Interoperabilityįortunately, video interoperability has made tremendous strides over the past two years. While I do not have a TV spot to reference, imagine your weekly sales meeting where you have a few co-workers in a conference room at the headquarters, a couple of people working from home on their laptops, and an executive calling from his personal Telepresence system – all in a single call. You have probably seen the Skype ads showing a traveling working mom or dad speaking with their child back at home (I have to admit, those ads get me every time.) On the other hand, video conferencing is optimized for multi-point calls, which means multiple parties on multiple devices can participate in a single call. Skype is optimized for point-to-point audio and video calls, which means it is designed to support two computers and two participants. Multi-pointĪ key difference is simply what each solution is designed for. In this post we will dig into a quick comparison of Skype and business video conferencing services.

While all those characteristics are ideal, Skype is ripe with limitations when used as a business tool versus a consumer tool. And to be frank, why would you not use Skype? It’s easy to use, well-known and for the most part, free.

Being a video conferencing solutions provider, we get this question a lot.

Skype for business conference settings