Remote Meetings
Feature-rich Connect Conferencing appliances support all types of users and conferencing needs. The vignettes below illustrate Connect Conferencing solutions for a number of corporate scenarios.Remote Meeting Scenario
Challenge: Conduct a design review meeting with an offshore development company.Telephony environment: Mixed TDM/VoIP
Background: Softlinks, based in the U.S., has outsourced part of its software development to the Hydev offshore development company in India. Now, Softlinks is ready to review a design proposed by Hydev.
Conference Participants:
- The Softlinks R&D team, located in the California Softlinks office
- The Softlinks QA team, located in a different building but part of the California Softlinks Office
- The Softlinks product management team, located in Dallas, Texas
- Hydev developers, located in Hyderabad, India
The Connect Conferencing Solution
The R&D team leader in California scheduled an integrated audio/web conference via Outlook. Invitations were sent to all participants. At the scheduled conference time, all conferees log into the web conference and dial into the audio conference bridge.Softlinks employees, in California and Dallas, dial in using VoIP over their corporate network, while Hydev employees dial over the PSTN and are routed to the audio conference via a T1 connection to the Softlinks corporate PBX.
Over the next hour, Hydev developers present their designs, which their R&D team leader uploaded to the web conference server in advance. They use annotations to focus conferee attention on specific aspects of the design.
Bottom line:
Cost to Softlinks: Free!Because Softlinks employees used VoIP audio over the corporate network, there was no charge for the audio or web portion of their conference.
Cost to Hydev: The cost of the call into Softlink’s PBX.
