Archive for the ‘Telepresence’ Category

Web conferencing guide

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Web conferencing is a fantastic way to cut your travel costs and maximize your productivity. There is nothing worse than getting stuck in traffic queues trying to make a meeting that probably lasts some 30 minutes. To make matters worse then you have to travel through the traffic again on ...

Teleconference protocol

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

If you are joining a teleconference then there are a few things to consider that will benefit yourself and others. Below is a list created by Choregus to help reinforce standard teleconference protocol. Don’t turn up late Turning up late is bad and you will struggle to catch up on the discussion ...

Telepresence technology costs

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

The take up rate of telepresence in the serviced office industry has been extremely slow, mainly down to the huge cost involved. The major contenders are Polycom, Tandberg, Cisco and HP and all of which have found it incredibly difficult to sell the new technology in large numbers. This is not ...

How a telepresence can be cheaper than a video conference

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

One of the problems with increasing the usage of telepresence technology is the high cost of the units. There is an initial capital outlay for the unit plus additional expenditure on servicing and network administration. An average unit can cost around £150,000, with servicing costs of about ...

Is telepresence technology over priced?

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Telepresence has been difficult to sell because of the very high price of the technology. The main providers in the market HP, Cisco, Polycom, Tandberg and Teliris have found it difficult to sell large quantities of the new technology.

Easynet to launch hi-spec telepresence service

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Easynet is set to become the first UK serviced office provider to offer a fully managed telepresence service. Telepresence is an advanced form of video conferencing that allows the meeting participants to see life size, high resolution pictures of each other. Up until now it was only available by ordering ...

Telepresence suite survey

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

As telepresence is becoming more of a buzz-word around the serviced office industry at the moment and meeting rooms are being sized up for potential use, we thought that we would create a survey to see what people thought about the technology. Please fill it out so that we can ...