Video Conferencing

IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (Sametime) 3.1, with more than 9 million users, is the market-leading instant messaging and Web conferencing solution for business. Sametime provides presence awareness, instant messaging, and Web conferencing. This paper describes how to leverage the Sun Solaris 9 environment as a stable and scalable platform for Sametime 3.1. tech news

This paper based on interviews with numerous content providers, content recipients, and content brokers who utilize two-way, interactive videoconferencing as a means of enhancing students' educational experience. It is also based on its authors' respective experience and involvement in distance learning technologies. The paper's focus is on the primary and secondary school levels because these are the grade levels in which the greatest amount of new, ground-breaking activity has been taking place recently. The paper is intended for those who have installed, or are thinking about installing, interactive, two-way videoconferencing. tech news

This paper explores how the consolidated purchasing of Web-based conferencing and collaborative solutions can address certain challenges faced by the enterprise. This white paper describes how this medium typically gets deployed in the enterprise, and how IT organizations are moving towards ownership and consolidation of web conferencing in order to maximize efficiencies, economies of scale, and return on investment (ROI). Web conferencing offers opportunities for departments, business units, and enterprises to meet their objectives while "minting" cash through calculable ROI. tech news

The Los Angeles Unified School District is responsible for 830 schools and more than 600,000 students throughout the L.A. area. The District's goal is to provide excellent primary language instruction while hiring and training new teachers, and to avoid the disruption created by continual traveling for training and meetings. They implemented a desktop videoconferencing network to bring students and teachers with a common primary language together, right from their desktops, without the need for travel between schools. The Gardena Complex Schools within the L.A. Unified School District is the first cluster to implement the First Virtual Communications video collaboration technology. tech news

This paper examines how companies use Microsoft Office Live Meeting to recognize both immediate cost savings and ongoing benefits, due to enhanced workforce productivity, which help generate additional revenues. Businesses consistently achieve these benefits due to the trustworthy service technology that Live Meeting provides - and from Microsoft's commitment to continuing innovation and integration with other products. tech news