Rich media is a way to truly add value to business meetings, personal meetings, classrooms and business to consumer communications. It uses a combination of voice, interactive video, streaming video and data sharing to achieve a level of communication, understanding and productivity that is simply not possible with voice or video on its own. The effective deployment of rich media applications will make companies more competitive as they share knowledge effectively, be more productive and enhance decision making. Educational institutions can offer more effective classes, attract more students and reach higher levels of educational achievement. Businesses can develop new ways of attracting and retaining customers.
Service providers can bring added value to existing or planned visual and voice services.
Delivering rich media applications reliably over the real world network environment poses some formidable challenges. Copyright 2000 Accord Networks. All rights reserved.