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VIDEO CONFERENCING

• Video conferencing is being used extensively during lockdown

MAJOR PLAYERS IN VIDEO CONFERENCING

 Zoom vs Skype vs Webex

• Gaining popularity among users across demographies, Zoom app is the recent talk of the street. The app has generated a lot of users’ interest as compared to other platforms such as Skype and Webex. Beating its peers with a huge margin, the Zoom mobile application has already crossed 100 million plus downloads on the Google Playstore.

ZOOM APP AND CHINA

•  US-based video meeting app Zoom courted a fresh controversy when security researchers from Citizen Lab at University of Toronto found that that some Zoom calls are being routed through servers in China, along with conference encryption and decryption keys used to secure those calls. According to the researchers, Zoom appears to own three companies in China through which at least 700 employees are paid to develop Zoom’s software.

IRONY

•  The mainline Zoom app (zoom.us) was reportedly blocked in China in November 2019, there are several third-party Chinese companies that sell the Zoom app within China (zoom.cn, zoomvip.cn, zoomcloud.cn). Citizen Lab said it has initiated a responsible disclosure process with Zoom over Waiting Room vulnerability.

QUESTION ARISES

• Since China has its own video conferencing apps
• U.S dominates the market of video conferencing
• Even Russia has its own Video conferencing app
• Why can’t we have an Indian video conferencing app?

VIDEO CONFERENCING IS THE FUTURE

•  U.S. and U.K. businesses that substitute some business travel with video conferencing can cut CO2 emissions by nearly 5.5 million metric tons in total and achieve total economy-wide financial benefits of almost $19 billion, by 2020, according to a new study commissioned by the Carbon Disclosure Project and sponsored by AT&T..

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