TechWiseTV episode 39 (62:00 min) Explore the newest collaboration solutions from Cisco that eliminate the technology barriers between organizations. Technology Focus: Unified Communications Register to watch full episode	Viewer Rating 4.34

Enabling more effective collaboration among teams of people that extend far beyond the safe confines of your corporate firewalls is quickly becoming vital for businesses of all sizes. How can you empower your employees to work more transparently with partners, suppliers, and customers at a myriad of locations while maintaining effective security and control?	Agenda Bridging the Productivity Gap Federating Presence TelePresence Gets Even More Personal WebEx Connect Makes Web 2.0 Work

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ANNOUNCER: Welcome to TechWise TV on the Cisco interaction network. Please remember to submit your technical questions in the field provided at the bottom of the viewing console. You can also e-mail questions, comments and suggestions to techwisetv@cisco.com. Thank you for joining us and enjoy the show.

VALERIE ST JOHN: What technologies are driving the biggest changes in how work gets done? Today we look at how businesses are turning to technology to foster better collaboration inside and outside the company.

ROBB BOYD: The increasing ubiquity of network access and connected devices has created unprecedented opportunities to improve
collaboration and this is great for business.

VALERIE ST JOHN: We'll talk about how social networking technologies are being adopted to suit standard business practices.

JIMMY RAY PURSER: It's understanding how people want to communicate, how they want to talk, how they want to get this message across and us taking the controls.

VALERIE ST JOHN: We'll look at how Federated Presence extends productivity beyond your Cisco network by getting servers from different vendors talking to each other.

DAVE LIZOTTE: How do you sync up all of these systems to make sure that one system can say I have the most up-to-date information on Presence or I/O capability.

VALERIE ST JOHN: TelePresence live from your own office or home, we'll introduce you to the new CTS 500 Personal TelePresence unit.

NATHAN SHAW: Typical HD is roughly 1.5 Gigs or so, that's a lot of bandwidth.

JIMMY RAY PURSER: Heavy duty.

NATHAN SHAW: Yes, so we're actually able to compress that down to over a 99% compression ratio to roughly 5 Megs.

VALERIE ST JOHN: And we pull back the curtain to show you how WebEx is expanding beyond the web conference with the WebEx Connect platform.

UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: This is your virtual war room. So here's I've got a space. It's my conference room, I can see who's in the space right now and what their status is.

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