• DocumentCode
    1305677
  • Title

    The picturephone is here. Really

  • Author

    Wiegand, Thomas ; Sullivan, Gary J.

  • Volume
    48
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    9/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    50
  • Lastpage
    54
  • Abstract
    This paper discusses about video telephony. So equipment manufacturers turned to the corporate world, introducing pricey videoconferencing systems designed to replace on-site meetings and reduce travel costs. While many companies invested in the technology in the 1990s, it typically gathered dust, unused. It looked as though people didn´t want it anywhere.
  • Keywords
    teleconferencing; videotelephony; equipment manufacturer; picturephone; video telephony; videoconferencing system; Cameras; Hardware; Image communication; Static VAr compensators; Streaming media; Telephony; Transform coding; Videophone systems; Visual communication;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.2011.5995902
  • Filename
    5995902