Video Conferencing - A Checklist

What do you want?
Point to point - only two places at any time

Live broadcast - from one to many - see and hear

Broadcast pre-recorded - watch and listen - from one location to many

Multipoint - three or more sites with Q & A between any, sent to all

Multipoint - three or more - in addition to broadcast from each satellite to see and hear the sub-groups.

Free live session for later modification and distribution of registration

Person to person / s and videoaudio and data manipulation on the participants - for example, made the exchange of documents, drawings, with or without real-time editing and testing of changes.





Anyone who wants to communicate with video conferencing?





Only within your company

From your sister company / contractor / supplier companies

With customers

With your prospects





Frequency of use of the system





Ad hoc

Estimated use per year(Min / Max)

Weekly

Monthly

Quarterly Report





Mounting





Custom permanent installation - that a certain space

Desktop location / s - so office desktop PCs

Mobile "Roll-over" of the system -

off-site facilities necessary - is a dedicated video conferencing system





Options needed





Recording, editing and distribution of hard copy (CD / DVD)

Recording, editing and distribution of soft copy (webcast)

Live with direct links todesignated recipient / Groups

pre-recorded on one or more time zones Broadcast

Log in and saw and heard as

Several people in one or two (group videoconferencing group - the design team for example, the local board of directors)

Several participants with three or more sites







What are your current IT skills?





ISDN 1

ISDN 2

ISDN 30

LAN - Cat5 / Cat5e / Cat6

LAN - Fibre

LAN - wireless - Type?

WAN - Bandwidth?

VPN -Bandwidth?

Internet access, dial-up 56k

Internet access, dial-up 128K

Internet access, broadband 1Mb

Internet access, broadband 2Mb

Internet access, broadband 4 Mb

Internet access, satellite

Internet access, continuous fiber / cable link

T1 / T2 / T3 / T4 (aka DS-1 / 2 DS / DS 3 / DS-4)

OC-1 / OC-3 / OC-12 / OC-38





System - are considered the impact





Last Byte

Current capacity offers confidential and not used (max / mineach)

Intended use of bandwidth - no video

Contention ratio

Speed

Video quality - predominantly static (Talking Head - Yes / No)

Hardware at the point of view

Hardware at the point of transmission

Hardware to the distribution point





What to Consider





Budget

What do you currently allocate flights / travel and subsistence for years?

Write-off period for the cap

Lease Options

IT Infrastructure

cost structure and time of increased capacity andHardware Requirements

wireless inkjet printer Wireless Laser Printer Wireless Printer All in one