telepresence
Half of companies are deploying or planning to evaluating telepresence. Typical deployments are limited; only a handful of rooms located in large office locations. But with the mean price of a room deployment hovering around $250,000, plus on-going costs for bandwidth and management, how can organizations justify such an expense, especially in light of shrinking or flat IT budgets? The answer is simply that executives perceive a great deal of value in meeting via telepresence versus room-based, desktop, or audio conferences. Telepresence, unlike other meeting technologies is perceived as suitable replacement for in-person meetings, especially for senior executives.
Those deploying telepresence almost universally sing its praises, with most reporting high utilization, high user satisfaction, and a strong demand to expand telepresence facilities to additional locations and to extend telepresence sessions beyond corporate boundaries.
