ūmi telepresence has also rapidly become the standard for high quality video calling inside the home. Since Cisco unveiled the ūmi product line in October, thousands of individuals have selected the technology to interconnect in entirely new ways with their friends and family members. They are getting together to share their holidays, organizing family get-togethers and celebrating their birthdays, even if they are situated thousands of miles away from each other.

We have always understood that high-quality video experiences will be inescapable during the course of our professional and personal lives. Cisco took a big step forward in delivering on this vision by broadcasting additions to the Cisco umi telepresence product range and compatibility between Cisco Business TelePresence and umi telepresence inside the home.

The new product additions to the Cisco umi range include the new umi 720, which supplies the best-in-class video calling experience which people have come to anticipate from Cisco but at a reduced price point and necessitating reduced bandwidth.

Cisco also launched ūmi Connect for PCs and Macs to extend the umi experience to the desktop computer. ūmi Connect is now obtainable as a free download.  Product trials are developing well and both products will be obtainable early in summer.  Cisco has also broadcast a price discount for the umi 1080, now available for just $499.

Connecting Cisco TelePresence in the office workplace to ūmi inside the home has momentous consequences and opens up a vast prospect for businesses, government, and educational institutions to supply services via high-definition (HD) immersive video experiences.

The prospects are limitless. Physicians can now consult with their patients at home; a teacher in California can now interact with a classroom located in Asia, and this is just the beginning. The opportunity is correspondingly noteworthy for service providers, who will now possess a new class of services which they can offer, and for customers who will obtain access to services never-before-possible via the realistic video experience of Cisco telepresence, from the luxury of their own homes.

The network is now prepared to supply a variety of new experiences into the home. We like this as a transformative opportunity to revolutionize the way in which people live, work, play and learn. The work we are now able to accomplish with a city in Asia serves as a primary example of what’s promising. The government there is already in the testing phase and attempting to bring business and citizen services to customers via their HDTV by connecting Cisco TelePresence in office locations with ūmi systems in customers’ homes.

Video has been a dominant, disrupting technology for both businesses and customers, and we are extremely excited about the prospective of Cisco’s expanded ūmi product line to empower further embracing of Cisco telepresence technology in the home.

By connecting together the home and business, Cisco telepresence experiences over video ready networks, we believe Cisco Telepresence can offer more value-added services which will significantly benefit both businesses and customers.

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