Affordable Video Conferencing Cameras Can Make Use of Colleges’ Super High-Speed Internet

This is an understatement:

Boston University provides face-to-face video conferencing equipment and facilities.

It should read:

Boston University is connected to the fastest private broadband network in the U.S., and webcams have just become affordable, so you can live stream, video chat, webinar, or just plain waste a day watching Netflix all in Ultra HD right from your dorm room!

At least that’s how I’d brag about how BU students can luxuriate in the fastest, clearest, brightest, most detailed video call experience currently available to humans who don’t own their own cable company.

Webcam maker Tenveo has given us the commercially available camera, and the Internet2 consortium of 200 universities has given us the super high-speed network needed to make it fly.

So let’s see what you can achieve when the highly evolved becomes readily available.

Let’s go Terriers! (Yes, the mascot of Boston University is actually a Boston Terrier).

Video Calling

In the interest of accuracy and precision, I admit BU is hardly a “readily available” university, or typical of the U.S. college experience. With a $1.6 billion endowment, it can afford to give each of its 33,000 students whatever tech they need.

Unfortunately, however, it currently takes something elite to get the most out of  video streaming and calling. The average U.S. household connection just isn’t big enough or fast enough to convey all the data that travels in both directions during a video call.

As a result, there are few applications currently available calling to its proper use. YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon have made streaming possible for those who can handle it, but that information flow is only half that required for video calling, since streaming is one-sided.

However, domestic internet speeds are increasing–they jumped up by more than 40% last year–and the hardware/webcam end of the equation is already here, and is already (pretty) affordable.

An Affordable Webcam

Earlier this year, Tenveo introduced the TEVO-HD9620B webcam. TEVO-HD9620B 2.1 mega effective pixel, 1/2.8″ HD color CMOS sensor，1080P/60，video output (1920X1080). It ensures high definition, while focusing on meeting the needs of the screen fluency.

This camera is suitable for video capture desktop level of small to medium conference rooms and the collection of personal desktop video. It can be "seamless docking, Polycom PVX_8.0, Cisco WebEx series" and other video conferencing software, and other video call.

That network is fast enough to let remote orchestras use video conferencing to play together in real-time without lag. Whatever you can imagine as the visual equivalent of that kind of spectacle is possible with video conferencing.

Using Video Conferencing

For a start, everything you’ve already experienced during a standard definition or even HD video call is now bigger, brighter, and clearer. That means being able to clearly pick out a face among a crowd of dozens during a large group chat, or making crystal clear any object held to a camera in a product demonstration or lecture.

Things get more interesting on the college campus, however. An affordable camera gives every student the chance to collaborate, exhibit, visit, witness, and learn in ridiculous, in-person clarity.

•     Art students can display the finest details of their work

•     Drama students can get expert remote coaching on subtle facial movements

•     Engineering students can talk and view in detail the smallest components

•     Science students can present slides and samples in incredible clarity

•     Medical students can watch intimate, real-time surgeries

•     Business students can stage professional-grade presentations to peers and private entrepreneurs

With an affordable webcam and the right network to run it on, students can have round-table discussion with peers at colleges all over the country, without blurry or lagging visuals destroying the illusion of intimacy.

While the rest of us have to wait a little while longer for ready access to a network powerful enough to make it work, students at these Internet2 campuses can enjoy streaming and calling today. And they don’t have to get a second job waiting tables at the local coffee shop to afford the camera.

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