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Video Solutions
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DEFINITY® Business Communications System and GuestWorks® Issue 6
Overview
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Issue 1
April 2000
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Video Solutions
Overview
Consider the following business scenario. Your colleagues have asked to meet
with you and your team as soon as possible to discuss the latest project. The
project team needs to discuss how to meet the timetable and satisfy your
customer’s expectations. The team also needs to view the prototype that the
engineering department has just finished.
Add to this that you are already traveling on business for another project, the pro-
totype is back at the home office, and your team is spread across different sites.
Standard business procedure would dictate that you cancel your meetings, get on
the next airplane back to one work site or another — briefcase full of needed files,
and the prototype packed carefully for shipment. Hopefully, the prototype will
arrive intact, and the time away from your current assignment will not set you too
far back in your already hectic schedule.
DEFINITY BCS and GuestWorks provides an alternative to business as usual —
revolutionary video communication solutions. Through the use of Lucent Technol-
ogies’ video products and services, you can meet with your colleagues — across
the country or around the world — via video communications. So, instead of head-
ing back to the airport, your associates at the home office take the prototype to
their video conferencing room, you set a up a video conference with facilities
offered by your hotel, and everyone is happy knowing this face-to-face meeting
does not involve luggage or jet lag. Then once your meeting is over, you are back
at your hotel room taking care of your current project assignment, and your team
at the home office is ready to start implementing the decisions that were just
made.
Video conferencing allows you to make quicker decisions, provides ready access
to essential information, allows you to consult with specialists on an as-needed
basis, and ultimately allows you to bring products to market faster.