Cheap Video Conferencing for Small-to-Medium Sized Corps?

Jason W. asks: "I work for a medium sized company of about 75 employees. A while back I was asked by our CEO to look into a video conferencing solution. I didn't find much information about setting up a system in house except from Real Networks. The problem was, they wanted $10,000 just to start. We even had a sales visit from a consultant who laughed at us when we didn't want to spend $8-10,000. Like I said, we are a medium sized company, but did I mention we are privately owned? $10,000 is WAY to much for us to spend on what would be, new technology for us. I wanted to poll Slashdot readers, and see if they have any experience in this area. As for our needs, I know we would need to talk from Texas to Washington D.C, and to Virginia. Can we do it from our website? Do we have to have hardware 'stations' on each end? What are your thoughts?"

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Dlink

[austad]

D-link makes a video conferencing device. No link now, but they reviewed it on Ars Technica awhile back. Go look, it's neat, and only $300 or so.

Polycom units work great, but they are expensive. Make sure you use QoS in your routers or you're going to have problems.