Conferencing

Companies are beginning to adopt new practices, connecting via telepresence and satellite video conference.Connecting through technology continues to gain popularity while providing an alternative to the increased costs of business travel.Companies around the world are now using video conference technology to facilitate meetings while saving time and money in the process.

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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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Institute of Communication Studies University of the Punjab organized a video conference with Colorado University of USA at University of the Punjab here on Thursday.
The prime objective of the conference was to promote distance learning, education research, teachers training and depict media scene in USA and Pakistan as well as developing studentsÆ skills.
Dean of the Colorado University Paul Boakes and Amy Hardy were focal persons from the USA.

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The Higher Education Commission, Pakistan has initiated a project titled “Online Lecturing and Net-Meeting using IP-based Video Conferencing System” for provisioning of Video Conferencing facility at all public sector universities and establishment of world class video conferencing lecture room. In the first phase of the project 18 universities/ degree awarding institutions will be provided this facility. The project is now in the implementation stage for 18 universities . In the second phase remaining 32 universities will be provided video conferencing facility. The project involves supply, installation, integration, testing, commissioning and maintenance/support of fully functional Video Conferencing System along with the collaborative tools to enhance the Students-Teacher interaction through distance learning.

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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

Traditionally screen sharing has been long referred to as application sharing, to define more specifically the ability not just to show specific applications to other connected participants but the combined ability of screen sharing with remote control.screen sharing allows you to show PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, images and any other software running on your computer while remotely connected users see in real-time what you see on your screen.
So while the terms “application sharing” and “screen sharing” mean two different things they are increasingly used in interchangeable ways as many of the new tools and online services integrated them both, and companies prefer to use terminologies that make more immediate sense to the end user.
Screen-sharing generally requires abundant amounts of bandwidth and therefore it is best used when all participants are on a rather speedy internet connection.

Key advantages in using screen sharing tools to present materials to others are generally the ease of use and immediacy that this approach provides. On the other hand, screen sharing key limitations are the need for a good Internet connection to achieve effective results.

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.

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.

What do you do when you need to present to a group of people in different locations? While face-to-face meetings are undoubtedly the best for ensuring clear communication, travel time doesn’t mesh easily with Internet time.The promise of online get-togethers has been touted from the very first days of the Internet going main stream. The truth is the technology never took off. Old habits die hard. The initial attempts at web conferencing and online collaboration ran up against the traditional new technology obstacles–not particularly user friendly and a royal pain for the busy executive who had neither the patience nor the skill to deal with a play toy of the techno geeks. Since 9/11, however, things have changed. Audio conferences eliminate the time and expense of travel, but you lose the ability to use visuals. Web conferencing which allows you to hold an audio conference while sending and viewing visuals via the Internet. Although the technology is not yet perfect, Web conferencing can help companies communicate key messages, both internally and to customers and shareholders, while saving on the time and expense of travel.

The difficulty and rising cost inherent in today’s business travel coupled with the need to constrain expense as a result of an ever lingering recession, has forced a second look at web conferencing, not just as a means of bypassing the traditional face-to-face meeting, but also as an opportunity to train, demonstrate and inform without the loss of time and dollars associated with gathering bodies in a hotel room or meeting facility.