January 5th, 2010 @ admin // 2 Comments
Companies, organisations or governments can save money, tax payers money, bottom lines, mileage allowances, work efficiencies and get true return on investments. They must absolutely accept the virtual option in 2010 and beyond through online meetings. So often touted by the so called and ever increasing large entities that are MS and Cisco, government bodies are typically directed for various reasons to buy into the employers within their country. Of course, employment and revenue is on the mind of every elected politician. The fundamental flaw in democracy starts here, politicians cannot get elected without funding, who funds the politician ? And so unified communications or “unfunded communications” (if you fund it) started. What a ridiculous waste of money and time this term and implementation causes. What smart phone battery or laptop truly supports voice and video over IP for any length of time? What software and what proprietary licences do you need to subscribe to if your organisation wishes to avail of these services ?
Open source video conferencing has been around for many years, notwithstanding the power of the flash plugin, why reinvent the wheel? – just upgrade your switches … get a little more bandwidth, even get a dedicated element to the management of your bandwidth, you have the kit! you probably have the network – web based, without the need for massive investment in servers, no need to buy anything else with the exception of a webcam and a headset.. how hard can it be to reduce your annual spend on meetings via travel?
Accepting our political leaders are not software savvy for the most part, their advisors are supposed to be. Do you need to install something ? #FAIL. Do you have to have windows for it to work ? #FAIL. Do you need propriety hardware for it to work ? #FAIL. The solution must be web based for future proofing and economy of scale. Bandwidth is the key, switches allow data transfer, everything else is down to your vendors “cloud” or in our case rackspace << a data center, why would your company take on more than you need to… why reinvent the wheel?
Tags: collaboration, communications, conferencing, cost, desktop, groups, meetings, online, savings, sharing, streaming, unified, video
Davina collins
6 months ago
If you didn’t have a demo of Cisco’s Telepresence
get one. It leaves standard video conferencing
in the dust !
admin
6 months ago
Hi Davina, thanks for your comment. I agree with you in some respects, Cisco has a major offering for the largest companies in the world. The only folks that can afford the offering are government departments and these corporations. Isn’t Cisco all proprietary too ? Every location needs their equipment for it to work right?? That is of course the strength of having a truly browser based solution. The last time we saw a quotation for a cisco implementation it was approx 250k euro per location.