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[ 2006-06-03 13:19:11 ] - kishan
# Did you ever imagine that you could actually talk to more than one
person using your phone? Well, conference calls allow you to. This
means you and your friends can communicate from different places at the
same time, and even listen to each others voice without having to put
one on hold. Now with the invention of video conference you can even
look at each other while talking.
Telephone conference:
A conference call is a telephone call where you can have more than one
person listen in to the audio portion of the call. This is so designed
that you can also talk during the call, or the call can be set up so
that the person you called merely listens in to the call but cannot
speak.
Conference calling can be very useful for remote business meetings. To
use conference calling, your network needs to be able to provide this
service, and your phone should be able to support it. You may also have
to add this service to your subscription. In conference calls you can
call the people you want to talk to and add them to the call. In some
cases the participants call in to the conference calls either by
dialing a conference bridge, which is a special kind of telephone that
can take multiple calls, or you can do so by using a special telephone
number set up for this purpose. This is a very good way of socializing,
as you get to meet a lot of new people. Conference calls are mainly
used by businesses. By paying some extra charges, you can avail a
three-way calling service where you can add a second outgoing call to a
call already connected at the same number.
Video conference:
Video conference is one of the greatest achievements of
telecommunication technology. This allows two or more locations to
communicate via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously.
It is called visual collaboration and is a special type of groupware.
The technology behind this is digital compression of audio and video
streams in real time. Codec which is coder/decoder performs the
compression. Up to 1:500 compression rates can be achieved. The
resulting digital form of 1's and 0's is then further subdivided, and
then transmitted through some network like ISDN or IP. Audio modems are
used in the transmission line that uses POTS or the plain telephony
network in video telephony, as it converts the digital pulses to or
from analog waves in the audio spectrum range.
The other components which are needed for video conference are:
Online conference:
A web conference or online conference, unlike a phone conference, has
visuals. Web conferencing can be a useful tool in your own work. You
can conduct meetings at any time where everyone can participate equally
just like in a conference room meeting. You can exchange architect's
sketches, storyboards for a new advertising campaign, a graph of sales
figures, and even medical x-rays, with everyone viewing the same thing
at the same time. In a web conference, every participant would be able
to see what you are showing at that moment. Another benefit is that you
can pull and share any document on your computer into the conference
anytime you want to. You can easily demonstrate a website or any
software, or show slides through a PowerPoint presentation, as if your
colleagues were sitting in your office. And while doing this, you and
the other participants can simply talk with each other as you would in
an ordinary phone conference.
Communication made easy!
Everybody wants to keep in touch with people they associate with,
anywhere in the world. Phone conferencing, video conferencing and web
conferencing have made this possible and have made the world smaller,
thus reducing the gaps between people. Thanks to these technologies,
communicating with anyone anywhere in the world has become so much
easier!
About the Author
Paul MacIver is a contributing author for Information Spring and writes articles on a range of topics. Visit the Conference Calls website to read more about Conference Calls, Web Conferencing and Video Conferencing.
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