Cisco Extends WebEx to Include Social and Telepresence

But in today’s international workplace, simplifying in-person conferences and meetings is more and more problematic with a workforce that’s more and more rotated by time and place.  Even amongst video conferencing solutions the only solution that supplies a natural “in-person” meeting experience is Cisco telepresence . Telepresence produces the closeness of an in-room conference meeting, keeps staff engagement on a high level and proliferates efficiency by getting members together in a virtual manner.

Cisco TelePresence solutions accomodate businesses of all sizes with an extensive endpoint portfolio to meet the requirements of diversified budgets and use cases. This is of critical importance as Cisco telepresence becomes more dominant as clients expand the networks of people they are able to call.  That’s why Cisco had launched Cisco TelePresence Callway back in 2011, a cloud-based Cisco telepresence offer for mid-sized and smaller businesses.

Ongoing with these endeavors, Cisco is bringing into line its product strategy to construct a cohesive people-centric collaboration platform which includes Cisco telepresence. Cisco has launched an expanded set of collaboration capabilities from the cloud to assist with acceleration of this idea under a cohesive brand name, Cisco WebEx.  Comprised in this product launch are reorganized advantages and a branding modification for Cisco Callway to Cisco WebEx Telepresence, as well as a branding modification for Cisco Quad to Cisco WebEx Social.  An extended set of features from Cisco WebEx assists IT to rapidly supply more users with more services, all while ensuring protection, performance and dependability, and enabling users with simple access to their preferred collaboration tools from any device.

Cisco is exclusively placed to provide new services from the cloud founded on industry leading experience via Cisco WebEx, which currently provides the world’s second biggest public cloud for business collaboration solutions. Via the new release of Cisco WebEx Telepresence available by the end of June 2012, Cisco has included added advantages in the subscriptions like:

  • Allowing users the capability to have numerous members on the WebEx Telepresence network join their video calls
  • Unified management of installations via an online user interface
  • Support for new endpoints and devices

Furthermore, subscription tiers have been streamlined and users can take advantage of pre-paying for yearly contracts at a cheaper pricing structure.

In line with what users appreciated from the Cisco Callway service, Cisco WebEx Telepresence provides quick endpoint activation via an Internet connection and maintenance/management controlled by the service via automatic version upgrades.  Users can connect to members by using video conferencing systems on differentiated networks; allowing the users get the maximum out of their IT investments, and enabling Cisco’s current telepresence users to connect to partners and their clients who may be utilizing the Cisco WebEx Telepresence service.  Cisco WebEx Telepresence is obtainable in the U.S. and Canada and sold via Cisco’s channel partners.

Cisco is dedicated to conveying communications-improving video collaboration to enterprises everywhere, no matter the size or budget involved. You can explore Cisco WebEx Telepresence to learn more about the services and hear from Cisco’s satisfied clients.  And please do let us know in case you have any further queries—we would love to assist you in seeing what Cisco telepresence via the cloud can do for your business.

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TelePresence and WebEx Unite to Give You the Best of Both Worlds

What is the significance of this unification?With the existence of tens of thousands of Cisco TelePresence endpoints and in excess of 30 million active WebEx solution users, Cisco endeavoured to make B2B video collaboration easier than ever before in the past. By unifying Cisco’s market leading online Web conference solution, WebEx, with the market leading enterprise high-quality video features present in Cisco’s TelePresence solutions Cisco is facilitating an all-in-one meeting with anybody, anywhere, on any hardware device.

Augmented to function with any standards-based video endpoints, Cisco TelePresence and WebEx assists enterprises to widen the reach of video collaboration and streamline the experience for all members.

What can Cisco’s clients expect by this amalgamation of these two powerful collaboration solutions?

I’ve delineated a few advantages below:

  • Simplicity of Use
    • With One Button to Push (OBTP) you can schedule, simply begin and join in a meeting, WebEx users are able to join by clicking on the WebEx link given to them in the meeting invite
    • You can expect a unified and familiar experience irrespective of whether they select to join a meeting using telepresence or WebEx
  • Flexibility
    • You can invite anybody, selecting to utilize TelePresence and or WebEx, based on who is being invited inside their enterprise or outside via a personalized email invitation
    • These conferences can be planned and performed using tools you are used to like Outlook
    • Via Cisco Jabber, users can interconnect using mobile phones or tablet devices
  • Improved Conferencing Experience
    • Via Cisco TelePresence endpoints users are empowered to experience the finest, realistic video to improve the collaboration experience
    • High definition (HD) video with up to 720p resolution amongst Cisco TelePresence endpoints and WebEx providing a premium experience
    • Share content in the most secure manner inside a conference– like applications and desktop content
  • Scalability
    • Enlarge meeting options for enterprises to simply make video collaboration accessible for anybody to be utilized more widely inside and outside of the enterprise
    • Scale face to face communications through the whole business to nurture and facilitate increased collaboration

This announcement further supports Cisco’s vision of pervasive conferencing  and making video technologies as simplified as voice. It’s a result of Cisco’s exertions to amalgamate the greatest and brightest in Cisco’s solution offerings to improve simplicity of use and flexibility.

Click here to find out more about how TelePresence and WebEx are working in tandem to make an environment where people can work together with ease, from any place and from any device.

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