What’s Conferencing?

If you’re an individual with latest mobile or who’s a keen interest in technology then you must have heard of term ‘conferencing’. So, what’s conferencing?

Conferencing is a result of continuous development in technology and a conference call is the call in which a number of users are talking at the same time i.e. the calling person can have more than one called person. A conference bridge is required to establish the phone conference as it is an equipment that links telephone lines. The conference bridge is usually maintained by a service provider. Three-way calling is also available in latest phones. In three-way calling, an individual can dial a number and establish a call while he’s already talking to someone else on another call.

Apart from audio conferences, videoconferencing is also available. In videoconferencing, telecommunications of audio and video are used to bring people together for a meeting. These people are usually located at different locations. Digital compression of video and audio streams in the real time is the core technology used in establishing videoconferences.

Some of the features/benefits associated with audio conferences and video conferences are –

• Conferencing results in reduced travel costs. As people located at different locations can easily communicate with each other via conferencing, travel costs are reduced to considerable amount.
• Conferencing services are available at an affordable price. So, you can save some considerable amount of money as well.
• Conference IDs, passwords and unique participant PINs are used while establishing conference calls. So, conference calls are pretty secure and you can easily use them for your business purposes.
• With the help of conferencing, it is possible to carry out lectures. This helps in distant education.
• It is very easy to administer the conference calls because of the easy to understand user interface which allows you to easily change, add and delete accounts.

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