The votes are in, and the results have been tabulated. According to a recent Nemertes study, a whopping 75% of companies polled indicate they’re putting greater emphasis on video conferencing this year. This confirms our ever-growing trend towards the time- and cost-savings of video conferencing.

For enterprises that are looking to reduce costs by limiting travel, video conferencing offers an effective alternative -- if it's done right. As enterprises begin to roll out high-quality desktop video conferencing (often utilizing the WAN for cost and flexibility reasons), they face many issues that can result in less-than-stellar performance, including frozen video, out-of-synch video and audio, and dark blocks or "artifacts" that mysteriously enter the picture.

To successfully deploy video conferencing services, avoid these eight common mistakes, then sit back, relax, and enjoy the show: