Video conferencing: good for international work!
by V.E. on February 28th, 2007
filed under ppp
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Cisco Systems, Inc., is a worldwide company that provides businesses with video conferencing, secure networking, VoIP (“Voice over Internet Protocol“), wifi (“wireless fidelity“), and more. Since it’s a worldwide company and business happens across the globe, it seems reasonable to have video conferencing abilities so that a partner in England (while you’re in Los Angeles, for example) can still “attend” a meeting. One of their products, the Cisco Video Portal, “uses standard Web technologies to deliver live Webcasts and on-demand video to [a business's] audiences.” I’m okay with video conferencing in principle–perhaps it’s even a good thing because it forces everyone to realise that everyone else is a person, too. However, I’d lament having to wear business dress in my own hotel room just to look good for people on the other side of the world.
