Video Conferencing, Telepresence, Audio Visual & Video Conference
Last week at Enterprise Connect 2012, Cisco made some exciting new announcements regarding their market-leading telepresence product portfolio. According to Telepresence Options the new Cisco TelePresence TX9000 was “clearly a highlight, not only of the Cisco booth, but of the entire show”.
According to the 2011 annual Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Global 500 report, more than two-thirds (68%) of leading global firms have incorporated climate change initiatives into their business strategies, a huge rise of 20% on 2010 figures. The CDP Global 500 report, which examines carbon reduction activities within the the world’s largest public corporations, also [...]
A medianet is an end-to-end architecture for a network comprising advanced, intelligent technologies and devices. Offered by Cisco, medianet architecture integrates a smarter network with smarter endpoints to simplify the deployment and operation of various media and applications.
Unified communications (UC) has risen in popularity and is gaining increased prominence in the visual communication world. Not really all that new, UC is the integration of real-time communication services, such as presence, IM, video and voice.
The telepresence revolution is sweeping through firms who have understood the business case for immersive video collaboration. Once thought to be too expensive and lavish for all but the richest companies, telepresence solutions are now becoming not just more accessible but, more importantly, affordable.
Traditionally, videoconferencing has been predominantly used by the business world. From its early development in the early 1970’s to the recent surge in interest since TANDBERG became part of Cisco, the key application for video-based communications is to enhance business decisions and add value to an organisations bottom line, usually from huge savings on travel budgets.
In the last year there have been increasing instances of global disruption to business. First swine flu, then record winter snow storms and BA’s cabin crew dispute, and now a volcanic eruption, all of which have highlighted the weakness of a business world so reliant on its international connections.