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Video conferencing has advantages over e-mail
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To answer the question in the unit log on how video conferencing has advantages over e-mail, bulletin boards and other ways people can communicate in the business world, we will have to look at each one in detail and then come to a conclusion. Video conferencing Video conferencing allows people to conduct face to face meetings with people in another part of a building or even another part of the world, without any one leaving their desk. Video conferencing was expensive to use at one point due to people having to hire expensive equipment and rooms to use when having a conference. Because of this people had to leave their normal place of work, as the equipment was not available to many people this made it very time consuming. As computers have become more advanced people don’t need to hire equipment as most desktops can now be used to have a conference. Too use a desktop video conferencing system you also need in addition to a PC: · Video Compression Card · Sound Card · Video Camera · Specialist Software The advantages of using video conferencing are: · Reducing travel and hotel accommodation costs · Making meetings more productive, since computer and paper documents can be sent rapidly to members of the meeting screens. · Allowing people who normally work from home to stay at home yet still take part in meetings. The main types of desktop video conferencing systems are: Vivo Software Vivo 320, Intel Proshare, Picture Tel LIVE PCS 50 and AT&T Visitum 1200. Electronic Mail Most networks have electronic mail facilities, local area networks (LANs), which are based at a single site, or wide area network (WANs), which are widely dispersed and may be based around many sites. Electronic mail or e-mail as it is known enables messages letters and other documents to be sent from place to place electronically rather than through the mail. E-mail is sent via a service provider like freeserve, cable and wireless etc. The e -mail is sent by the sender who composes the e-mail they want sending and then types in the recipients address.
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