Audio Conferencing Service Basics
Audio conferencing services facilitate voice-only communications between dispersed groups. Teleconferencing and webcast services differ in terms of capabilities and costs. Services often include: audio conferencing, web conferencing, video conferencing, and system integration. Web Conferencing is, very simply, a meeting, conference or seminar that is held over the World Wide Web. Web conferencing can refer to audio, video or text-based conversations and are conducted in real-time.
Meeting participants do not need special audio conferencing equipment and may not even require the assistance of an operator. Web conferencing services use telephone lines or Internet connections to enable participants to share documents or view presentations. Applications include project management, distance learning, and financial reporting.
Face-To-Face Technology
Also with web conferencing every participant will need to be online, which means everyone would need a computer and access to the Internet. If the conference is audio web video conferencing, it will have to be a high-speed connection. While web conferencing is usually more expensive, the fact that infinite amounts of data can be transferred and immediately reviewed easily outweighs this factor.
Audio conferencing can be used for group work when a small group of students is assigned a team project. They would meet via the audio conference bridge at scheduled times to complete their work. The project work can be presented by video, audio, and computer conference depending upon the content.
Smooth Communication
Once the conference attendees have connected to the bridge they may be required to enter their security or identification number. Once this is done, audio communication is established between the parties. During the time that the audio connection is established, the conference attendees may also be connected to the Internet using a web browser with an HTML converter plug in.
At the time a conference attendee calls into the conferencing bridge, he or she also provides the IP address either to a live person who enters this information manually, or through touch-tone into an email processor. Once all this information is entered, the processor in the audio conferencing bridge compiles a list of all conference attendees including their IP addresses.
Possible Glitches
Audio conferencing is the battlefield upon which the control for the data collaboration services market share will be won. “This opportunity is truly a single-stroke market-share maneuver for the buying company,” stated Herb Levitin, the President of Powercom in Santa Barbara, California. “The buyer benefits from owning and controlling a targeted customer list, rich in usage of data and audio conferencing revenue, to integrate and market new high margin data collaboration services, while simultaneously decreasing their competition’s market-share.”
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