COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
EDUCATION‘THE COMPLETE COMMUNICATIONSYSTEM’ – VIDEOCONFERENCING + IWB
VIDEOCONFERENCING has great potential in education but the problemfor Polycom hasbeenhowtodemonstrate it. The company,whose British
base is in Slough, has opened amulti-million pound studio in the City to demonstrate how they can offer education and commercial organisations the complete communication solution. Recently, the organisation
which delivers video conference solutions to over 400,000 establishments around theworld, invited Technology in Education to visit this high tech communication centre and studio on the 14th floor of a London tower. It is in this office that
Polycomwishes to invite interested educationalists to see the benefits of videoconferencing at first hand. Perhaps themost amazing
property of their high tech studio is howsimple the equipment is to operate. Another seemingly startling aspect is that a camera in their
systemwill automatically followthe speakers round the table dependingwho is speaking at the time.
Bundles InNovember, Polycom
introduced two new videoconferencing and content sharing bundles specifically for education in EMEAwhich is business speak for Europe, theMiddle East and Africa. These powerfulHDvideo
andwhiteboard conference teaching tools are being
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offered to schools under the title of ‘Getting StartedWith Videoconferencing Education’. The bundles are either the
PolycomRealPresence Room HDX 7000 or Polycom RealPresenceHDX 8000 series telepresence packageswhich alongwith the newly announced PolycomUC Boards – which turn video display screens into virtual whiteboards – and the 50 PolycomTelepresence m100 software licences for personal andmobile videoconferencing froma PC.
The bundlesmake video-
conferencing and collaboration more easily accessible for schools that require high quality video communication systems, giving them technology to help remove the barriers of classroomwalls. These roomtelepresence
systems provide userswith high quality audio and high definition video communications fromlow bandwidths using standard-baseH.264 high profile technologywhich reduces bandwidth needs by 50%.
Benefits Often regarded as a
boardroomand commercial aid, Polycomis already proving a boon to a growing number of educational organisations in this country and around theworld. Education establishments
already enjoying the benefits of videoconferencing technology include the
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