Here’s an interesting article from the IVCi Newsletter on How to Fund Videoconferencing for Your Classroom. You can get this newsletter via email too.
Also in this newsletter was a feature on TANDBERG’s new FieldView product. It looks like a digital camera – but brings VC to the field. Very intriguing. I wonder how easy it is to get on a network. And would it work via a cable modem? Bandwidth and connectivity seem to be the big challenge of connecting on location.
Wow, this Tandberg device looks very interesting! I wonder if it’s H.323 compliant such that it could connect as a stand-alone endpoint?
I saw this camera at the Texas Distance Learning Conference in Galveston, Tx, this past March. It is a very cool little device. However, if I remember correctly it does not yet connect as a stand-alone endpoint. It can dial in to an IP, but the receiving computer has to have some client software loaded. It provides two-way audio, but only one way video.