What Are the Differences Between Web and Video Conferencing?
Web Conferencing: Share documents, presentations, and collaborations with people in the same city and around the world. Take advantage of the power of the Internet with web video conferencing to host web meetings without leaving the office.
- Chinese name
- online meeting
- Foreign name
- Web Conference
- Brief introduction
- Share documents with people in the same city and around the world
- Explain
- Multimedia conference platform based on network
- Web Conferencing: Share documents, presentations, and collaborations with people in the same city and around the world. Take advantage of the power of the Internet with web video conferencing to host web meetings without leaving the office.
Web conference entry definition
- The network conference system is a multimedia conference platform using the network as a medium. Users can break through the time and geographical restrictions to achieve face-to-face communication effects through the Internet. The system uses advanced audio and video encoding and decoding technology to ensure clear voice and video effects. The powerful data sharing function provides users with rich whiteboards, web page synchronization, program sharing, speech synchronization, virtual printing, and file transfer. The conference auxiliary function can fully meet the needs of remote video conferencing, data sharing, collaborative work, remote business, remote training, and remote stock trading, so as to provide users with new and efficient communication channels, effectively reduce the company's operating costs, and improve the enterprise Operational efficiency. Web conferencing is also called remote collaborative office. It can use the Internet to share data among multiple users in different locations. Network video conferencing is an important part of network conferencing. According to the degree of software and hardware requirements of the conference, it can be roughly divided into four forms: hardware video, software and hardware integrated video conference, software-only video conference, and web version video conference.
- Hardware video conferencing has the characteristics of good audio and video effects, high stability but high cost and difficult maintenance. It was mainly used in government departments and multinational enterprises in the early days. With the rise of software video conferences, it has gradually been replaced by software video conferences.
- The integrated hardware and software video conference combines the advantages of hardware and software, but also has the characteristics of relatively expensive and difficult maintenance, and the application range is not wide.
- Software and web-based video conferencing The current mainstream trend of video conferencing is also one of the future developments
- Network conferences have completely broken the geographical restrictions, so that people in different places can achieve real-time conference communications, and can solve problems anytime, anywhere, reducing travel costs and increasing productivity. Users can no longer be tired of traveling for meetings between companies and exchange meetings with customers, and they will not miss important meetings due to business trips.
- Web conferencing has the advantages of perfect data, audio and video transmission, and comprehensive conference management. It provides interactive presentations, chat, technical and customer support, and distance learning.
- Using web conferencing, users can share all applications running on a computer with other people participating in the meeting; they can use text-based co-discussion while communicating privately with individual members of the group, and can also record the contents of the exchange; You can use the whiteboard function to draw or organize charts or display graphical information for the participants; you can also use the file transfer function to send files to other participants in the meeting.
- The web conference will digitize the analog signals of the color full-motion video images collected by the camera, together with the audio analog signals input by the standard microphone, encode and compress them and send them to the transmission line according to the international standard communication protocol. At the same time, the same digital signals received from other endpoints are decoded, decompressed, restored to video and audio analog signals, and then sent to the local monitor and speakers.
Product features and cases of web conferencing
Web conference features:
- 1. Simple function, but not simple, easy to use, no training required, get started quickly.
- 2. Light client startup, fast, efficient, stable and reliable
- 3. Support large-scale, multi-party and remote network conferences.
- 4. Support various data formats: sharing of various printable files such as PPT, PDF, Word, etc.
- 5. Support desktop sharing, occupy less bandwidth and high transmission efficiency
- 6.Support application sharing
- 7. Support PPT animation to make the presentation more exciting
- 8. Support multi-channel mixing, unhindered communication
Web conference case description
- Pernod Ricard Cross-Regional Management Meeting
- Background: Pernod Ricard, the world's top wine producer and seller, has 12,250 employees, and has 14 well-known brands such as Martell, Granville, and Chivas in the world
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- Demand: large enterprises, frequent cross-regional management meetings
- Objective: To improve the efficiency of inter-departmental communication and employees' work efficiency while the company "open source and reduce expenditures" through the live broadcast direct system.
- Effect: The sponsoring department can quickly and instantly hold a multi-party management meeting in just 5 minutes. 64 branches around the world participate. The audio and video are smooth and clear. The Gensee webcast system helps Pernod Ricard Group easily achieve tens of thousands of people. At the same time, the need to participate in online conferences remotely and stably. Pernod Ricard will use the Gensee system to solve communication and collaboration between companies around the world.
Current status of online conferences in China
- According to the latest data from CCW, the domestic video conference market size in 2009 was approximately 4.36 billion yuan, and it is expected to grow to 6 billion by 2010.
- Industry insiders point out that in China, the SARS incident in 2003 was the starting point for the formal development of online video conferencing in China. Statistics show that the online video conference market showed an explosive growth of 42.61% in China that year. After 2004, the market growth rate has slowed down compared to 2003, but it is affected by the maturity of network video conferencing technology, the popularity of the Internet, the continuous decline in network tariffs, the start of the government's level 3 and 4 network market, and the rapid growth of the enterprise market. Stimulated by favorable factors, China's online video conference market has entered a stage of stable and accelerated growth.
- The news that the Chongqing Women's Federation met through the online video conference has attracted people's attention. Some comments have listed the advantages of the online conference in detail, and hope that the online video conference "can be used for reference and learning everywhere." (For details, please refer to "People's Daily" on September 4, 2008)
- Online conferences are no longer a new thing. In recent years, with the popularization of networks, online conferences have also received more and more government and business support. In the early days of the Beijing Olympics, the Beijing government advocated for enterprises and institutions to allow employees to work from home through the Internet during the Olympics. Many companies also issued notifications to employees at the same time, stating that during the Olympic Games, they can move to work, and only need to complete the work content with quality and quantity and meet the assessment standards.
Application prospects of web conferencing
- China Internet Network Information Center released the "2008 China Online Video Market and Internet Consumer Video Consumption Behavior Research Report" on June 17, 2008. The data shows that as of the end of December 2007, China's Internet users using online video reached 160 million. , China's online video industry has fierce competition but good prospects, and it is moving towards diversification and integration.
- Many people think that web conferencing is the patent of a large company, and small and medium-sized companies have fewer employees and less business volume. Not only is web conferencing unnecessary, it is also not affordable. But the research conclusion is just the opposite! SMEs are the most active and fastest growing in the global economic system. In China, SMEs accounted for less than 50% of the growing GDP in 2007 and exceeded 60% by 2009. Regional and global expansion is the main driving force for the growth of SMEs. In the past 20 years, two services-communication services and logistics services-have greatly boosted the company's ability to expand regionally and globally. These two services are multipliers of enterprise productivity, which has expanded the scope and market space of SMEs.
- On the other hand, the price of web conferencing, from the simplest teleconference to more comprehensive web conferencing, is usually affordable.
- Industry insiders said that China's online conference market is very large, but the demand has not been met. With the development of SMEs, the development prospects of online conferences are very bright.
- In the operation and management of small and medium-sized enterprises, the headquarters and the resident agencies thousands of miles away always communicate and solve problems through various fixed reports and telephones. Remote management is a difficult point for every enterprise. Strong enterprises use OA systems, but their operating costs and adaptation difficulties are relatively large, and it is easy to use them forcibly. Network conference is a form of low-cost remote management to realize communication, which not only realizes "because you can know the world without leaving the house", and "you don't have to look around the world to talk about the world, you don't have to cross the river to wade through the river and fight against Confucianism." It includes web video conferencing, web teleconferencing, and more.
Application of Web Conference in Cloud Computing
- Cloud conference is an efficient, convenient and low-cost conference format based on cloud computing technology. Users only need to perform simple and easy operations through the Internet interface, and can quickly and efficiently share voice, data files and videos with teams and customers around the world. Complex technologies such as data transmission and processing during meetings are provided by cloud conference services. To help users operate.
- At present, domestic cloud conferences are mainly focused on service content based on the SAAS (Software and Services) model, including telephone, network, video and other service forms.
- In the era of cloud conferencing, data transmission, processing, and storage are all handled by computer resources from video conferencing manufacturers and remote conferences.
- Cloud conference is the perfect combination of video conference and cloud computing, bringing the most convenient remote conference experience.
- The cloud conference system supports multi-server dynamic cluster deployment and provides multiple high-performance servers, which greatly improves conference stability, security, and availability.
New application boom in web conferencing
- To be sure, the development and application of 3G networks has expanded the scope of traditional video conference services, enriched application models, and is a milestone in the development of video conferences. The 3G network has high-speed data transmission capabilities, and can simultaneously process multiple media data such as sound, images, and video streams, providing a foundation and opportunity for the application of video conference services in mobile networks.
- In video conferencing operations, software video conferencing has become the mainstream of video conferencing applications due to its extremely high price-performance ratio (excellent audio and video effects and rich data collaboration functions, easy expansion and easy maintenance). We should attach great importance to the development of 3G networks and formulate corresponding strategies based on their respective products, markets, technological research and development capabilities, and business models, and strive to obtain new opportunities in the 3G era on the basis of maintaining the growth of the original business market. 3G completes its own transcendence.
- In the future, video conferencing will leave the office and be widely used in airports, coffee shops, residences or outdoor plazas. Wireless netbooks and mobile phones will become new application platforms for video conferencing, and video conferencing applications will be more arbitrary!
- At the same time, we should also see that the cultivation of 3G mobile video users is a long-term process. Although China has the largest potential user group in the world, how to segment the market, how to conduct business development and product design, and how to transplant video conferences On the mobile platform, the integration and interconnection of video conferences on mobile phones, desktops, and conference rooms, how to promote, guide users and enhance the "stickiness" of products, how to increase the added value of products, and transform scattered users into a centralized and unified "market" These are the challenges and opportunities that video conference operations face in the 3G era.
- We believe that in the 3G era, video conferencing will usher in another round of development peaks. Enterprises that successfully integrate video conferencing and 3G networks will take the lead in the fierce market competition.
New direction for cloud computing in web conferencing
- Cloud computing enables enterprises and individual users to integrate manufacturers' computer resources and obtain required services as long as they use the Internet. This new approach will bring creative reforms to many IT industries. In recent years, the most popular remote communication method-network video conferencing, will also take full advantage of cloud computing to provide users with the strongest conference services in the most convenient way.
- In the era of cloud computing for network video conferencing, data transmission, processing, and storage are all handled by the computer resources of network video conferencing manufacturers. Users no longer need to purchase expensive hardware and install cumbersome software. They only need to open a browser and log in to the corresponding interface. You can conduct efficient remote conferences.
- Network video conferencing has greatly improved communication efficiency, continued to reduce communication costs, and brought about an upgrade in internal management. It has been welcomed by many users and has been widely used in government, military, transportation, transportation, finance, operators, education, and enterprises. field. There is no doubt that after the use of cloud computing in network video conferencing, it is more attractive in terms of convenience, fastness and ease of use, and it will surely inspire a new climax of video conferencing applications.
- Facing the new technological reforms in the industry, video conference manufacturers, especially leaders, shoulder the heavy responsibility of technological innovation and promotion.
Development Trend of Web Conference
- With the rapid development of information technology in the world, especially the popularization of Internet technology, cloud conference-based network conferences have developed rapidly, and are being used by more and more companies in cross-regional management conferences, interviews, recruitment, and collaborative work. And other work scenarios. However, with the increasing requirements of enterprises on the function and performance of network conferencing, video conferencing systems are required to not only provide video transmission, but also provide multimedia solutions that integrate video, audio, graphics, and data. Therefore, a multifunctional network live broadcast system that integrates audio and video, document sharing, and interactive links has become a new development direction of web conferencing. It is a subversion and innovation of traditional video conferencing, with large-scale concurrency, high stability, easy operation, More interactive features.
Network Conference Cloud Computing Era
- The basic idea of cloud computing is to provide users with the computing power, storage space, software functions, and information services required by the network, so that the user terminal is reduced to a simple input and output device, and can enjoy the "cloud" powerful computing as needed Processing power. The product design, product architecture, technology research and development, and server architecture of the web version of web conferencing are based on this concept, which is why the web version of web conferencing has very low requirements on the client device, but it is very convenient to use. Compared with the existing online web conferences, the web-based web conferences have more significant advantages in terms of convenience, speed, and ease of use. This marks that the web version of the web conference has brought everyone into the era of cloud computing for web conferences.
Well-known brands in online conferences
- Hardware: Polycom, AVCON, TANDBERG, Cisco, Huawei, AVerComm (China Taiwan Yuanzhan Group), Lifesize Lishi HD, Sony, Ruishi Hengtong, Netease Video Conference, Zinan, HDCON, Digital China, Huateng, ZTE, Good Conference, Chevlen, VidiNOW, webex, Mikogo, BeamYourScreen, SYNOD, Haimeng, Ruiford, ANYV, Boyaquan, Huaping, Cenwave, KEDACOM, etc.
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- Server: turbomeeting, vidyo, gomeetnow
- Web version: V2 Flash web version video conference, PPMEET web version web conference, web version LUC video conference, etc.