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This document provides an overview of the Cisco Collaboration Systems. It describes the Cisco Collaboration Systems approach, lists the main features of Cisco Collaboration components, and illustrates the various Cisco Collaboration Systems deployment models.
Note | From Release 10.0 onward, Cisco Unified Communications System is rebranded to Cisco Collaboration Systems to better reflect the Collaboration products included in the solution. |
Note | Not all Collaboration System product release versions may be available at the same time. For latest product version availability, see individual product support pages at, http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/support/index.html. |
Note | Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (Cisco HCS) is a hosted solution that includes various Cisco Collaboration Systems release components. For more information about Cisco HCS see: Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution and Cisco HCS Product Support. |
A Cisco Collaboration System offers many features and solutions that allow people to collaborate effectively. It offers a coherent experience that connects people with people in familiar, intuitive, natural, simple ways using any media or device, at any time, while integrated with business processes. This integrated collaboration architecture with a converged voice, video and data network includes many products from Cisco’s Collaboration portfolio.
Enterprise, mid-market or small and medium businesses can implement various system deployment models such as single site, multiple sites or cloud. Cisco Collaboration Systems Release 10.0(1) is backwards compatible with both Unified Communications System Release 9.0(1) and 8.6(1).
Collaboration without boundaries — With Cisco Collaboration Edge Architecture, remote and mobile experience is consistent both inside and outside the network. It provides secure business to business and consumer to business communication and cloud services.
Note | Collaboration System Release 10.0(1) currently supports the Collaboration Edge infrastructure that you will be able to utilize when Collaboration Edge-enabled endpoints and clients become available in early 2014. |
Pervasive Video Conferencing — Cisco Video Conferencing enables best in class conferencing across the enterprise and enables integration with WebEx cloud services. Cisco's Pervasive Conferencing solutions offer easy to use, affordable, any-to-any multiparty video conferencing. Cisco TelePresence Server and Cisco TelePresence Conductor, key elements in Cisco’s Pervasive Conferencing solutions, provide high quality video collaboration throughout the enterprise.
Unified management — With Cisco Prime Collaboration, single sign-on capability for system administrators simplifies network and license management of multiple Cisco Collaboration products.