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by suzanne

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I am the IT manager for an organisation in Australia which has 5 bases spread throughout the state.
We have a WAN using Cisco routers and a 128k link between bases. The operating system is 3 x NT4 servers, and a number of users on Win9x.
As a medical organisation we are looking to implement video conferencing between our bases and the head office.
We have a couple of constraints:
1/ The majority of our doctors have laptops so we need something that will hust use USB ports - cant put a special card in the PC.
2/ We are a charitable organisation with some funding from government, so we have cost constraints.
I would be interested to hear if anyone else has implemented video conferencing and what their experiences were. Especially if they have done it on a shoestring which is pretty much what I am going to have to do.
What hardware/ software did you use? How stable, how fast/slow?
Look forward to hearing from you.

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by ldr

I, too am looking to implement videoconferencing in our elementary schools. We, too, have Windows NT 4.0. I am looking for information on the advantages and disadvantages between ISDN and DSL and how these differ from H.320, the differences between PictureTel and V-Tel and how these compare to NetMeeting. Budgets are tight in our school district, but I would like a system that is reasonably close to full-motion video if possible. I would appreciate any advice or information. Thank you.

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