One of the features of my current contract is having to keep in regular contact with a team of specialists, who are based at numerous locations around the country.<\/p>\n
Sure, we have the usual means of communications: IM, Email, SharePoint, and the somewhat traditional Telephone (for point to point and conference phone calls).<\/p>\n
But we also have that other late 20th Century method of keeping in touch.<\/p>\n
VideoConferencing.<\/p>\n
As any good infrastructure specialist will tell you, VideoConferencing will only work if your infrastructure is up to the job.<\/p>\n
In the past (not this contract), I’ve taken part in VideoConferences between Swindon, Cambridge, a research vessel in the South Atlantic, and a research station in the Antarctic.<\/p>\n
Those ultra long-distance VideoConferences worked 100% effectively, just as the ones in my current job.<\/p>\n
But there are some organisations that try to run VideoConferences on substandard infrastructure.<\/p>\n
This is their story – a story of those cheap, shabby organisations try to run 21st Century technology on 19th Century infrastructure…<\/p>\n
But enacted in real life.<\/p>\n
Enjoy!<\/p>\n