[Cialug] OT: Video Conferencing

[Nathan C. Smith]

Anybody set up and manage a business-style conference-room video
conferencing system?  What are the requirements to allow for the greatest
interoperability with the video conferencing systems of other companies or
organizations?  Or is interoperability even possible?

Is h.323 _the_ standard?  
Do you just buy a polycom system of some type and have done with it?

At our firm this has always been a chicken & egg problem: we have no client
demand for video conferencing, therefore we have no video-conferencing
system, and no clients who request video conferencing, etc.

If anybody knows about these kinds of things I would be grateful for some
pointers or links.

Thanks.

-Nate