to
capitalize on the opportunity of learning from these personalities.
Colleges continuously grapple with the
challenges of insufficient seating space in the lecture hall and the inability to repeat the lectures.
Also the Gen Z of today, woulfd like to acess all lectures, from tthe place and time of their convenience.
This brings about a need control log each user acess, with time and dates.