Videoconferencing reaches beyond boardrooms
Straight a few years ago, the videoconferencing market consisted primarily of high-end room-based systems or grainy, hard up-quality desktop systems that were more suitable for calling one’s parents than a business partner. Today, that’s changing as we see an emerging halfway ground, not to mention more options for higher-quality video on the low end of the market.
Cloud-based services, unstationary apps and unified communications are taking videoconferencing from the boardroom to line managers, sales pikestaff and other employees. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t challenges, particularly for companies that already have some videoconferencing infrastructure in put one's finger on.
Gerry Holmes, director of information technology at the Canadian Cancer Society’s Ontario set, has been holding back from widespread use of videoconferencing for fear of crippling the network. At this point, only about half a dozen employees (out of 500) do some prime videoconferencing over the Internet using Adobe software.
