Similar improvements have made mobile video practical, using digital mobile phones. Many businesses think that they have to spend a lot of money on Video Conferencing. Multiple ISDN lines and high end cameras cost a fortune. This may be appropriate for the largest companies, but even they are looking at cheaper alternatives, say for mobile sales people. SCA sell low cost internet video conferencing packages from 149 .
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We have just started to use Firewire technology. This enables a high speed 200Mbps network which is 20 times faster than normal networks, and will go up to 1.6Gbps. Firewire will be built into high end computers in 1998. We envisage a Firewire camera on every networked computer, and Firewire linking them. We call this FireNet, the ideal Intranet.