Video Conferencing Between to offices

Hi Guys,
My company is quite smalll and based in two locations. We're looking for a reasonable solution to do video confrencing between a confrence room in each site. I'd expect that up to 6 people on each end of the conference.
Question: Has anyone used iChat for this and is it a good solution?
I've been looking at the new 20" G5 iMacs - would they work?

Hello Tom and welcome to discussions,
It should work just fine. To get 6 people in the "shot" I think you may have to be seated quite a way from the camera though.
I often chat to people half way across the world with superb video and audio quaility.
Have fun!
Regards
Ian

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