Teleconference

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What Does Teleconference Mean?

A teleconference is a conference that is held through a telephone system or similar network. A wide variety of teleconferencing equipment helps businesses and organizations to accomplish multi-user communications where individual users can connect to each other from sites anywhere around the world. Features like file sharing, joint presentation displays, and other extras help to add more functionality to teleconferencing.

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A teleconference is also known as an audioconference.

Techopedia Explains Teleconference

Large tech providers as well as smaller vendors continue to add new teleconferencing products to the array of products and services already available. Teleconferencing resources often use the Internet Protocol network system. This includes Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems, which deliver teleconferencing through the use of routed connections via the World Wide Web’s global network system. These types of resources are becoming more sophisticated and versatile for today’s growing market in group telecommunications.

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Margaret Rouse
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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.