We have a request from management to look at the feasibility of a video conferencing system. We have four physical locations and five nodes on the WAN (2 of the nodes are on the same LAN, see below) that would need video conferencing equipment. The WAN is in a star configuration connected with point to point T1. At least one T1 is heavily used. I have seen some information using WebCam’s on the net and it appears that this quality is very poor. I think we would want a resolution of 1280×768 (HDTV quality) so that we can show samples of product. This would need to be point and click, so that there is minimal user work involved.
Is there anyone that has made this work at this scale?
What works and what does not work?
Am I missing any details?
What Open Source options are there?
What Proprietary turnkey applications are available?
A network diagram.
Node A
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Main Office ____ ( Internet )
(Nodes D & E) \________/
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Node C
Thank you
