General manager of national managed services at the Australian consultancy, Phil O'Brien, said he sought out a new form of communication for the company's 1150 staff members, based in five different locations.

"We act as a national business... so it was primarily driven by the national view of our operations," he said. "As well as this, having an office in Hyderbad [in India], we thought we'd improve the communications across staff."

O'Brien said Oakton, which provides IT services in partnership with Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, looked to video conferencing after ruling out desktop conferencing and Skype.

"They certainly have their place and we do use them, but we wanted a more robust more compromised solution," he said.

Oakton , installing the vendor's high definition video conferencing unit, Room 220, in its Melbourne office. The remainder of its offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra and Hyderabad installing LifeSize Express 220.