Section 1: Hardware and related product brands

Videophone hardware brands for person-to-person (point-to-point) use

• ACN: IRIS (United States)
• BrightCom: Clearview & Lumina Telepresence (United States)
• D-Link
  D-Link
  D-Link Corporation was founded in June 1986 in Taipei as Datex Systems Inc. It began as a network adapter vendor and has gone on to become a designer, developer, and manufacturer of networking solutions for both the consumer and business markets.In 2007, it was the leading networking company in...
  
  : DVC series (Taiwan)
• HP: Halo Telepresence Solutions (United States)
• Leadtek
  Leadtek
  Leadtek Research, Inc. is a Taiwanese company, founded in 1986, which focuses on research and development that is specialized in the design and manufacture of graphics cards.- Products :...
  
  : IP broadband videophone (Taiwan)
• LifeSize
  LifeSize
  LifeSize, a division of Logitech, is a video and audio communications company that provides high definition video conferencing endpoints and accessories, infrastructure products and a cloud-based video collaboration platform. LifeSize's worldwide headquarters is located in Austin, Texas...
  
  : LifeSize Passport Connect, LifeSize Passport & LifeSize Express (United States)
• LG/LifeSize: LG Executive powered by LifeSize (United States)
• LG-Nortel
  LG-Nortel
  LG-Ericsson is a joint venture company created between the Swedish group Ericsson and the South Korean group LG Electronics. Founded in November 2005, it engineers and designs telecommunications equipment, with LG providing distribution and marketing...
  
  : LVP series PSTN, ISDN and IP videophones (South Korea)
• Radvision: Video Conference Systems (Israel)
• Tandberg
  Tandberg
  This article is about the video-conferencing vendor, a Cisco company. Other companies with the same name such as Tandberg Television or Tandberg Data for data storage: see here and here...
  
  : E20
  Tandberg E20
  The E20 is an entry-level personal videoconferencing system produced by the Norwegian company Tandberg.The E20 was introduced in 2008, and started shipping in Q1 2009. The system is intended as a replacement for traditional office telephones...
  
  (Norway)
• Telio
  Telio
  Telio is a Norwegian telecommunications company that provides VoIP telephony services in Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands with a total of 115,000 customers, making it the second largest VoIP service provider in Norway, after Telenor....
  
  : Telio videotelefon IP3870 (Norway)
• Worldgate
  Ojo
  Ojo may refer to:*Ojo the Lucky, an Oz book series character*Ojo, Nigeria, a town in Lagos State, Nigeria*Kim Ojo, Nigerian football midfielder*Topsy Ojo, English rugby union player*Ojo , a 5-part comic book series by Sam Kieth...
  
  : Ojo PVP series (United States)
• Viable: Viable VPAD+ (United States, France, Brazil, and Germany)

Videoconferencing and telepresence hardware systems meant for multiple participants

Video conferencing systems allow multiple participants by use of a Multipoint Control Unit (a centralized distribution and call management system) or via a similar non-centralized multipoint capability technology embedded in each unit. Some multiple party systems utilize Web-based bridging service providers, which can occur slight time delays.

• Aethra
  Aethra
  In Greek mythology, Aethra or Aithra was a name applied to four different individuals:-Mother of Theseus:...
  
  : X-Line series (Italy)
• AVer: HVC, H Series (Taiwan)
• BrightCom: Lumina Telepresence (United States)
• Cisco Systems
  Cisco Systems
  Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services. Cisco has more than 70,000 employees and annual revenue of US$...
  
  : Cisco TelePresence
  Cisco Telepresence
  Cisco TelePresence, first introduced in October 2006, is a product developed by Cisco Systems which provides high-definition 1080p video, spatial audio, and a setup designed to link two physically separated rooms so they resemble a single conference room even though the two rooms may be on opposite...
  
   (United States)
• HP: Halo (United States)
• LG-Nortel
  LG-Nortel
  LG-Ericsson is a joint venture company created between the Swedish group Ericsson and the South Korean group LG Electronics. Founded in November 2005, it engineers and designs telecommunications equipment, with LG providing distribution and marketing...
  
  : LVP series PSTN, ISDN and IP videophones (South Korea)
• Librestream
  Librestream
  Librestream Technologies Inc. is a privately-owned, venture capital backed company based in Winnipeg, Canada. Librestream provides technologies that enable mobile enterprise collaboration....
  
  : Onsight (Canada)
• LifeSize
  LifeSize
  LifeSize, a division of Logitech, is a video and audio communications company that provides high definition video conferencing endpoints and accessories, infrastructure products and a cloud-based video collaboration platform. LifeSize's worldwide headquarters is located in Austin, Texas...
  
  : LifeSize Team, LifeSize Room & LifeSize Conference (United States)
• Magor: HD-Duo, HD-Trio (Canada)
• Panasonic
  Panasonic
  Panasonic is an international brand name for Japanese electric products manufacturer Panasonic Corporation, which was formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd...
  
  : VC500 (Japan)
• Polycom
  Polycom
  Polycom is a multinational corporation with approximately 3,200 employees worldwide and an annual revenue of approximately $1.2 billion in 2010. The company manufactures and sells telepresence and voice communications solutions.-Company History 1990:...
  
  : RPX, OTX, ATX, HDX, VSX series (United States)
• Polycom
  Polycom
  Polycom is a multinational corporation with approximately 3,200 employees worldwide and an annual revenue of approximately $1.2 billion in 2010. The company manufactures and sells telepresence and voice communications solutions.-Company History 1990:...
  
  : VVX (United States)
• Radvision: Scopia systems (Israel)
• Sony
  Sony
  , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
  
  : PCS systems (Japan)
• Tandberg
  Tandberg
  This article is about the video-conferencing vendor, a Cisco company. Other companies with the same name such as Tandberg Television or Tandberg Data for data storage: see here and here...
  
  : T3 Telepresence (Norway)
• VeaMea
  VeaMea
  VeaMea develops and markets videoconferencing and business collaboration software from its headquarters in McLean, VA, USA. Its products work in traditional conference room environments, as well as on more mobile devices such as desktops and laptops...
  
  : VeaMea Streaming Server & VeaMeaUC (United States)
• Vidyo
  Vidyo
  Vidyo, Inc. is a privately held, venture funded company that provides both software-based technology and product-based visual communication solutions...
  
  : VidyoRoom & VidyoDesktop (United States)

Videoconferencing hardware systems meant for the deaf, hard-of-hearing, telemedical and other institutional services

• IVèS: Total conversation solution (video, voice and real-time text
  Real-time text
  Real-time text is streaming text that is continuously transmitted as it is typed or otherwise composed. It allows conversational use of text, where people interactively converse with each other.-Use over instant messaging:...
  
  ) for Video Relay Services (VRS), Video Remote Interpreting (VRI), Text Relay and telemedecine.
• Librestream
  Librestream
  Librestream Technologies Inc. is a privately-owned, venture capital backed company based in Winnipeg, Canada. Librestream provides technologies that enable mobile enterprise collaboration....
  
  : Onsight (Canada)
• Mirial s.u.r.l.
  Mirial s.u.r.l.
  Mirial is a privately held Italian company providing products and solutions for visual communication in video/voice over IP, 3G/UMTS, IMS and Unified messaging areas; it engineers and develops appliances and software endpoints for enterprise-grade videoconferencing on converged networks and for IMS...
  
  : PSE Video Contact Center, comprehensive solution for remote audio and video contact services
• Polycom
  Polycom
  Polycom is a multinational corporation with approximately 3,200 employees worldwide and an annual revenue of approximately $1.2 billion in 2010. The company manufactures and sells telepresence and voice communications solutions.-Company History 1990:...
  
  : Practitioner Cart, HDX Immersive Telemedicine Education systems
• VeaMea
  VeaMea
  VeaMea develops and markets videoconferencing and business collaboration software from its headquarters in McLean, VA, USA. Its products work in traditional conference room environments, as well as on more mobile devices such as desktops and laptops...
  
   (United States)

Videoconference bridging service providers

• CoroWare Inc.
  CoroWare
  CoroWare is a robotics company based out of Kirkland, WA. CoroWare produces the CoroBot and Explorer mobile robotic product lines, which are four-wheeled robotic development platforms.- History :...
  
  : CoroCall HD Video Conferencing Service (United States)
• Glowpoint Conferencing Services, Glowpoint Inc. (United States)
• VCEverywhere - Enabling B2B Video Conferencing via H.323, SIP, PC, Mac & iPhone (United Kingdom)
• VeaMea
  VeaMea
  VeaMea develops and markets videoconferencing and business collaboration software from its headquarters in McLean, VA, USA. Its products work in traditional conference room environments, as well as on more mobile devices such as desktops and laptops...
  
   (United States)

Webcam hardware brands for use on personal computers

• Apple: iSight
  ISight
  iSight is a webcam, both external and internal, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. The external iSight was sold retail for US$149, connected to a computer via a FireWire cable, and came with a set of mounts to place it atop any then-current Apple display, laptop computer, all-in-one desktop...
  
  series/components (United States)
• BrightCom: ClearView PC series (United States)
• Creative
  Creative Technology
  Creative Technology Ltd. is a Singapore-based global company headquartered in Jurong East, Singapore. The principal activities of the company and its subsidiaries consist of the design, manufacture and distribution of digitized sound and video boards, computers and related multimedia, and personal...
  
  : Live! Cam series (Singapore)
• FaceVsion
  FaceVsion
  FaceVsion Technology Inc. is a manufacturer of computer hardware products based in Taiwan. It was founded in 2009 and has offices in China and USA.The first Skype certified HD Webcam ever was the FaceVsion TouchCam N1....
  
  : TouchCam (Taiwan)
• Genius
  Genius (company)
  KYE Systems Corp. is a company founded in 1983, with headquarters in Taiwan and branch offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Hong Kong and China. It manufactures computer-related devices: keyboards, mice, graphic tablets, and game controllers. The company has over 3000...
  
    (Taiwan)
• Hama
  Hama Photo
  With 18,000 products, the Hama GmbH & Co KG is one of the world’s leading accessory manufacturers specialising in a number of areas including photo, video, audio, multimedia and telecommunications. The company also acts as a distributor of various product ranges. Hama employs around 2500 people all...
  
   CM Series, plus other various models (Germany)
• Hercules: Dualpix (France)
• Labtec
  Labtec
  Labtec Inc. was a manufacturer of computer accessories, founded in Vancouver, Washington, USA in 1981. They are best known for their budget range of peripherals such as keyboards, mice, microphones, speakers and webcams....
  
  : Labtec WebCam Series (United States)
• Lenovo: Webcam (People's Republic of China)
• Logitech
  Logitech
  Logitech International S.A. is a global provider of personal peripherals for computers and other digital platforms headquartered in Romanel-sur-Morges, Switzerland. The company develops and markets products like peripheral devices for PCs, including keyboards, mice, microphones, game controllers...
  
  : QuickCam
  Quickcam
  QuickCam is a line of webcam video camera products by Logitech.The original QuickCam was developed by Connectix in 1994 for nationwide commercial sale and was the first widely marketed webcam-like device, although its original advertising did not use the term "webcam" or refer to the World Wide...
  
  series (Switzerland)
• Linksys by Cisco
  Linksys
  Linksys by Cisco, commonly known as Linksys, is a brand of home and small office networking products now produced by Cisco Systems, though once a separate company founded in 1995 before being acquired by Cisco in 2003...
  
    (United States)
• Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
  : LifeCam
  LifeCam
  The LifeCam is a Webcam from Microsoft for home PC users available in various models. Its special features include an embedded microphone and integration with Windows Live Messenger, thus enabling direct Internet support. All models of Lifecam have a Windows Live Call button that causes Windows...
  
  Series (United States)
• Philips
  Philips
  Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , more commonly known as Philips, is a multinational Dutch electronics company....
  
  : SPC Webcam Series (Netherlands)
• Samsung
  Samsung Group
  The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...
  
   (South Korea)
• Sony
  Sony
  , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
  
  : PlayStation EYE webcamera (Japan)
• Trust
  Trust (electronics company)
  Trust International B.V. is a privately-held company headquartered in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. It is a manufacturer of value-for-money computer accessories that are marketed mostly at low and middle segment price levels. Trust International B.V. is an international company that is active in...
  
  : WB Series, plus various other models (Netherlands)

• Adobe Systems
  Adobe Systems
  Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...
  
  : Adobe Connect
• Bistri: One-click Video Chat
• BrightCom: Visual Collaboration System - VCS
• Cisco
  Cisco
  Cisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...
  
  : WebEx
  WebEx
  WebEx Communications Inc. is a Cisco company that provides on-demand collaboration, online meeting, web conferencing and videoconferencing applications...
  
  
• Glance Networks
  Glance Networks
  Glance Networks is software company headquartered in Arlington, Massachusetts. Glance Networks is most notable for Glance, a web-based desktop sharing and web conferencing tool.-Overview:...
  
  
• GoToMeeting
  GoToMeeting
  GoToMeeting is a Web-hosted service created and marketed by Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems. It is a remote meeting and desktop sharing software that enables the user to meet with other computer users, customers, clients or colleagues via the Internet in real-time.- Technology...
  
  : GoToMeeting w/ HD Faces
• InterCall
  InterCall
  InterCall, a subsidiary of West Corporation, is a conferencing and collaboration service provider. The company claims a customer base of over 1.7 million individual conference leaders in more than 75,000 organizations, 94% of Fortune 100, 88% of the Fortune 500 and 74% of the Fortune 1000.InterCall...
  
  
• IVèS: Live Video Plugin
• Librestream
  Librestream
  Librestream Technologies Inc. is a privately-owned, venture capital backed company based in Winnipeg, Canada. Librestream provides technologies that enable mobile enterprise collaboration....
  
  : Onsight Expert Collaboration Software
• LifeSize
  LifeSize
  LifeSize, a division of Logitech, is a video and audio communications company that provides high definition video conferencing endpoints and accessories, infrastructure products and a cloud-based video collaboration platform. LifeSize's worldwide headquarters is located in Austin, Texas...
  
  : Desktop
• MegaMeeting
• Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
  : NetMeeting
• Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
  : Office Live Meeting
• Mirial s.u.r.l.
  Mirial s.u.r.l.
  Mirial is a privately held Italian company providing products and solutions for visual communication in video/voice over IP, 3G/UMTS, IMS and Unified messaging areas; it engineers and develops appliances and software endpoints for enterprise-grade videoconferencing on converged networks and for IMS...
  
  : Mirial Softphone
• Nefsis
  Nefsis
  Nefsis CorporationType of Business Entity Private CompanyIndustryVideoconferencing, Web ConferencingFounded1998HeadquartersSan Diego, CA, USAKey peopleAllen Drennan, Founder, CTOSteven Peltier, CEOArea ServedWorldwideWebsite...
  
  : Nefsis Professional
• ooVoo
  OoVoo
  ooVoo is a proprietary instant messaging client developed by ooVoo LLC for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android and iOS. It was released in 2007, and is similar to Skype and Apple's Facetime. Calls can be recorded in real-time and twelve-way video chatting is supported...
  
  : ooVoo (Only for Windows & Mac)
• Radvision: MTF, VTA & IMS Applications
• SightSpeed
  SightSpeed
  SightSpeed is a videoconferencing company, supplying VoIP and instant messaging solutions for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems. The service allows people to make video calls, computer-to-computer voice calls, and calls to regular telephones, with free and paid versions.In...
  
  : Video Chat
• Skype
• Stickam
  Stickam
  Stickam is a website devoted to live-streaming video, featuring both professional and user-generated content. The site launched in 2005. Stickam features user-submitted pictures, audio, video, and most prominently, live streaming video chat...
  
  
• Tandberg
  Tandberg
  This article is about the video-conferencing vendor, a Cisco company. Other companies with the same name such as Tandberg Television or Tandberg Data for data storage: see here and here...
  
  : Movi
  Tandberg Movi
  Tandberg Movi is a SIP-based videoconferencing software client, developed by the Norwegian company Tandberg.Movi is targeted at the enterprise market, and must be used in conjunction with a Tandberg Video Communication Server...
  
  
• Tokbox
  Tokbox
  TokBox provides a free API that allows anyone to add group video chat features to their own websites. Experienced programmers use the OpenTok API to build custom interactive video chat applications...
  
  
• TrueConf
  TrueConf
  TrueConf is a Russian company that designs and produces video conferencing solutions. Headquartered in Moscow, Russia, the company has offices in Ukraine, Thailand and Australia....
  
  : TrueConf Server, TrueConf Online
• VeaMea
  VeaMea
  VeaMea develops and markets videoconferencing and business collaboration software from its headquarters in McLean, VA, USA. Its products work in traditional conference room environments, as well as on more mobile devices such as desktops and laptops...
  
  : VeaMeaUC (United States)
• Vidyo
  Vidyo
  Vidyo, Inc. is a privately held, venture funded company that provides both software-based technology and product-based visual communication solutions...
  
  : VidyoConferencing
• vzRoom
  VzRoom
  vzRoom is a software system developed by Manipeer Limited for multi-party video conferencing, media sharing and VoIP phone integration. It was launched in July 2008 .- Multi-party videoconferencing:Each conference room supports up to 63 concurrent users...
  
  

Software clients for deaf and hard-of-hearing VRS/VRI facilities

• IVèS: Live Video Plugin
• Mirial s.u.r.l.
  Mirial s.u.r.l.
  Mirial is a privately held Italian company providing products and solutions for visual communication in video/voice over IP, 3G/UMTS, IMS and Unified messaging areas; it engineers and develops appliances and software endpoints for enterprise-grade videoconferencing on converged networks and for IMS...
  
  : Mirial Softphone

Server Software

• BrightCom: Visual Collaboration System
• GNU Gatekeeper
  GNU Gatekeeper
  The GNU Gatekeeper is an open-sourced project that implements an H.323 gatekeeper based on the OpenH323 or H323Plus stack...
  
  
• IVèS : Total conversation cloud
• Mirial s.u.r.l.
  Mirial s.u.r.l.
  Mirial is a privately held Italian company providing products and solutions for visual communication in video/voice over IP, 3G/UMTS, IMS and Unified messaging areas; it engineers and develops appliances and software endpoints for enterprise-grade videoconferencing on converged networks and for IMS...
  
  : ClearSea
• VeaMea
  VeaMea
  VeaMea develops and markets videoconferencing and business collaboration software from its headquarters in McLean, VA, USA. Its products work in traditional conference room environments, as well as on more mobile devices such as desktops and laptops...
  
   (United States)

Video telecommunication services for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

See also: Video Relay Service –Worldwide deployment for tables of VRS service providers in Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States.

• National Association for the Deaf: Video Relay Service
  Video Relay Service
  A Video Relay Service , also sometimes known as a Video Interpreting Service, is a videotelecommunication service that allows deaf, hard-of-hearing and speech-impaired individuals to communicate over video telephones and similar technologies with hearing people in real-time, via a sign language...
  
    (VRS)

Medical organizations employing video telecommunications

• American Telemedicine Association
  American Telemedicine Association
  American Telemedicine Association , established in 1993 as a non-profit organization, ATA goal is to promote access to medical care for consumers and health professionals via telecommunications technology...
  
  
• Association of Telehealth Service Providers
  Association of Telehealth Service Providers
  Association of Telehealth Service Providers is an international membership-based trade non-profit organization dedicated to improving health care through growth of the telehealth industry and promoting the use of telecommunications in healthcare. Its main activities are advocacy, education...
  
   (ATSP) (International)
• Ontario Telemedicine Network
  Ontario Telemedicine Network
  The Ontario Telemedicine Network is one of the largest telemedicine networks in the world. It uses two-way videoconferencing to provide access to care for patients in every hospital and hundreds of other health care locations across the province...
  
  

Public video conferencing facilities

• http://www.whygo.net/ Whygo Video Conferencing: Video Conferencing Facilities.
• Eyenetwork Videoconferencing: Video Conferencing facilities.
• FedEx Office
  FedEx Office
  FedEx Office is a chain of stores that provide a retail outlet for FedEx Express and FedEx Ground shipping, as well as printing, copying, and binding services...
  
  : formerly FedEx-Kinko's. Conference rooms with video conferencing.
• Marriott Hotels: conference rooms with video conferencing.
• Regus Offices: conference rooms with video conferencing.

Section 3: Defunct brands & services

Defunct videophone brands

• Picturephone, world's first commercialized videophone for individual and business use, developed by AT&T
  AT&T
  AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
  
   and Bell Labs
  Bell Labs
  Bell Laboratories is the research and development subsidiary of the French-owned Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company , half-owned through its Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary.Bell Laboratories operates its...
  
  

Defunct videoconferencing system brands

• IBM
  IBM
  International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
  
   Person to Person, a software-only collaborative conferencing system interoperable between OS/2, Windows and AIX developed and marketed between 1991 and 1995.

See also

• eMedicine
  EMedicine
  eMedicine is an online clinical medical knowledge base that was founded in 1996 by Scott Plantz and Richard Lavely, two medical doctors. The website is searchable by keyword and consists of approximately 6,800 articles, each of which is associated with one of 62 clinical subspecialty textbooks...
  
  
• List of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) software
• Mobile collaboration
  Mobile collaboration
  Mobile collaboration is a technology-based process of communicating utilizing electronic assets and accompanying software designed for use in remote locations...
  
  
• Telepresence
  Telepresence
  Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance of being present, or to have an effect, via telerobotics, at a place other than their true location....
  
  
• Unified communications
  Unified communications
  Unified communications is the integration of real-time communication services such as instant messaging , presence information, telephony , video conferencing, data sharing , call control and speech recognition with non-real-time communication services such as unified...
  
  , the integration of non real-time communication services such as unified messaging (integrated voicemail, e-mail, SMS and fax) with real-time communication services such as instant messaging, etc....
• Videoconferencing
  Videoconferencing
  Videoconferencing is the conduct of a videoconference by a set of telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously...
  
  
• Videophone
  Videophone
  A videophone is a telephone with a video screen, and is capable of full duplex video and audio transmissions for communication between people in real-time...
  
  
• Videotelephony
  Videotelephony
  Videotelephony comprises the technologies for the reception and transmission of audio-video signals by users at different locations, for communication between people in real-time....
  
   -parent article
• Web conferencing
  Web conferencing
  Web conferencing refers to a service that allows conferencing events to be shared with remote locations. Most vendors also provide either a recorded copy of an event, or a means for a subscriber to record an event. The service allows information to be shared simultaneously, across geographically...
  
  , used to conduct live meetings or presentations via the Internet
• Webcam
  Webcam
  A webcam is a video camera that feeds its images in real time to a computer or computer network, often via USB, ethernet, or Wi-Fi.Their most popular use is the establishment of video links, permitting computers to act as videophones or videoconference stations. This common use as a video camera...
  
   (Internet web cameras)
• Webcast
  Webcast
  A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand...
  
  , “broadcasting” over the Internet

Further reading

1. Davis, Andrew W. & Weinstein, Ira M. The Business Case for Videoconferencing, Wainhouse Research, March 2005.