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We are living in a strange and unpredictable economy, and cost cutting is a top priority at just about every corporation in America. Many
of the businesses we deal with have offices and branches stretching from coast to coast and even around the globe. Some are spending millions
of dollars annually on Video Conferencing and seriously looking at ways to reduce the cost of this invaluable communications tool.
We've developed a Web-based Video Conferencing model that employs a high-end network-camera controlled by the remote user that reduces the
cost of Video Conferencing to about the price of a telephone call.
Web-based Video Conferencing is visually superior to the traditional model, uses existing bandwidth that has already been paid for but would
otherwise go unused, and can easily include employees who are traveling (or working from home) in on-site conferences through their PCs.
The snapshots above were taken by one of the systems and are a fraction of the size of the image that is displayed live on a large screen or
PC. The sequence of snapshots is: a longshot of the conference table; top right of the table; the lectern (imagine someone speaking); and to
demonstrate the power of the zoom lens, the fourth picture is a full-frame, un-retouched close-up of the pencils that appear as a dot at the
top of the first picture and as a tiny splotch of yellow in the second.
Up to fifty users can log on to the camera concurrently, and it is controlled (pan, tilt, and zoom) by any one of them. Based on price and
performance, this has been a huge hit with corporations. The cost of setting up a Web-based Video Conferencing room is roughly $2,500
(two thousand five hundred dollars), compared to the tens and tens of thousands for the traditional setup.
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