after rereading... in brier If you are talking about video conferencing and H.323 some of your options are polycom Tanberg lifesize or other similar companies or products.
If you are talking about web conferencing and H.120, some of your options are webex adobe connect live meeting I think yugma is a web conferencing solution. there are others i cannot remember, but there is a ton of them. video conferencing good video and now adequate pc resolution with HiDef, excelent pc resolution. web conferencing bad video and adequate (sometimes) audio good pc resolution if you are going with web conferencing you will need a server to connect 3 or more people together. Plus it is a good idea to have the server setup so they can test their audio before hand. I would not rely on the video. With video conferencing you can enable (for a price) up to 3 sites on specific systems. Advantages of video conferencing. hardware specific, the most you have to worry about is somebody disconnecting the system to watch soap operas on the TV. Disadvantage. high initial cost for hardware. adequate pc resolution, but with more money and buying a HiDef system, this can be overcome. need for higher bandwidth, 768K upload is our minimum, 1.5M recommended. need to configure the firewall, but it is not a problem as long as your firewall guy knows something. advantages of web conferencing can run on any pc or probalby Mac more flexible can run on lower bandwidth if you are not concerned about video disadvantages not good video sometime bad audio have to deal with whatever is on the users computer, weather bug, viruses, domain, etc. You can use netmeeting or other software solutions to connect to a h.323 conference, but most bridge operators do not want to bother with troubleshooting your pc. Our bridge has h.120 turned off so they dont have to deal with too many pc problems. We use polycom systems and the users seem pretty happy with it and our customers are starting to use it a lot more. We also are running most of our conferences over the commodity internet. The universitty has a MGC100 polycom bridge that we use for multiple sites. We also use Adobe connect, (it used to be called breeze) for some training and meetings. We have the university server to use to setup multiple sites. andy100 At 03:31 PM 9/30/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Whoops. Yep, H.323. Fingers working faster than the brain... > >Yes, this setup would greatly simplify things! > >-----Original Message----- >From: Kurt Buff [<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:27 PM >To: NT System Admin Issues >Subject: Re: Video Conferencing > >That would be H.323, I believe, and yes, you are correct. > >If it were me doing this (and it is, I just haven't gotten to it yet), >I'd put the Polycom unit in a DMZ with it's own public IP address, and >just open it up. Turn it off when not int use, and pay for the >encryption license on both ends. > >Kurt > >On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:22 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +1 > > > > Unless you have a newer firewall that understands H.232 traffic, > it will not > > play nice with the newer Polycom stuff. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mike French > [<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:14 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: Video Conferencing > > > > How about www.polycom.com > > > > Used them at a client site, had good results. Just make sure your firewall > > will play nice with whatever you choose... > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: Steve Ens [<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 2:07 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Video Conferencing > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ > <<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> > > ~ > > > > > > > > > >~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >~ ><<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> > >~ > > > > > --------Andy-Ofalt---863-3449------405-Ag-Admin-Bldg------for more information go to http://ict.cas.psu.edu/Contacts.html ---------- My little blurb to eat up bandwidth and make your mail box even larger +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The real problem is that IP, a connectionless protocol, was never developed to be the universal protocol. ATM was developed to serve that purpose and failed. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
