Usage Next-generation communications technology employs existing infrastructure, reduces business travel. Service providers and manufacturers recognize the bottom-line benefits of expanding video capabilities and usage. Meetings between individuals in several locations can occur without travel expenses or downtime. An individual in one location can present material immediately and simultaneously to a large group at a different site or to many people in their offices. New employees can receive training independently as soon as they arrive on the job.
Personnel can access current news items as events unfold.
Service areas can be extended as distance education capabilities bring classes to an online audience or technical support directly to the customer. Until recently, bringing this effective tool to an organization on an enterprisewide basis involved installing a new infrastructure or exhausting network resources. Today, by taking advantage of the unused spectrum that is available on the standard twisted-pair wiring that currently provides telephone service, government agencies and commercial entities are incorporating video into the way they do business. Video transmission occurs without tying up telephone lines or interfering with the network. One company that produces both the hardware and software for video delivery systems is Objective Communications Incorporated, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.