Video Conferencing and its Use in Business Essay by tink0224

This paper presents the history, pros, cons and uses of video conferencing. The paper shows that numerous benefits to both businesses and consumers are provided by video conferencing. For example, video conferencing reduces travel expenses, reduces the distance between separated families, improves working relationships and improves remote job interviews processes. The paper discusses how video conferencing is also proving an invaluable tool in industries, such as the legal, medicinal, and educational fields. It examines the potential problems which could occur with this new technology, as well as several challenges faced by the emerging video conferencing industry including bandwidth limitations, picture quality degradation due to compression and decompression and the level of preparation for presentations at meetings.