Categories: Video Conferencing

Video Conferencing and the Road Warrior

The constant traveler was one of the reasons that Video Conferencing was invented. This role has been altered in a good way – now the road warrior is actually the jet-setter who cannot be tied to an office. Typically this person is the one who works sometimes from home, the local beanery, or during vacation!

You have to live your life, and you have to work – Video Conferencing lets you do both! Ad-hoc meetings are always a possibility with the limitless nature of Video Conferencing. Stop rescheduling life for work and work for life. Here’s your cake and here’s your fork…

What are my options?

Laptops, tablets, smartphones… choose your weapon. No matter what you have in mind, the Bring-Your-Own-Device movement makes communication simple. With the proper infrastructure, the End User has seamless connections.

The three main manufacturers offer distinct solutions – For a laptop or PC, you can choose a single user desktop client, such as the LifeSize SoftPhone. If you wish to incorporate your iPad, iPhone, Android tablet, and smartphone, you will need a more robust solution to deploy across the company.

The best portable solutios include the following: Cisco Webex Telepresence offers you a cloud-based solution so that users can log-into a host of devices based on the user and not on the endpoint, so Jane can use the same account on her iPad, Android Phone, and workstation; LifeSize has the ClearSea solution which will bring together an entire organization regardless of the device; and Polycom CMA offers management tools to make deploying and scheduling a breeze.

How to Choose?

Your solution lies in both your device preference and your user count. If you have 16 or fewer simultaneous callers, go for the LifeSize. Already have Cisco Infrastructure? Register your Jabber client to the server and keep your costs under control! If you run a Polycom shop, the free m500 client download is an easy fix.

So get out your tablet and get in the office – virtually, of course!

Want to know more?

Give us a call toll-free at 1(855) 820-8006 or email VideoConferencing@voipsupply.com today!

Andria D. Baunee

Andria is a former VoIP Supply Video Conferencing Consultant. Andria is regarded as a Technology Mixologist. Using pieces and parts from various schools of thought, she approaches niche applications like a video conferencing puzzle. Andria enjoys finding ways to bridge the gap between "it can't be done" and "why didn't I think of that?!"

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  • This is another contributing reason behind the immense popularity of web video conferencing. It is getting more popular among jet setters every day. Not just PCs, but smart phones, tablets are also getting popular as a web video conference device.

  • Great article. Polycom is the best video conferencing provider. Apart from Polycom, there are various video conferencing service providers such as Accutel, Vidyo, Vidtel, etc. which one can use to have quality video conferencing. One can also have web / video conferencing combined services, by deploying on premise web –video conferencing appliance such as RHUB appliances.

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