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
