Audio-video conferencing has reduced and saved time, money and energy of representatives traveling foreign lands. Audio-video conferencing has greatly helped in educational sectors by educating ‘Distance-learning’ students.

Audio-video conference is a popular trend in the business world and also very useful in connecting people of various fields and designated in various places. Thanks to this great technological development, it has become easier to communicate and exchange data with people across the globe.

The history or the existence of conferencing technology can be looked back in the early 1960s. These conferences were equipped by unsophisticated and expensive picture phone device. Today that machine has evolved as complex business equipment with additional features such as color monitors and other features.

Audio-video conferencing is very much applied in business and education sectors. In the business sector, companies that deal with international clients or have their branches overseas needs to hold conferences and meetings efficiently, since they have chosen to cut down their air travel expenses to the minimum.

While in the education sector, audio-video conferencing has been actively useful when conducting seminars or lectures for students located in different parts of the country and the world. And in this way ‘Distance-Learning’ has been successfully running and have reduced many educational barriers.

The term used for audio-video conference in educational sector today is ‘remote students’ and ‘remote professors’. Audio-video conferences are of two types, asynchronous and synchronous types. In the Asynchronous type, conferences are recorded and can be viewed by the participants anytime they prefer. The other type which is the synchronous type enables participants to interact with each other in real-time. The advantage of this type of conference is that immediate feedback is attained just like a traditional ordinary meeting.

Audio-video conferencing is a very helpful and a great technology. Many industries and educational institutions are benefited by this technology in achieving their goals and saving time and money. Experts say that still there are more improvements and innovations to be done in the future because they feel that this technology has not fully reached to that satisfaction level. Huge telecommunication companies have adopted audio-video conferencing through cell phones and smaller telecommunication companies are working on further improvements in this technology.