what is teleconferencing?

Answer 1

A business meeting, educational session, etc., conducted among participants in different locations via telecommunications equipment.

Answer 2

Teleconferencing is a telephone call between more than two participants.

The most simple form of teleconferencing is using three-way calling to setup your own teleconference between yourself and two other particpants.

More advanced PBX equipment can setup conference calls between more than three participants.

Most businesses choose to use a teleconferencing service instead of purchasing and maintaining their own teleconferencing systems.


To hold a conference via a telephone or network connection. Computers have given new meaning to the term because they allow groups to do much more than just talk. Once a teleconference is established, the group can share applications and mark up a common whiteboard. There are many teleconferencing applications that work over private networks. One of the first to operate over the Internet is Microsoft's NetMeeting.

http://www.tech-faq.com/teleconferencing.shtml
www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/pittd/teleconf.htm
www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/ modernisation/county_council/Teleconferencing.htm
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-teleconference.htm

Answer 3

Usually refers to some voice conversation over Internet (with help of VOIP clients for isntsance: YMassneger, Skype I think Net Meeting etc) where few people can talk to each other at the same time.