Web 2.0, streaming video makes the internet surfer more sophisticated and the expansion of internet marketing, audio and video services are today's hot items. Often, along with audio exchange, audio conferencing involves video conferencing, so that people can see each other and communicate better because they can observe each other body languages also. Audio and video conference also added extra value to business. It helps in cost reduction and drastically improves the service level agreement of the performing organization
Instant Messenger programs from Yahoo, AOL and MSN are the simplest cost effective way for video conference. It is gaining popularity in business houses and student communities. Most of the conference service companies specialize in one or two services, like audio, video, web, or data.
Communication companies are putting lots of effort and fund to deliver more feature rich audio and video compression program. Codec and intelligent signal processor chips compressed the audio and video information into small packets by sampling. These digital information packets transmitted over the Internet or dedicated lines. Transmission of these small packets requires less bandwidth and thus reduces over all bandwidth cost. There is a marked improvement in quality of services for audio and video services in last couple of years.
A typical audio and video conferencing set up requires camera and large television or monitor. Many organizations use audio and video conference as part of their regular weekly meeting. A 1-hour meeting with video conference between teams across different geographies has helped several teams to achieve target. Even you can share Microsoft power point and excel during a video conference because data transfer is also possible with latest conferencing facility. The biggest benefit of web and video conference is it helps you to observe one another's non-verbal language, which is essential for any meeting.
Here are some advises that you can take to ensure that your next video or web conference is a great success.
(1) You should communicate minimum bandwidth requirement to all participants
(2) Check the cameras before the actual video conference.
(3) Ensure the availability of headphone, microphone before the actual program
(4) Provide all access information
(5)Complete a trial run all sites one day before
Planning and preparation is most important for successful video conference call. Due to highly competitive and evolutionary nature of the video conference technology, it is necessary that you keep yourself always up to date on all aspects of video conference.
