With public Cisco TelePresence services available from Cisco and its partners, any group can benefit from the most sophisticated collaboration technology available, without capital investment. Public Cisco TelePresence services are as easy to initiate and manage as a telephone conference, with familiar phone features such as hold and mute.
Here are some answers to common questions about public Cisco TelePresence services.
What Is Public Cisco TelePresence?
Participants in public Cisco TelePresence sessions gather around conference tables in specially equipped rooms. Through real-time, life-sized, ultra-high-resolution video and spatial audio, participants in one room appear as if they're seated directly across the table from participants in another room, even when they're actually continents apart.
Public Cisco TelePresence sites are located in public places such as hotels, transportation facilities, and office complexes.
What Are the Benefits of Public Cisco TelePresence?
By renting a public Cisco TelePresence site, a business can improve personal interaction with partners, customers, prospects, consultants, and job applicants. You can reduce travel time, expenses, and your organization's carbon footprint while increasing employee productivity.
How Is a Public Cisco TelePresence Room Typically Used?
Typical business uses of public Cisco TelePresence rooms include conducting meetings and interviewing job candidates; collaborating with remote partners, suppliers, and customers; training new employees and managing remote ones; and leading focus groups.
Families can rent public Cisco TelePresence rooms to celebrate important special occasions. Affinity groups can train volunteers and conduct planning sessions for conferences. Academic groups can collaborate on research projects.
How Do I Do It?
You can rent a public Cisco TelePresence room on an hourly or daily basis. With a public Cisco TelePresence room, you also get complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access; limited print, fax, and copy services; catering on request; and a concierge team. (Services vary by location.)
What Does It Cost?
Rates begin at US$299 per hour for two people per room. Costs and room availability vary according to duration, location, and planned group size. There are no additional fees for connections to private Cisco TelePresence sites.
