BrightCom  honored with one of the awards for Best Telepresence Solutions of 2009 by Telepresence and Video Conferencing Insight for its launch of the Lumina Telepresence L37 in September of 2009.
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By Amy Tierney, TMCnet Web Editor, TMCnet News

With cost savings on the minds of many business executives these days, organizations are on the hunt for cost-effective communications tools. And two popular technologies that are growing in adoption are telepresence and videoconferencing.

TMCnet spoke with Bob McCandless, CEO of Brightcom, a provider of integrated telepresence and videoconferencing solutions and Mark Szotkowski a communications broker and master agent with Portfolio Communications Solutions, about the best practices for telepresence and videoconferencing implementations.

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By Amy Tierney, Senior Web Editor, TMCnet News

In an effort to better explain the technical, operational and cultural aspects involved in the world of telepresence and videoconferencing, independent research firm and consultancy, Human Productivity Lab and Brockmann & Company, a customer insight firm, has published the first industry handbook on inter-company telepresence and videoconferencing.
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Thanks to greater enhancements in video capabilities, videoconferencing is quickly becoming a key component of collaborative business environments. For example, H.264 Scalable Video Coding and other technologies allow the delivery of high-quality video to a number of applications, such as real-time videoconferencing, broadcasting and streaming.

As more and more companies better understand the benefits of video communications, organizations are increasingly using the latest collaboration applications, such as videoconferencing and telepresence, to trim their travel budgets and boost efficiency.

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