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Desktop multimedia teleconferencing involves the use of several different
tools through the same computer interface but in separate windows on the screen.
These tools might include asynchronous text conferencing (email),
audioconferencing, videoconferencing, Web resources, and the collaborative
sharing of documents or applications by participants at up to five remote sites.
Such systems require highly specified workstations with sufficient memory,
power, and speed to handle multimedia applications (along with compressed video,
cameras, microphones, speakers, and digitizing tablets) and access to wideband
network capacity (ISDN at least). Current systems
are expensive and suffer interoperability problems. But the strong commercial
pressures in this market make it likely that lower-priced, reliable systems will
become increasingly available to distance educators and trainers, especially for
corporate training.
Desktop multimedia conferencing resources (external links)
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