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How to
Book a Video Conference
We can
provide the tools that will make your next conference a success
To reserve Visual
Technologies' video conference facilities, please provide the
following information:
- The day, date, start and end time that you would like to reserve.
- Let us know the company or location with which you would like
to connect, providing a contact
name and telephone number. Visual
technologies will confirm your conference with the
other site
and arrange a pre-conference test.
- Reservation Form.
Visual
Technologies will help you locate far-end video conference sites
We are affiliated with a number of public access video conference
room brokers, over 3000 locations worldwide. We can find a far-end
room location for you, usually in the city of your choice, and
probably less than 30-60 minutes drive in more remote locations.
A search fee is commonly charged.
VTC can
reserve bridging services for multi-point video conferences
Many video conferences are point-to-point, two-site conferences.
But for those conferences of three or more sites, bridging facilities
are required. A bridge is like a hub that allows multiple sites
to see and hear each other, usually the site that is speaking
at any one moment; but they can be set up for viewing in continuous
presence, like "Hollywood Squares", where all sites
(up to five connected) can see each other at the same time. Bridge
services commonly charge $50-60 for hour per site.
Supplementary
accessories available for your professional presentation
VCR Recording/Playback, Document Camera, computer scan converter,
slide to video converter, auxiliary cameras, phone add-on capacity,
and a full compliment of audio visual accessories.
Video
conference at your place of business or a public meeting facility
ISDN telephone service is all that's required to video conference
"on the road". Visual Technologies can set up portable
video conference and display equipment for you on-site
at your location or at one of several meeting facilities in the
region (OnCenter, Turning Stone Casino, Craftsman Inn,
Sheraton
University, The
Marx Hotel and
Holiday Inn
Liverpool Hotel). Whether as a matter of convenience or for sizable
conference group meetings, on-site service may be your solution.
ISDN lines must be configured for video conference use, and installation
of new ISDN service may take 3-4 weeks.
What
is ISDN?
When you pick up your telephone, you hear a dial tone…you
are connected to a network of switched, "plain old telephone
service", an analogue telephone network. When you dial a
number, the call goes through a switch, which sends it on to
the telephone at the number you dialed.
ISDN stands for Integrated
Services Digital Network, and is also a switched network, but
of digital service instead of analogue service. The network carries
digital (digitized) information, hence its use by many companies
to transmit computer generated data, as well as high quality
digital audio and video. Depending on the information carried,
the lines are configured in a particular way, important to know
because lines used to carry data would probably need to be reconfigured
for video conferencing use.
For on-site video conferences,
ISDN lines must have a "S Package" configuration. To set up
our equipment we would need the following information, available
from your telephone service/bandwidth provider: SPID numbers
and switch type - they should have this information on file.
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