Digital Communications

The real interesting aspect of gaming is that technology drives it to do one step better every time. There are two programs that are currently in use which are free and wildly popular among PC gamers for Massive Multi-Player Online (Role Playing) Games. Teamspeak and Ventrillo both use a person's personal server set up by them for people to connect to. The quality of audio is solely dependant upon the quality of the server, however, Ventrillo is known to have slightly better quality. The reason this is so important, is because the way you communicate through it can vary wildly. You can set it so you push a button to talk, or set it to send audio at a certain decibel level. If you can't tell already that has serious business potential and applications. You can make it so you can talk and discuss while the other person is talking, and not have them hear you. The only thing that generates lag for these types of programs is the server and internet connection, which a company almost always has superior forms of as compared to consumers. It allows nearly limitless connections and is 100% free. The only thing you need for your company to make a conference call to every single board room in their corporation is 1) an Internet connected laptop or PC 2) a microphone 3) the program 4) a board room. Now because it's a laptop you can plug it into the room's built in audio via the headphone port so everyone can hear it. Not only that, but you can set it to personal preferences for volume input and output. Meaning you can put it in the middle of a 100 person board room and everyone who wants to speak could be heard, and if it's too quiet, you can make it so you pick up more volume, and vise verse. These programs are a lot like skype, only you don't even need a phone number to talk to each computer. You can set up 1 globally used server and every branch can use it and be in separate password protected rooms to speak teach other in, or one common room to speak to everyone in. It has many benifits over skype but the only single disadvantage it has compared to skype, is it can not call phone numbers and its quality is slightly inferior. But if the gains outweigh the cost to use skype, then a company would welcome this easily.