Why we need TelePresence?

TelePresence for short, is a better video conference "room" system with "HD video quality" and "1:1 people size".

From the "IP network" 's perspective, it is just another "bandwidth-hunger" application. Not that interesting to network workers.

However, from user's point of view, it is a very wonderful application! I list some good reasons for users to want such system.

Feasible and ready

TelePresence typically requires 4Mbps to 24Mbps of WAN bandwidth. Today such bandwidths are cheap enough for most of the businesses to afford them.

The HD's video quality is also well understood by so many consumers.

Easy to use

TelePresence today is not just the network video codec box. It's a whole "conference room": the TV screens, projections, microphones, speakers, furniture, lighting, and even the position of everything. If you install a new TelePresence room, yours would be almost the same as that in the above video.

You do not have to find each pieces to construct it yourself. In fact, few options are left for you to change elements of it.

Once installed, everything is fixed. Users do not have to adjust the camera position, lightings, nor audio setups anymore. You only have to sit in, and start the conference. Done!

In the old DIY-style conference room, you would have to spend tens of minutes only to adjust videos and audios, before each conference. What a waste of time!

Live facial expressions are finally acceptable in TelePresence

In traditional conference system, you can only see some vague videos of each other. You can identify the participants, but you cannot see clearly the faces, the expressions, and the body languages of them.

In TelePresence, you can see each other in 1:1 real size. Just as the name describes: as if you were present and in front of me!

Through TelePresence, you can deliver more "messages" to your audiences, such as your passion, your confidence, or your concerns. You can also see more truth from the reactions of remote participants.

[Side notes for network workers]

Then what is in it for me, as a network worker?

I believe TelePresence is a very straightforward "network readiness" live demo to those who are not familiar with network technologies.

You will need TelePresence, no matter you are network worker or IT decision maker!

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