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Most telepresence adopters turn to service providers to obtain dedicated bandwidth. Why? Because telepresence requires a great deal of bandwidth; up to 6 Mbps per-screen, per-room. IT managers also see telepresence as a high-profile application. When a company has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to deliver a premium video conferencing solution often utilized by top executives, IT job security depends on delivering a high quality user experience. IT architects simply don’t want to take the chance that a critical telepresence session among executives, customers, and/or partners is interrupted because of issues on the data network. Despite increasing deployment of technologies such as WAN optimization and QoS, they simply aren’t willing to chance a network-related issue disrupting a telepresence session.
