Virtual meetings with desktop conferencing

Teleconferencing has come a long way since its early days as little more than three-way calling services over the telephone. Today's virtual meetings boil down to collaborative computing on desktops or laptop computers. Using the communications protocol of the Internet, today's desktop conferencing can incorporate audio, video, shared documents and engineering drawings, whiteboard for diagrams, and/or text chat for meetings held in the relative comfort of an office.