Bandwidth-Conserving Real-Time VoIP Teleconference System

Teleconferencing is an essential feature in any business telephone system. A teleconference allows associates to engage in a group discussion by conducting a virtual meeting while remaining at geographically dispersed locations. Teleconferencing increases productivity while reducing travel costs and saving travel time. In a VoIP telephone system, we face the significant challenge of providing a teleconference feature that can support a large-scale teleconference without using excessive bandwidth. This paper presents a new, bandwidth-efficient way of implementing a real-time VoIP teleconference system. This new method provides all of the features that existing teleconference systems provide, but this new approach consumes considerably less data bandwidth than existing systems require. The new system allows a network with a given capacity to accommodate almost double the number of conference participants that an existing system would allow