The United Kingdom's minister of state for the environment Phil Woolas paid a virtual trip to Australia yesterday as he used telepresence technology to speak at a Sydney conference.
Videoconferencing vendor Polycom has a new Australia and New Zealand managing director, with incumbent James Anderson unexpectedly flagging his departure in the next month for parts unknown.
Western Australia's Disability Services Commission (DSC) has flagged plans to implement a state-wide videoconferencing system to facilitate better staff collaboration.
The local arm of mining machinery group Joy Global is close to completing a corporate telephony refresh, a move taking place in the context of a wider international push to consolidate the group's ICT resources.
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IT organisations must pay close attention to the readiness of the underlying network infrastructure to ensure the highest level of availability and best possible end-user experience. Additional reading: VoIP Essentials
The HDX4000 is one of Polycom's premier products in their video-telephony range, while it's a beautiful machine featuring great quality video conferencing, it's priced to scare.
The latest generation of videoconferencing systems supports high-quality MPEG4 video, prefers IP to ISDN connections, and costs you less than a couple of business-class tickets to New York.
If high-end systems are too expensive for your videoconferencing needs, and low-end setups just don't do the job, here are a few solutions you'll want to get face to face with.
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