Conferencing

Most powerful brands of the world will showcase their state-of-the-art products and services which would allow the user community to get exposure to a wide range of technology and solutions under one roof. Most importantly, it would provide an opportunity for business-to-business alliances, leveraging their mutual strengths. ITCN Asia Exhibitions & Conferences have been playing a pivotal role in landmarking the image of Pakistan on the world IT Map, bringing in huge foreign and local investments in the Country.

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Audio conferencing is a way for two, three, or more people to talk to each other across infinite distances. Oftentimes, along with audio interchange, audio conferencing involves photo or video conferencing, so that people can see each other moving and talking. Furthermore, audio conferencing can also utilize personal computers to allow users to work on the same document or other software application at the same time. Whatever on one user’s screen will also show up on all of the other screens in the conference. With the use of a digital white board and a special pen, users can even draw pictures and diagrams for each other to demonstrate visual ideas.

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The show will attract industry leaders and influential entities from all over the world, and showcase the latest technologies and trends relevant to the ICT industry. CONNECT is a prime source for successful business prospects in the sector and caters to a broad spectrum of resources.

The Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) and the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) have extended complete support for CONNECT. The PSEB has booked an exclusive pavilion in the show and various software houses and IT businesses will be participating on its platform. Similarly, PTA has encouraged various telecom companies from the sector to partake in the event.

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The 3RD Global Telecommunication Congress 2010 (TeleCON 2010) being held on April 24, 2010 in Lahore will feature a special Panel Discussion on Technology Choices and Infrastructure Challenges with participation from key telecom companies and technology experts. The annual conference has drawn enthusiastic participation from telecom companies, technology experts and the academia.

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The use of satellites in communication systems is a fact of everyday life, as is evidenced by the many homes which are equipped with antennas, or “dishes”, used for reception of satellite television.

What may not be so well known is that satellites form an essential part of telecommunications systems worldwide, carrying large amounts of data and telephony traffic, in addition to television signals.

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Pakistan is the regional hub of Information and Communications Technology, and is aspiring for constant development in the sector.

The country renders support to the various avenues of Information Technology and Communications through reduced tariffs, tax exemptions, and investment friendly policies. Despite the global economic meltdown, the ICT indicators in the country are encouraging and the growth has been positive. The industry has attracted FDI of over US$ 1.070 Billion during 2008-09 to uplift the industry and for the development of the ICT infrastructure in the country. The ICT industry is amongst the rapidly emerging sectors of Pakistan with the overall industry size at US$ 12 billion.

The government is endeavoring to establish the local industry to compete in international markets and to facilitate carious domestic projects to expand IT based commercial activities across Pakistan.

There are more than 2000 ICT companies actively operating in Pakistan engaged in  telecommunications, broadcasting & satellite, BPO, software development, banking automation, info-security, convergence, gaming, animation etc

The benefits of telepresence with its high fidelity audio, crisp video, and the feeling of face-to-face meeting is being offered on desktops by Tandberg, which announced a desktop telepresence solution Thursday. Called the EX90, the touchscreen solution is targeted at home office, SMB, and general business office use.

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Telecommunications provider Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (www.ptcl.com.pk) announced on Thursday it has opened the largest data center in Karachi, Pakistan.

The data center is designed to be consistent with international standards and data center certification bodies.

The facility is protected from intrusion and failure with multi-layered security, fail-safe redundancy, diversity measures, and rapid response recovery measures, says the company.

The new data center is directly connected to PTCL’s global MPLS backbone to offer a range of hosting solutions with unparalleled network performance and features.

PTCL offers capabilities designed to deliver greater efficiencies for hosting customers through the use of technologies such as storage on demand, processing on demand, business continuity and disaster recovery, all of which are integrated with PTCL network services.

Naveed Saeed, senior executive VP at PTCL, says the data center is designed to provide business enterprises in Pakistan with a “reliable, responsive and resilient infrastructure to suit their needs”.

PTCL says it is the only unified service provider in Pakistan and is able to service all enterprise segments with a range of products including fiber optic and wireless connectivity, MPLS, VPN, managed and hosted technology solutions.

The data center will provide enterprises with an application processing environment with connectivity to the fully redundant self healing optical fiber network backbone.

ISLAMABAD, Feb 25, 2010 (Asia Pulse Data Source)

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) has raised the bar in providing cutting edge business solutions to its customers and corporate clients by launching Tele Presence, the first of its kind in Pakistan.

According to a Press Release issued, PTCL Tele Presence is an innovative new technology that combines rich audio with high-definition video to deliver a true in person virtual meeting experience while connecting customers, partners and co-workers in real time. The main drivers in introducing this technology is to reduce costs, improve corporate social responsibility (CSR) credentials through reduced environmental impact and improve responses to business challenges and opportunities.

The PTCL Tele Presence ensures efficient end-to-end life size meeting experience by providing fully managed and scalable services over PTCLs global network. PTCL allow customers to come in and rent our Tele Presence studio on an hourly basis, without having to invest in the expensive technology, thus increase productivity through more interactions and less travel.

PTCL Tele Presence provides high quality video that enables access to anyone, anywhere around the world. Quality, simplicity, and reliability let user focus on the meeting, and communicate as naturally and effectively as if they were face to face, this increases the speed of decision making and helps in developing better relationships with colleagues, associates and customers, all of which is crucial to a companys success in todays thriving and competitive business environment.

EVP Corporate Solutions Zaman Gulzar said, PTCL offers Tele Presence conferencing studios for hire currently in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. Aside from this, these conferencing centres will be able to connect to Middle East, Europe, and North America and to any other Tele Presence suites around the world. These studios with the special conference table can seat up to six people per location and incorporates video monitors to create a virtual table of up to 30 participants. In addition to this PTCL operated conferencing studios, a Managed Service offering is also available for our high usage customers, whereby enterprises could opt for PTCL to build and equip a studio at the customers premise itself.

SEVP Commercial Naveed Saeed said, PTCL Tele Presence is a giant leap ahead in Multi-media conferencing technology. Our aim is to provide our customers with the most updated and sophisticated communication technology and also provide them with the best solutions possible which serves all their business needs by increasing productivity through more interactions and less travel.

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Distance Education is the main source of provision of educational facilities to every one i.e. rural masses, disadvantaged groups, people of remote areas and poor communities. It provides upgradtion of educational facilities to in-service population. Distance Education serves the dropouts to enhance the literacy rate. It provides equal opportunities to both sexes for their educational and professional development. Distance Education has become effective with the technological development in the world. Through technological development, Distance Education serves the global communities to minimize the gender disparities. The modern two way technologies have brought about a revolution in the system of Distance Education. This mode of education has become face-to- face teaching learning with the use of two way interactive technologies

In Pakistan, Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) is imparting Distance Education of International level. It is a mega University, having the semester enrollment 1.5 Million and 36 Regional Centers in Pakistan. AIOU also offers its educational programmes in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Sultanate of Oman and Bahrain.  AIOU is utilizing modern technologies to provide educational facilities to all around the globe. AIOU is utilizing television, satellite, internet, video conferencing and audio conferencing effectively to impart quality education. Recent innovations in the field of technology are making system of distance Education more effective and efficient.