As technology improves, large organizations can look forward to cutting travel costs and uniting global operations via computer video feeds. Telecommuters won't have to worry about missing an important meeting because they were out of the office. But DVCs are beginning to have an impact in other areas as well. In education, distance learning is becoming commonplace. A student can attend a class at the University of California in Los Angeles without leaving the East Coast.
Agencies can train employees right at their desks.
DVCs are gaining wide acceptance for collaboration between doctors in geographically distant medical facilities. The security industry has discovered DVCs in a big way. A low-cost DVC can be installed with simple videoconferencing software, giving a remote security department a video and audio feed that captures images on a computer rather than a tape and does it in real time. DVCs and video-streaming technology have found a solid home on the Internet. As important as data line considerations and camera specifications are in making DVCs work for you, the cameras are useless without the right software.