Digital Signage Webinar
Sending Content to your screens
27th February 2012
1pm – GMT

We would like to invite you to our digitalsignage.NET webinar on 27th February at 1pm. During the webinar we will show you how digitalsignage.NET works and what it can do for you. Register for your place here, we hope that you can join us.

digitalsignage.NET is a cloud-based digital signage application that allows you to send your message at the right time, to the right place, to the right audience, ensuring an accurate and targeted communication.

The webinar will teach you how to:
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& Send your files to your screens in just a few minutes.

 

Desktop Video Conferencing costs start from around £100 a user/license.  A Video Conferencing system can cost anything from £2,000 at entry level to £20,000+ for an integrated system.

Expensive compared to what?  A photocopier?  A few international flights?  A Car?  It is better to ask whether it is cost effective.

Feedback from companies using video conferencing proves its worth:

• Teleplan recovered their initial investment costs within 8 months.
• RAL calculated that with every new Video Conferencing facility they save £400k a year in travel costs.
• PepsiCo UK recoup initial investment costs within the first six months of use.
• Safestyle UK say the travel savings alone make the investment worthwhile.
• Riverside were doing around 1.9 million business miles a year – with the use of video conferencing they have been able to significantly reduce this.
• RIBA Enterprises use their Video Conferencing systems 6 hours a day, every day.

Polycom’s ROI tool is great for calculating the expected ROI for your business.

Take a look at a real life example, where a client produced these figures in his consideration of implementing a Video Conferencing project.

Take a look at previous posts about Video Conferencing:
What is Video Conferencing?
What Equipment do you need for Video Conferencing?

From the desktop:

A camera, microphone & speakers or a headset, internet access and your pc or laptop either loaded with Video Conferencing software or access to a hosted Video Conferencing service.

OR an executive desktop Video Conferencing system with an IP or ISDN connection.

 

From the meeting room:

Each site participating in the Video Conference will require, as a minimum, a camera, a codec, a microphone, a speaker, a monitor and an IP or ISDN connection.  The camera and microphone capture the image and sound, the codec converts the video and audio into a digital signal, encodes it and sends it out.  The codec at the other end decodes the signal and distributes the video and audio to the monitor and speaker.