Benefits of Video Conferencing Include:

Meetings

• Enables the possibility to hold meetings that could not otherwise have taken place due to financial or time constraints

• Reduces travel time and expense

• Provides the means to conduct meetings on a more regular basis, or at a moment's notice, thus accelerating decision making and reducing time to market

Distance Learning

• Connects educational facilities worldwide for distance learning and employee training

• Enables visual participation of remote students

Collaboration

• Provide real-time information exchange

• Allow data collaboration

Telemedicine

• Facilitates remote diagnosis, allowing doctors to communicate with patients, examine data and review x-rays

• Facilitates home health care, enabling patients to be monitored at home via PC-based telemedicine systems

Telecommuting

• File sharing and whiteboards are likely to play a significant role in the adoption of video conferencing services for telecommuters

Legal / Law Enforcement

• Enables remote video arraignments

• Facilitates video depositions

• Allows remote testimony