The PowerPoint presentation was live, and we used every piece of equipment in the room. We can write the videoconferencing equipment off with one trip. At NEC Electronics, some of the more immediate ramifications of videoconferencing occurred after the VAR's work was completed. Dropped telephone lines temporarily derail videocasts. Then there are the directorial aspects of videoconferencing.
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NEC was an unusual videoconferencing account for VMI because the client initiated the call and wanted to explore all of the leading-edge video technologies. In most cases, clients don't understand the potential of videoc onferencing until it is introduced to them. Tarrice says that he initiates 80 percent of the videoconferencing discussions with clients. But that's as it should be, he says.