In Roads to Telepresence Technology: Part 1

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The colloquialisms of conference vendor’s market leaders are digging new strands of technology models that stand to deliver sharing ideas on the existing video communication platform by bridging cell phones, remote desktops sharing and more such rich remote collaborated exercises encompassing anytime anywhere.

Advanced state-of-the-art video encoding configurations to enrich and revivify the distance education programs via two-way video communication channel enabling the primary hub and remote sites to attend, interact and engage interested peers for the absolute possibility of facilitating a high-value presenter based environ with dynamic pragmatic distance online education simulations. The enactment of a virtual classroom network and the enunciation of the core primaries delivering true-to-life video communications that convey immediacy to remote learning attributes and the reflection of the same level of enthusiasm and prospects for both the trainer and the trainee with the deliverables deployed by telepresence technology.

Telepresence technologies is in-roads to many more advanced technological marvels and are looking straight towards the integration of robotics technology with fully simulative telepresence environs based on latest 4G wireless networks that promises to bring about results beyond measurable propositions.

Telepresence intelligence has already been immersed with scientific research and applied sciences that allows scientists or subject matter experts to closely examine the details of their subject matter relevancy like establishing an instant remote connection with consultants, experts, businesses, educators and classrooms across the globe. The next generation telepresence robotics has already marked their presence by allowing people to travel into delicate areas and broadcast their video and data in real-time.

An out of the box study of telepresence technology usage for effective real time communication can be suggested with the telepresence exploration and research vessel for underwater study and education in addition to everyday communication aboard the CRV Nereid Explorer. Few of the next generation third party applications and tools that most businesses run today include image and document transfer, white boarding and annotation tools, mobile integration, health based information and more. They are the forerunners of telepresence based solution model wherein the impediments and emulates towards the apprehension of personal desktop and simulative visual communications as a part of a robust redundant unified communications strategy.

Conclusively, telepresence technology adoption is most valued for IT investment firms and remote facilities for global businesses related to human resources, legal and compliance, training and certification, executive search and recruitment, manufacturing and design are some of the few top variants who rely on telepresence solutions usage.

Part 8: Computer Based Conferencing: From SMB (s) to SME (s)

With this post we conclude on series of report on the aspects VOIP Vs PSTN modes of audio & web conferencing platforms by business of all dynamics from SMB to large corporations.

The discussions forthwith abet data collected with these surveys to permeate three primaries explicitly with the assessment of how corporate brands or business based entities like educational institutes, schools, language learning center, computer learning center and more in the same relevance paying monthly in the current arrangements of business relationship & product agreement for telephone-based audio conferencing amidst web conferencing features.

The three models of the forthwith discussions relate primarily as large enterprise cost per user, small-to-medium sized business (SMB) cost per participant & leader and cost of web seminars, web cast & web meetings.

The data of the survey points definitively and convincingly mileage to help businesses global & collaborated allies for profit & learning analyze the nature of organizational cost evaluations of average respondents who attend audio & web conference session.

For an average duration of 53 minutes in length with a cost of 4.7 currency per minute for the audio conference solely to calculate a total cost of $20.18 as the payable being signed every month on audio conferencing solely again by each conference participant and communication user.

Naturally, large enterprises tend to purchase the web conferencing licenses for each of their users, which are multiplied by the number of users to calculate the total monthly cost for a web conferencing session. SMB trends may relate the same process by an arrangement that would bill them for the active web conferencing licenses per user and participants or users who are solely using audio conference sessions. A comparative data as quoted by these giants like Citrix Online and Wainhouse Research house as well as ConferBlogs.WordPress.Com emphatically estimates $200 as the total cost for 10 participants participate attend each web conference on average for the results to be shaped in the mentioned order above.

Therefore, for the arrival of a total sum of $200 as the total monthly cost, where $200 can be multiplied by the number of web conferencing licenses purchased by the organization in relevance here to again totally amount a high figure of $2000 per month payable should an organization or firm chooses in the order of the following con-incidental expenditures. This is solely reported for web conferencing and not web casting for web cast is another matter in prime promising motion, for that too is farsighted in the days to come.

Interestingly, business conversations or conference conversations powered via computer based audio conferencing by SMB (s) is more relatively likely to profit with the roll out of reducing costs based on a higher per minute audio conferencing rates offered by your conference service provider as compared to the over one-quarter respondents who took part in this survey.

Credit: The credit for all the numbers, data & graphs shown on this post goes solely to the original report that have cited the report based on the survey conducted by Wainhouse Research and the role of ConferBlogs.WordPress.Com is the reporting of the same to users, visitors & customers.

Part 7: VOIP Vs PSTN Modes for Audio Integrated with Web Conferencing Dynamics

Historically the evolution of Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and IP telephony is nothing less than a revolutionary battle of tech allies that creates the rules to play the game of complex computing technology to bridge possibilities of communication and remote control. Remote control, a term relating definitive fundamentalism in the highest core for the persuasion of human mind control over things and matter much larger than the cosmic possibilities of life beyond the boundaries of the universe at large.

VoIP (VoIP) in brand representation for industry high relevance of core conduct matrix that creates and powers the business in relevance here and the merger of TDM technology with IP telephone composites the duo factors of a stage set for the acts of ace stars computer-to-computer audio calling Vs. computer-based audio conferencing.

The study of the environment that profiles the climate of computer-based audio conferencing and the merger of web conferencing features are notions of such powerful intents of positive relativism of core corporate brands determined by Citrix Online, Wainhouse Research, other such entities via surveys.

Compute the data of tech linguistics that facilitates knowledge on how organizations & firms & businesses pay for their audio conferencing sessions opposite web conferencing features in the multi blockbuster box office hit!

How organizations & firms & businesses & entities at large representing a collage of professionals associated for the same order of purpose and process with the switching of their current conferencing or communications arrangements as well as the ones who were using technology and communication obedience with the merger of computer-based audio conferencing usage.

How organizations & firms & businesses are paying & spending aggressively as we talk for conference sessions that are the definitions of organizational motto of profit and promise with the regression of communication & technology expenses.

How prospects or clients using conference technology and the amalgamation of technology solutions over their core business rituals to alms sustenance order of pristine adeptness in aiding abetment. The ultimate truth of the illuminating minds referred on the post dated 03 February 2011 titled “Virtual Conference Events”, who would not settle for anything & everything in life that are below at par the ultimate convincing powers of reasons, facts & positivisms in the acceptance of another conference service provider as a sales pitch here.

The believable reasoning triggers to propel your business & business-based profits as well as imaginatively aid promotion & climb up the organization ladder from your current association with your company is YOU - the one who is making the change with profit based business framework put in to effect in the order of the business imaginatively!

Credit: The credit for all the numbers, data & graphs shown on this post goes solely to the original report that have cited the report based on the survey conducted by Wainhouse Research and the role of ConferBlogs.WordPress.Com is the reporting of the same to users, visitors & customers.

Part 6: Current VOIP Conferencing Usage Trend

Part 6: Current VOIP Conferencing Usage Trend

We investigate further on audio conference usage evaluated by independent marketing research entity Wainhouse Research to report on the relay of the truth of computer based conference sessions by a lot of organizations summed globally who are already using computer based audio conferencing. They still reserves the freedom of expression in the vindictive verdict of using the same old audio conferencing solutions at a higher cost of per minute per meeting attendee model, for one primary sole reason – to be not attached to the device with a headset!

It is a strong statement to make without ascertaining facts and data and therefore the same is the clause of our purpose today as we Blog on the merger of accessing cost factors of IP powered computer based conferences in tandem with the more reliable domain of PSTN conference solutions connected via a network of Dial-in phone numbers.

The value and authenticity of the report is based on the industry based respondents who took part on the collation of the survey objectives paying an ongoing audio conferencing sessions for their brands on per minute cost basis at their current per minute cost. Of all, 1.7% are paying between 10 – 20 cents per minute mostly SMB(s), 20.3% paying 5 – 10 cents per minute and over 42% paying less than 5 cents per minute.

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A deeper perspective on these respondents’ data revels the fact that over 53.8% of large enterprises who are paying less than 5 cents per minute for their audio conference sessions per channel of per participant, only a third that is 33.3% of small medium business units are able to negotiate their rate solely because they want & care to!

Interestingly when we attach the reasoning in assigning the value of 3 cents to the factor of say less than 5 cents, the midpoint to the remaining two ranges variables is the range of what audio conference service users are paying real time for their conference communications.

Add amusement to realization that one third of these participants paying per minute model do not have a clue on what they are paying, which is between 3 cents to 5 cents.

For that matter, they do not even know the cost the organization they represent pay for the numerous audio conference sessions that they conduct everyday for business and profit. Nor they do care to know what the company is incurring as cost to these sessions snowballs to over half of all the respondent’s amounting to 50.3% as quoted by the author of these original figures of the survey report in contention for discussion here.

To prove point to reality, the same respondents when asked at the end of the survey and reporting of these ingenious motivating figures that correlates reality in a completely different perspective confirms to the consonance of the fact that indeed do not care what they are or the company is paying for the conferences they conduct! Almost the other entire half amounting to 54.9% illustrates the potential gravity of the factor for the need to concur these costs as liabilities pertaining to pay per minute audio conferencing representation.

We will discuss further conclusively on this subject with tomorrow’s post that assesses the audio conferencing pricing based on a PSTN network of per minute cost variables in contrast to IP based computer powered audio conference sessions.

Credit: The credit for all the numbers, data & graphs shown on this post goes solely to the original report that have cited the report based on the survey conducted by Wainhouse Research and the role of ConferBlogs.WordPress.Com is the reporting of the same to users, visitors & customers.

Part 5: Current Industry Trend for Audio Web Conference Participation

Computer Based Audio Conferencing: A Comprehensive Report

Part 5: Current Industry Trend for Audio Web Conference Participation

To firm an ever-convincing opinion on these judgments of conference notions and sizing the measurement of correlating necessity in the comprehension of audio conferencing cost when the same is in tandem with web conferencing usage. The same elite respondents where again presented with two key queries pertaining to their average association in their current web conferences and average number of web conferences that they attend.

Over half of them affirms assertively 60 minutes as an average quotient in their web conference durations and another two out of five amounting to figuratively 39.0% runs the web conference sessions fewer than 60 minutes and only one in ten amounting to 10.2% attends a web conference sessions that last longer than the quoted average of 6 minutes.

Upon assigning a variable value of 15 minutes in duration for a web conference session that runs less than 30 minutes and 120 minutes for those that run more than 90 minutes, the result is an average of a web conference that lasts 53 minutes.

The entire half of the respondents in contention here for the reporting of a comprehensive appraisal of IP based computer powered audio conference sessions with pristine experience of connectivity via a wireless Bluetooth device headset or a genuine wireless headset. 48.7% of these respondents affirm participation to at least 1 – 5 web conferences or similar events in a month.

Another 5% amounting to 21.3% participate in 6 – 10 web conference meetings or similar events and 12.7% in 11 – 20 and lastly 12% of them in 20 or more web conference sessions in a typical 30-day period starting from the day they started the first web conference. These comprehensive figures are in relevance to the more conventional phone based per minute pricing channel of dial in conference access numbers via a network of global phone lines bridge to a network of a superior conference bridge with multi channel dynamic porting features.

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Purposely associating a value of 25 meetings to “Over 20”, a more conservative value in the detainment of apprehending average web seminars that are held these days, the midpoint to the remaining two ranges, as the more conclusive arrangements reporting an average web conference sessions users use in a month or a period of 30 days.

Cohesively and dominantly, the range of 20 – 25 web conference meetings amounts to a ratio of 8.1 web conference meetings attended a month by “regular” web & audio conference users.

The following discussion is to continue further in the forthcoming posts where we will draw the conclusion on a comprehensive analysis and comprehension on the aspects of Audio Conferencing powered by a computer and IP telephony in place of the more traditional & widespread PSTN infrastructure.

Credit: The credit for all the numbers, data & graphs shown on this post goes solely to the original report that have cited the report based on the survey conducted by Wainhouse Research and the role of ConferBlogs.WordPress.Com is the reporting of the same to users, visitors & customers.

Part 4: Assessment on Audio Web Conferencing Cost Factors

Computer Based Audio Conferencing: A Comprehensive Report

Part 4: Assessment on Audio & Web Conferencing Cost Factors

As we gear in to motion for speed and the thrust for knowledge to propel thoughts in to actions, other prime benefits quoted by these survey respondents propagates the emerging truth of advanced computing technology and the rising trend of conference communication for the effective roll out of business strategies by corporate globally that guarantees the purpose & the profit.

The sole portrayer, the chief captivator of success in the adoption and adaptation of computed based conference solutions is the simple ability to schedule, connect and attend virtual meetings with more ease and relativism. The key prima de facto bridging audio conference conversations and web conferencing possibilities for the cohesive productive merger of organizational cost cuts, easier accessibility, less IT support involvement and greater maneuverability announces the arrival of computed-based audio conferencing and the increasing dependability of web conferencing computing components.

Coming back to the current discussion, our assessment and data compared so far have revealed round of $20 a month to be the most responsive market figure in terms of audio conferencing costs in tandem with web conference attires, which are billed separately.

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Moreover, these are figures collated from large enterprises where the cost factors are multiplied by the number of employees using web conferencing features while in discussion over the audio conference account. More cohesively and profoundly these web conference sessions are seat based audio conference accounts for large enterprise users where each account is billed individually.

Therefore, figuratively multiply $20 with the number of web conference users internally or externally within your organizations who are active users. For a large enterprise with say 500 active web conference users, the total conference communication including the primary product audio conferencing likely to be around an impounding $10000 a month.

Contrary to this, the functioning for an SMB based organization trend in the usage of audio conferencing services in amalgamation with web conference licenses for use while conducting or hosting internal as well as external meetings or web events is typically contradictory. The most accurate comprehension now shapes the persuasion of the cost borne factors in the roll out of web conference and audio conference call sessions for SMB’s will be by multiplying the total cost per respondent with the average number of participants in a typical regular web meeting.

The WR survey report and data so far has already sufficed the industry benchmark average of 9.9 web conference participants and therefore multiplying the average $20 audio conference cost per user per month with the rounding figure of 9.9 to 10 average web conference participants amounts the total cost of $200 a month for every host. Now multiply the per host total cost of $200 for ten host using individual audio conference account with web conference licenses amounts to high cost of $2000 a month.

Let us bring in an external tertiary factor to furthermore discuss the audio conference cost for a web seminar or web cast event generically will be a lot tougher than it seems as the profile usage for each host for such an event can vary widely. Therefore, we borrow some of the metrics & figures discussed above to compare a hypothetical scenario where an average hour-long seminar per day with 50 participants to extravagantly and assertively result the following:

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An assumption for the bottom line cost of say $2000 a month would undoubtedly escalate at a faster rate for each seminar that we are in notion here.

The survey reports that an average audio conferencing usage differs for different organizations and large organizations or enterprises, the decision for the roll out of conference solutions is made with a result of 46.6% by the IT department, followed by 26.6% decision makers pertaining from the telecom or communication department. For an SMB, the decision in the roll out of audio conferencing services as well as web conference licenses is arbitrated typically by the executive staff within an SMB organization figuratively amounting to 39.7%, followed by the IT department with 34.4%.

Therefore, to draw a definitive conclusion on the day’s agenda, departments related to IT and telecom within a large enterprise organization driven by a budget based aimed at reducing cost, executive staffers however from a SMB firm, would eye for the roll out of the conference communication channel for an incremental status quo factor of savings.

Credits: The credit for all the numbers, data & graphs shown on this post goes solely to the original report that have cited the report based on the survey conducted by Wainhouse Research and the role of ConferBlogs.WordPress.Com is the reporting of the same to users, visitors & customers.