If a company is investing in video conferencing technology there are five main areas they really have to think about. Firstly, identify your users as it’s important to understand who will be enabled to use the technology. Look at what their job functions are as well as how IT literate are they. Be aware that they won’t all be satisfied with the same solution or devices too, make sure you have discussed all the possibilities before you decide on your strategy.
Next you have to know how these workers going to make use of video conferencing. Ask yourself will they be dialling in to team meetings, or delivering presentations and training? Will they be on mobile, desktop or in meeting rooms? It’s important to think about video as enhancing collaboration and then work out how this will fit in with your employees’ daily responsibilities.
From there, integrate your video conferencing with any existing unified communications structures. If you already have a BYOD strategy in place you’ll need to accommodate iOS, Android and Windows operating systems, as well as a range of smart phones, tablets and laptops, while if you are going to be providing devices think about making them video-compatible.
After that, it’s time to analyse the relevant network requirements as some video conferencing solutions can consume large amounts of bandwidth. While finally, you need to realise the importance of education as you have to teach your staff how to make the most of video conferencing whether in the office and at home or on the move.
Polycom offers a complete portfolio of high definition video conferencing solutions over internet protocol networks ranging from personal video conferencing solutions to immersive telepresence solutions.
Our immersive telepresence solutions provide a natural, ‘across the table’ experience where every meeting participant is shown in true-to-life dimensions. You’ll speak with and read the body language of others — just as if you were all in the same room.
In addition, our powerful HD solutions for room environments expand real-time knowledge-sharing and drive faster, more informed decisions. Then in terms of personal video conferencing, Polycom Personal Telepresence solutions seamlessly extend clear, HD video to home offices, mobile users, branch sites, and beyond.
We pride ourselves on the interoperability of our solutions, and you will be able to communicate with your customers and partners regardless of the solutions they are using. In fact, Polycom’s RealPresence CloudAXIS allows you to communicate with them even if they don’t have enterprise video conferencing. You can simply send them a link which opens the call in their browser.
“Integrate your video conferencing with any existing unified communications structures. If you already have a BYOD strategy in place, you’ll need to accommodate iOS, Android and Windows operating systems, as well as a range of smart phones, tablets and laptops”
Polycom’s longstanding partnership with Microsoft means that we have the largest range of natively integrated solutions (hardware and software) which will work seamlessly with your existing Lync deployment, whilst offering enhanced video capability.
Polycom delivers the highest quality video conferencing available at half the network bandwidth requirements of competing solutions. This means that more employees can make use of your video deployment simultaneously delivering a greater and faster return on investment.
For those in the Irish market ready to take the leap into video conferencing, be sure to speak with Videnda, based in Citywest, Dublin 24, which is the exclusive distributor for Polycom in Ireland.
Niall Dunne is territory manager Ireland for Polycom.
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