Video and Audio Conferencing
Video Conference Call
A videoconference (also known as ITV) is a set of interactive telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously. Videoconferencing is designed to serve a conference rather than individuals.
Videoconferencing uses telecommunications of audio and video to bring people at different sites together for a meeting. This can be as simple as a conversation between two people in private offices (point-to-point) or involve several sites (multi-point) with more than one person in large rooms at different sites. Besides the audio and visual transmission of meeting activities, videoconferencing can be used to share computer-displayed information.
Audio Conference Call
An audio conference is a telephone call in which the calling party wishes to have more than one called party listen to the audio portion of the call. The conference calls may be designed to allow the called party to participate during the call, or the call may be set up so that the called party merely listens into the call and cannot speak. It is often referred to as an ATC (Audio Tele-Conference).
Conference calls can be designed so that the calling party calls the other participants and adds them to the call. In most cases, the participants are able to call into the conference call themselves, by dialing into a special telephone number that connects to a "conference bridge" (also known as a “meet-me call”). Many of the Office of the Chancellor conference room at both the Wells Fargo Place and Minneapolis Community and Technical College location are Cisco IP audio conferencing telephones which allow a total of 6 calls before using an outside “conference bridge”.
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