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Show Page Times-Thursda- March 25, 1982 y. BY JERRY OLSEN It was the first time Ive ever experienced anything like teleconferencing. In fact, it was the first attempted video conference with the media Hercules has made to date that I was a part of. T.V. and Teleconferencing is a two-wa-y audio system which closely duplicates face to face confrontations. I sat in front of video cameras and microphones along with other reporters in the video conference at Hercules. Out images and voices were actually being transmitted via satellite to the Hercules earth station (or location) in Wilmington, Delaware. In turn, voices and video images were transmitted from Wilmington to the video conferencing on-n- transmitting written documents. Total cost savings for letters will be about six cents per sheet which is cheaper than mailing. Hercules expects to save over $1 billion with the new system over a ten year period. A SBS satellite, which was launched a year ago, establishes a network that makes 20 lines available at Bacchus with freeze fram teleconferencing at a rate of a 10-seco- nd image delay. Hercules employes are also able to place long distance business calls at low unit cost per call. Robert C. Hall, president of Satellite Business Systems, said the system is capable of mixing multiple transmissions from either one location or multiple locations. For instance, a teleconference can be held between three or more locations. Hall added that as many as 48 million bits of information per second can be transmitted over the system. A bit is the smallest unit of information. Since the signal is transmitted digiatally through the system, there are no significant problems with solar and atmospheric conditions. et room at Bacchus. A on-nis a location which has a et satellite dish. Hercules has three at Bacchus, W ilmington, and Oxford, Ga. Heres how it works. Messages are sent via a large satellite dish at Bacchus to a SBS satellite, which is in orbit around the earth. The message is then scrambled to digital within the satellite, and is then transmitted to the video conference room in Wilmington via the satellite dish. Hercules calls the new system the first fully integrated business satellite system in Utah. Hercules chairman and president A.F. Giacco said that thousands of daily business phone calls and date transmissions will be carried over the Hercules Integrated Telecommunications System on-ne- ts (HITS). The company projects a cost savings from 27 cents per minute to 17 cents per minute. The system is also capable of n H erodes Integral ed Telecommunications System (HITS) is starting with Htree Earl Stations in east, south and west. Western linkup is in Salt Lake City. |
