New Immersive Room System Transforms How TelePresence can be used in High-Impact Meetings; Integrates with New Jabber Releases for iPad, Windows

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 17 April 2012– Cisco today introduced new people-centric innovations aimed at making it easier for people in Africa and globally to collaborate anywhere, anytime in the post-PC era.

The innovations, ranging from new desktop and mobile Cisco Jabber collaboration applications to Cisco TelePresence systems, make it easy for users to move from one collaboration solution to the next based on how they work and their immediate task at hand (for example, moving from instant messaging to voice to video with the click of a button). The new Jabber and TelePresence offerings, which include a new immersive TelePresence system with optimised collaboration capabilities, are completely integrated, giving customers more mobility options while also extending the reach of their TelePresence investments.

Cisco is specifically announcing:

  • Powerful tools to extend the reach of TelePresence. Cisco is extending Cisco Jabber to iPad and Windows, building on its extensive Jabber portfolio for Android, iOS, Mac, BlackBerry and Cisco Cius tablets. With this development, Cisco is enabling Jabber customers to collaborate from anywhere and across the most popular operating systems utilising high definition video, voice, presence, instant messaging, desktop sharing, conferencing and visual voicemail. Cisco is also expanding native integration between Jabber and TelePresence, giving mobile users a way to initiate and connect into a TelePresence session whether in the office or on the go.
  • A new three-screen immersive TelePresence platform. The Cisco TelePresence TX9000 Series delivers the highest quality video experience along with advanced collaboration capabilities*, further building on Cisco's wide array of TelePresence endpoints for customers of all sizes. The TX9000 integrates with collaboration tools like Cisco WebEx with One-Touch simplicity and is also designed to be interoperable with all standards-based endpoints from other vendors.

These innovations are occurring as the need for rich video solutions and mobility is burgeoning. According to Cisco's latest Visual Networking Index, globally, 3 trillion minutes or 6 million years of video content will cross the Internet each month in 2015 and by 2016, global mobile data traffic will reach 10.8 exabytes per month (130 exabytes annually); growing 18-fold from 2011 to 2016. By 2016, mobile video will represent 71 percent of all mobile data traffic. Middle East and Africa will have the highest regional mobile data traffic growth rate, with a CAGR of 104 percent, or 36-fold growth.

Supporting Quotes:

Michael Smith, Director, Cisco Collaboration Group:
In a world that is increasingly mobile, social, visual and virtual, individuals are dictating how, when and where they communicate and collaborate inside and outside of the workplace. With today's TelePresence and mobility announcements, Cisco is continuing to make "any device to any device" a reality, while helping customers collaborate on their own terms, on a range of devices that provide a rich and consistent user experience.

Michel De Beauregard, Head of Collaboration Sales at Cisco South Africa:
These new Cisco developments come at a time when people increasingly expect freedom of choice in how and where they work, and that includes having access to a variety of integrated collaboration solutions and interoperable endpoints – both hardware and software based. In Africa, IT managers are looking to provide highly secure, enterprise-class options that enable employees to interact across a broad range of tools, whether collaborating via Video, PCs, Macs, tablets, or smart phones – and any standards-based endpoint, within and between organisations.

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