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6th March 2012

Cut your fuel bills with satellite video conferencing

Motorists are ?up-in -arms? this week as the price of fuel hit an all-time high. Spurred on by the continuing crisis in Syria, a weak Sterling to US Dollar exchange rate, and a rise in the price of a barrel of oil, beleaguered motorists are counting every penny.

While consumers were hit hard, it?s the business owners who will really be feeling the squeeze, especially if their staff are busy criss-crossing the country going to meetings.

So as budgets tighten and prices keep climbing, how can hard-pushed business people stay in touch with their remote home workers, remote offices or important customers? There is an answer, and you don?t even have to leave the comfort of your office?video conferencing.

Satellite video conferencing ? a truly cost-effective solution

Video conferencing is nothing new ? the technology has been around for years. And it?s cheap too ? the ability to hold PC based video conferencing is now built in to nearly all modern PCs and laptops, making it easy to introduce into almost any situation with the minimum of set-up costs.

Many companies and home based businesses tried video conferencing but later abandoned it due to the poor quality of the services over most fixed line broadband connections. As with every other form of digital communication, video conferencing has gone hi-definition (HD). With HD?s superior quality sound and imaging a meeting can cross continents and still feel like everyone is actually in the room, but HD?s demands in terms of data throughput are even higher.

The problem has been that traditional fixed line broadband products in most homes and small businesses (like ADSL) have a very limited upload speed, typically between 300-350 kbps. This isn?t enough to provide consistent, high quality colour video and voice conferencing.

Satellite broadband based video conferencing using solutions like Tooway get round this problem because even the domestic variants of the system have a much higher uplink speed, typically up to 4 Mbps.

This means state of the art video conferencing packages work brilliantly facilitating video conferencing at remote or rural offices with none of the grainy, jerky picture you would get from a typical ADSL domestic set-up. The latency is so low with modern satellite broadband solutions (typically the same as a mobile phone voice call) that there?s little delay in audio delivery either.

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While it may be nice to go out on the meet?n?greet trail, video conferencing offers a far more cost and time effective solution to modern business meetings than spending 4 hours stationary on the M25. Time saved avoiding travelling can be re-invested in other work and projects meaning staff and managers are more productive and less stressed.

Nowadays not only does the technology exist to enable you to see everyone at once via a split-screen display, but for that crucial contract or meeting you can even incorporate PowerPoint displays on a head?s up monitor. Decision makers and colleagues can see presentations in all their digital glory.

It boosts your green credentials, too. By not taking to the car and heading off down the motorway to see a client, you?re obviously reducing your carbon footprint considerably. In today?s environmentally conscious age, this can help sell customers on your business over competitors.

Video conferencing is also great for webinars, and can also be a cost effective training tool, particularly if you need to pass on best practice techniques to outlying staff.

With satellite communications providing ever better links across the globe, video conferencing is seeing a renaissance in popularity. It can enhance the employee/employer relationship too, as workers feel they are getting more opportunities for a bit of ?face-time? with their boss. In a more integrated workplace where good relationships across the board are crucial, video conferencing is helping to create a better, more productive and more sociable environment.

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Source: http://www.toowaydirect.com/2012/03/cut-fuel-bills-with-satellite-video-conferencing/

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