Comments on: Polycom Telepresence impresses ITSPA http://www.trefor.net/2010/07/14/polycom-telepresence-impresses-itspa/ Insider comments from the world of communications Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:50:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ted King http://www.trefor.net/2010/07/14/polycom-telepresence-impresses-itspa/comment-page-1/#comment-4238 Ted King Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:53:22 +0000 http://staging.trefor.net/?p=2999#comment-4238 Tref - If you know a travel agent have him or her give you a London - New York vs. London - Edinburgh for eighteen people package. Just median air fare vs. median rail fare. That $650K will look a whole lot more reasonable in view of the base travel expense. Those who've done business travel will know to factor in meals and deferred workloads due to being away from the office. Also, I hear that the latest version of Apple's iPhone has a videophone feature. If so, then the low end, single-user price per person is roughly $260 (list + tax + shipping + case). Now, if that jumbo display can merge in some single-user clients like the iPhone 4 and Skype then it would really be sweet. http://www.apple.com/iphone/ http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/features/ P.S. Telepresence would have been very useful on some of my technical support calls in the past. On one occasion I had to talk a senior manager through the PC equivalent of a brain transplant. Had I been able to see what she was doing it would have been easier for both of us. Tref – If you know a travel agent have him or her give you a London – New York vs. London – Edinburgh for eighteen people package. Just median air fare vs. median rail fare. That $650K will look a whole lot more reasonable in view of the base travel expense. Those who’ve done business travel will know to factor in meals and deferred workloads due to being away from the office.

Also, I hear that the latest version of Apple’s iPhone has a videophone feature. If so, then the low end, single-user price per person is roughly $260 (list + tax + shipping + case). Now, if that jumbo display can merge in some single-user clients like the iPhone 4 and Skype then it would really be sweet.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/features/

P.S. Telepresence would have been very useful on some of my technical support calls in the past. On one occasion I had to talk a senior manager through the PC equivalent of a brain transplant. Had I been able to see what she was doing it would have been easier for both of us.

]]> By: Somerset http://www.trefor.net/2010/07/14/polycom-telepresence-impresses-itspa/comment-page-1/#comment-4235 Somerset Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:48:52 +0000 http://staging.trefor.net/?p=2999#comment-4235 cd - this shows that fibre is not essential. cd – this shows that fibre is not essential.

]]> By: cyberdoyle http://www.trefor.net/2010/07/14/polycom-telepresence-impresses-itspa/comment-page-1/#comment-4227 cyberdoyle Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:23:24 +0000 http://staging.trefor.net/?p=2999#comment-4227 "Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be." Kahlil Gibran "A Handful of Sand on the Shore" "For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be." - Alfred Lord Tennyson Bring on the fibre. chris “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”

Kahlil Gibran “A Handful of Sand on the Shore”

“For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Bring on the fibre.
chris

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