One Cisco telepresence suite in a Smart Work Center, for example, could set a city back six figures.
To get an even bigger slice of the video pie, Cisco developed TelePresence, the first unit of which was sold in December 2006.
The quality of video conferencing provided through, say, Cisco's TelePresence system is orders of magnitude better real-time, good picture quality, extremely reliable than what was available even a few years ago.
From award-winning IP communications to mobility, customer care, Web conferencing, messaging, enterprise social software, and interoperable telepresence experiences, Cisco brings together integrated network-based collaboration solutions based on open standards.
The star of course is WebEx and Cisco has charged it with leading a new social platform called Cisco WebEx Social that is a combination of Cisco Quad, WebEx and Telepresence.
In addition to full telepresence interoperability, Cisco Cius offers HD video streaming and real-time video, multi-party conferencing, email, messaging, browsing, and the ability to produce, edit and share content stored locally or centrally in the cloud.
Research conducted by Cisco, which has experimented with telepresence robots in house, found that employees were, oddly, more honest and open with a human-operated robot than with a human colleague.
Cisco's unified communications systems and TelePresence hardware, for instance, which are designed to facilitate easy remote conferencing, may be seen as a cost-cutting measure to replace expensive travel as fuel prices rise.
Along the way, HSBC incorporated Cisco equipment in its data centers and Cisco videoconferencing systems, including its high-end TelePresence technology, in its offices.
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On Monday, Cisco announced several products designed to add features to those telepresence rooms.
Cisco announced that it had shipped its 1, 000th telepresence unit in September after almost two years of availability (see "Tightening The Telepresence Belt").
Nor, for that matter, either Hewlett-Packard, which has a high-quality business video conferencing service called Halo, nor Cisco, which last year bought Tandberg to extend its telepresence business.
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