Videoconferencing has long served as a general purpose or horizontal meeting tool. Hence, videoconferencing is used by a wide range of industries and government agencies today for business meetings. Videoconferencing has also been an important component of distance learning with higher education institutions, enabling students to benefit from remote instructors and shared access to experts and specialized programs.

In the past few years, videoconferencing has also moved into many interesting small and large niche areas such as:

Telemedicine:
Doctors can consult with specialists such as surgeons and cancer care physicians to speed decision making. Patients unable to attend remote clinics, too sick to travel.

Manufacturing and Oil Industry:
Engineers and management can leverage specialists across multiple regions to work on shared projects, close deals and share knowledge, specially with remote site offices.

Banking and financial services:
Banking institutions can leverage specialists across multiple regions and large geographies.