NEC 128 User Manual

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VisuaLink 128/384 General Description
Applications
The Videoconferencing market is growing rapidly with the more widely 
available ISDN network and cost effective videoconferencing units 
such as VisuaLink. Videoconferencing is being adapted to a wide 
variety of applications.
General Business provides many applications for 
videoconferencing between distant sites. New opportunities are 
possible, especially for small groups of people where 
videoconferencing was too complex or costly before. Smaller 
project meetings and reviews could now use videoconferencing. 
Project members or staff “on-the road” could participate using their 
Laptop PCs (with VisuaLink, video capture card, camera, and BRI 
interface).
Education provides significant opportunities for in-home 
instruction, special needs tutoring, at-home corporate training, 
remote product training, and remote technical assistance for 
product maintenance.
Remote Interactive Kiosk is possible for public offices, consumer 
retail, remote site-seeing guides, remote consultation, remote 
convention & trade show expertise and presentations.
Telemedicine creates the opportunity for in-home care giver to 
senior citizens or the mobility impaired. Remote medical training for 
hard-to-get-to locations or smaller medical centers.
New Applications - New Markets will now be opened and 
realized with VisuaLink. VisuaLink compact systems can be setup 
at any location for presentations and interactive communications. It 
can instantly bring in experts (from back home) to help the sales 
force at a remote convention.
The following diagrams illustrate some of the various uses for 
VisuaLink videoconferencing.