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  • Videoconferencing – About This Technology

    The “About This Technology” section provides a general overview of the concepts and terms behind Video Teleconferencing.  This section will also look at what it takes to deploy and support VTC products in the field, with additional information on vario …

  • Videoconferencing – Technology Overview

    Videoconferencing (VTC) was a relatively static field for numerous years—a handful of large manufacturers produced a limited number of videoconferencing codecs and infrastructure components that were built around the H.323 and SIP standards, while the …

  • Videoconferencing – Deployment and Support

    The TTAC recommends working with a professional videoconferencing (VTC) specialist when deploying and supporting videoconferencing equipment.  Should an organization decide to implement and support their own videoconferencing equipment, having a traine …

  • Videoconferencing – Standards

    Technology Standards – What Are They? A technology standard establishes a uniform way to engineer and develop technical devices.  By standardizing the many different methods and functions in technical systems or devices, interoperability is simplified. …

  • Videoconferencing – Resources

    Many of the resources that are available on the topic of videoconferencing applications and platforms are manufacturer-specific and focused on how to support or implement their various products in your environment.  We have gathered together some of th …

  • Videoconferencing – Product Assessment

    The “Product Assessment” section of the video teleconferencing toolkit looks at key information driving our assessment process and decisions. We include an overview of our tested products, a description of how we performed functional and quality analys …

  • Videoconferencing – Tested Products

    The products that TTAC assessed, chosen as representative of H.264 &SVC products and consumer-oriented & business-oriented products, consist of the following: Polycom CMA Desktop implements the H.264 standard for video encoding, but does not in …

  • Videoconferencing – Testing Process

    Testing videoconferencing equipment can quickly become an unwieldy process.  Numerous manufacturers have developed diverse product lines that utilize a range of technological standards, all of which may meet an organization’s needs to varying degrees.  …

  • Videoconferencing – Testing Results

    All Videos From The Toolkit This is a playlist containing every video recorded during the course of TTAC’s evaluation.  Additional video playlists further down the page include subsets of this larger list of videos. All Videos With Packet Loss This is …

  • Videoconferencing Software Overview

    VTC software continues to evolve as computing capabilities increase, high-speed connectivity is made more readily available, and standards for compressing, transmitting, and decoding video improve.  Through this evolution, however, several marked diffe …

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