Desktop Conferencing

Imagine that your company has an important meeting with clients and stakeholders. Almost everybody is present and is waiting in the conference room. However, the person that has the presentation called in sick and cannot come in. Will your company suffer from his absence? If your company has remote desktop sharing capabilities, the meeting can still take place with the sick person being virtually present through the use of desktop conferencing.

Desktop conferencing works by combining the multimedia capabilities of computers, things like real-time audio and video collaboration over the internet virtually enable an employee to join a meeting even if he or she is located somewhere else. Desktop conferencing is possible only if you have these three components: (1) installed desktop sharing software on the PCs, (2) a fast internet connection, and (3) a secured desktop sharing network.

In order to start a desktop conferencing in the office, an office computer is usually designated as the host computer. Employees who are not present in the office but are needed in the meeting will then use remote PCs to login to the meeting using passwords assigned to each conference session.

Desktop conferencing saves businesses a lot of money since they can now allow employees to work at home yet still be able to virtually report and to hold virtual meetings.