video conferencing

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video conferencing - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  video conferencing
  
     <communications> A discussion between two or more groups of
     people who are in different places but can see and hear each
     other using electronic communications.  Pictures and sound are
     carried by the telecommunication network and such conferences
     can take place across the world.
  
     To overcome the bandwidth and latency limitations of
     current networks (especially the PSTN), some form of video compression
      is often used.
  
     (1995-05-01)