Hello, everyone! This is a blog on the three whales of real-time communication: audio, video and web. Recently video, web and audio conferencing service have been developing rather rapidly. And web-conferencing of today has gone a way forward and is quite different to what it used to be when first appeared. It moved from being a forum or a message board to a complex phenomenon of live communication via Internet.

At present time, video and web-conferences are two definitions that are often interchangeable, as the time introduces its own amendments and technological advances. What is needed to start a web-conference? As I have already described it in the articles on the topics in question, one will need a PC, a broadband connection (the faster the connection, the better the quality of online communication), a camera, speakers and a microphone.

The minimum set requires a computer, connection and speakers. This is enough if you are into distance learning and in a lecturer, a kind of a silent receptor. Yes, lectures, seminars, all sorts of staff trainings and therapy sessions, interactive web browsing, business meetings and webinars are possible now with various numbers of participants involved and types of data exchanged.

So an online web conference gathers a number of people sitting in front of their PCs in different locations, probably in different countries, which are connected with each other, in a conference call. They can chat online, share images, they can see and hear each other and even make presentations using PowerPoint. They can exchange files and various documents. Usually, web conference software allows recording the conference in order to play it back again, which is a great advantage in case some participants failed to show up.

Though, web conference solutions promise real-time communication, in reality the image and sound transferred is a couple of seconds behind the actual ones. But still it’s a nice way for people at the opposite parts of the world to negotiate and talk real.

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