TelePresence

Globalization has increased the need for video communications systems that allow for remote collaboration among geographically dispersed colleagues and partners. Increasingly, business discussions must include not just multiple people, but multiple locations.

Video communications systems that deliver life-sized, high-resolution images and CD-quality audio are changing the game of business. Many of today's video communications and collaboration tools provide a big productivity boost.

Cisco TelePresence: A New Approach to Video Communications

Standard video communications systems can be difficult to set up, challenging to use, and frequently unsatisfying in quality. Cisco TelePresence is a remote collaboration solution that far exceeds the limitations of traditional video communications.

Cisco TelePresence creates an "in-person" meeting experience over a converged Internet Protocol (IP) network. Unlike standard video communications systems, Cisco TelePresence delivers real-time, face-to-face interactions between people and places using advanced visual, audio, and collaboration technologies.

Cisco TelePresence does what traditional video communications systems cannot. Cisco TelePresence participants can easily discern facial expressions, significantly enhancing crucial business discussions and negotiations around a "virtual" conference room table.

The net result: Cisco TelePresence can have a profound effect on your organization's ability to build sales, profitability, and business agility.

Standards-Based Communications

While other companies developed proprietary networking technologies, Cisco built what is now the accepted standard for communications: the Internet Protocol (IP) network. Cisco has focused on the convergence of data, voice, and video on IP networks. Today, Cisco is the leader in enterprise voice systems, with a comprehensive unified communications solution of converged voice, video, data, and mobility products and applications.

Cisco TelePresence video communications solutions build on the company's innovation and leadership. Cisco TelePresence revolutionizes remote meetings by using intelligent network services to connect coworkers, customers, and partners over a global IP network.

Cisco TelePresence is:

• As reliable as your Cisco network. As the leading provider of IP networks, Cisco delivers dial-tone reliability inside and outside of your enterprise network so you connect with confidence.
• As simple as a phone call. Cisco TelePresence is integrated with your enterprise groupware and unified communications, so you can schedule Cisco TelePresence meetings with tools you use every day.
• As flexible as you need it to be. Cisco offers more Cisco TelePresence endpoints and applications than any other supplier. With Cisco TelePresence, you can create virtual meeting places for one-on-one discussions, virtual tables for global group meetings, and virtual agents with fully integrated contact center application capabilities. You can also conduct multipoint meetings that include three or more locations and up to 96 participants.