Videoconferencing is a technology that enables interactive audio/visual meetings with to sites worldwide via high speed IP networks or telephone lines. Videoconferencing systems employ a "CO-DEC," which COmpresses audio and video signals into digital data and then DECompresses them at remote sites. The core of The University of Lethbridge videoconferencing system is a Tandberg 6000 and also includes Access Grid (AG) technology.
Videoconferencing can be "point-to-point" (between two sites), or "multi-point," (linking several sites together simultaneously). The system at The University of Lethbridge can connect to 4 sites simultaneously and "bridge" both IP and ISDN calls in the same meeting.
Videoconferencing enables you to meet with your distant colleagues quickly and easily, and at a fraction of the cost and time involved in travel.
Videoconferencing uses include:
- Research meetings
- General meetings
- Formal Presentations
- Project Coordination
- Informal Work Sessions
- Recruitment
- Alumni Relations
- Question & Answer Sessions
- Public Relations Briefing
- Distance Education
