The Ferrari of Videoconferencing

CIO, June, 2007 by Nancy Weil

While telepresence may bridge the gap between meeting participants in a way that wasn't possible with traditional Web videoconferences, it's still cost-prohibitive for most companies. HP's telepresence solution, HP Halo, rings in at $425,000. Cisco's Telepresence 3000 (a six-seat, three-screen telepresence room) and solutions from Teliris, Polycom and Tandberg each cost around $300,000, Schooley says.

Add on monthly fees for a concierge service to operate the meeting and room (sometimes offsite), and you see that this doesn't suit a small organization. However, it's effective for an executive who makes frequent trips among global offices. "Since these executives would use first class fares, in the long run it's more cost-effective to do telepresence," she says. In...

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