Question: What company offered the first commercial videoconferencing system?
Answer: PictureTel Corp.

Question: What controls the conferencing while its active on the signaling plane?
Answer: The MC

Question: What is one example of what the signaling plane controls in a videoconferencing system?
Answer: endpoint signaling

Question: Where does the videoconferencing system manage conferencing creation?
Answer: the signaling plane

Question: On what plane does the MC operate?
Answer: the media plane

Question: What generates output streams from each endpoint?
Answer: The MP

Question: What technology has become more widely available and affordable?
Answer: High speed Internet connectivity

Question: What is an example of a personal videoconferencing system tool?
Answer: webcam

Question: What has made videoconferencing accessible to many?
Answer: The availability of freeware

Question: Videoconferencing freeware is widely available in what programs?
Answer: chat programs

Question: Videophone calls are different from videoconferencing in what way?
Answer: serve individuals, not groups

Question: What is an example of a videophone call program?
Answer: Skype

Question: What term is more used today to refer to calls between two units?
Answer: videoconferencing

Question: What are videoconferencing calls now more commonly known as?
Answer: a video link

Question: What is another name for videophone calls?
Answer: video chat

Question: In what decade did developers extend the capabilities of videoconferencing to more devices?
Answer: the 2010s

Question: What allows people in remote locations the ability to video-conference with colleagues far away?
Answer: Mobile collaboration systems

Question: What is one example of an application that videoconferencing manufacturers have begun to offer?
Answer: still image streaming

Question: What type of applications have videoconferencing manufacturers begun to offer?
Answer: mobile

Question: What is an example of a place that videoconferencing can be used today?
Answer: hand-held mobile devices

Question: What can videoconferencing offer students?
Answer: participating in two-way communication forums

Question: Who can benefit from two-way communication forums?
Answer: students

Question: What is a major barrier to videoconferencing between some communities?
Answer: language

Question: What is one example of how students can benefit from videoconferencing?
Answer: virtual field trips

Question: What is one experience that students using videoconferencing can achieve?
Answer: visit museums

Question: What company introduced the first device to help deaf people communicate through telecommunications?
Answer: AT&T

Question: What was the name of AT&T's videophone device?
Answer: Picturephone

Question: In what year was AT&T's "Picturephone" device introduced?
Answer: 1964

Question: Where was AT&T's "Picturephone" device unveiled?
Answer: 1964 New York World's Fair

Question: In what decade were more efficient ways of using sign language via video-telephony developed?
Answer: 1990s

Question: In what industry has videoconferencing become useful?
Answer: film

Question: On what film was videoconferencing widely used?
Answer: Frozen

Question: What year was the movie Frozen released?
Answer: 2013

Question: In what city were the songwriting team of Frozen located?
Answer: New York City

Question: How many months did the songwriters work on the movie via videoconferencing?
Answer: 14

Question: What is a video-conference also known as?
Answer: videoteleconference

Question: What does a video-conference use that allows communication in live situations?
Answer: a multipoint control unit

Question: What is a multi-point control unit?
Answer: call management system

Question: How does video-conferencing allow multiple parties to communicate with each other?
Answer: web-based applications

Question: How many locations can one use videoconferencing for?
Answer: two or more

Question: What is one area where teleconferencing could not be used?
Answer: telemedicine

Question: Who developed the first systems to transmit slow-scan video?
Answer: AT&T Corporation

Question: When was the first slow-scan video systems researched?
Answer: the 1950s

Question: What was the bit rate of AT&T's Picturephone?
Answer: 6 Mbit/s

Question: What was the bandwidth of AT&T's Picturephone?
Answer: 1 MHz

Question: What year did one the first community service usages of videoconferencing take place?
Answer: 1992

Question: What company helped in the creation of community service videoconferencing?
Answer: IBM

Question: What is the videoconferencing product that both IBM and PictureTel worked on?
Answer: PCS/1

Question: What does DIANE in Project DIANE stand for?
Answer: Diversified Information and Assistance Network

Question: How many years did it take for Project DIANE to grow?
Answer: 15

Question: What enables videoconferencing to connect three or more remote points?
Answer: Multipoint Control Unit (MCU)

Question: What is one type of MCU bridge?
Answer: IP

Question: In what way can an MCU be characterized?
Answer: the number of simultaneous calls it can handle

Question: What feature enables an MCU to allow for multiple parties to be seen on screen at the same time?
Answer: Continuous Presence

Question: Where can an MCU be embedded?
Answer: dedicated videoconferencing units

Question: In what one way can videoconferencing help a person?
Answer: money savings

Question: What technology can be used along with videoconferencing?
Answer: VoIP

Question: What is another use of VoIP?
Answer: telecommuting

Question: What is telecommuting?
Answer: work from home

Question: What is the percentage of people who use videoconferencing a majority of the time?
Answer: 54%

Question: In what decade was Internet video-conferencing made possible?
Answer: 1990s

Question: In what device was videoconferencing finally able to be used in?
Answer: desktop

Question: In what year was CU-SeeMe, a desktop-based videoconferencing tool, developed?
Answer: 1992

Question: In what year did the first public video-conference take place?
Answer: 1995

Question: What South African city participated in the first public video-conference?
Answer: Cape Town

Question: What is the software that performs audio and/or video compression?
Answer: a codec (coder/decoder)

Question: How high can compression rates go?
Answer: 1:500

Question: What is one digital network through which a digital stream can be transmitted?
Answer: IP

Question: What does POTS stand for?
Answer: Plain Old Telephone System

Question: What do POTS do?
Answer: convert the digital pulses to/from analog waves

Question: What is a common use of conferencing technology?
Answer: deaf Video Relay Service

Question: What profession utilizes videoconferencing technology to conduct online sessions?
Answer: teachers

Question: What is one way that videocalling can be used?
Answer: personal videocalls to inmates

Question: What is a common use of conferencing technology?
Answer: tele-medical

Question: What is one way that videoconferencing is useful?
Answer: real-time telemedicine

Question: What areas benefit especially from videoconferencing? 
Answer: Rural

Question: In what US state did a rural area use videoconferencing to help reduce the number of transfers of sick infants to hospitals? 
Answer: Ohio

Question: How far away was the hospital from this rural area?
Answer: 70 miles

Question: How much money did videoconferencing help this rural area save?
Answer: $10,000 per transfer

Question: In what European country has VRS services become well developed?
Answer: Sweden

Question: What is one of the reasons why VRS services are not in most European countries?
Answer: financing

Question: What European country is a leader in providing VRS services to its citizens?
Answer: Germany

Question: What country is a world leader in providing VRS services?
Answer: United States