A Brief History :
In recent years, video-conferencing more and more actively used in a variety of areas: education, medicine, business. Its advantages are obvious, and therefore the number of users of this technology is constantly growing. But with the advent of the global financial crisis changed everything. IT budgets of many companies and organizations has been reduced to the minimum necessary - the acquisition and support of computer equipment and office equipment. On the introduction of new technologies of speech is not going. Especially if these technologies are expensive, as video. After all, for anybody not a secret of the fact that the cost of servers, multipoint video conferencing is calculated at least tens of thousands of dollars. However, practice shows that it is not to abandon the introduction of modern information and telecommunication technologies is not worth it. Often, instead of the traditional solutions can be found and used much more economical alternatives. For example, in the case of video-conference link they can become a system based on PCs and software servers. I will tell you about a similar problem in one of the organizations.
Problem :
It all started with an article about the video-conferencing, which fell into the hands of the head of our organization. In detail the advantages of this method of communication - improving communication with employees, reducing travel expenses, etc. to talk about them we were not going, because this topic has been said a lot, and our task today - an analysis of practical rather than theoretical sides of the issue. Following this, the Internet had been "unearthed" a few publications on the use of video conferencing. After getting acquainted with them and some "digestion" read head was announced the following problem: realize the possibility of "video messaging" director with a number of senior staff of the organization;
arrange video links between the two conference rooms, located in different buildings of the organization, implement the technical possibility of "video conferencing", implement the ability to remotely connect to the system of video-conference-communication of staff on assignment in other cities. To complete the presentation of these tasks must be at least briefly describe the existing information system of the enterprise. Thus, the organization has three buildings, two of which are located close to each other and have common telephone and computer network. The third building is on the other end of town. Access to the corporate network from it is carried out as needed via the Internet through a VPN-channel.
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