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Cisco Enables Intercompany Communications for Cisco TelePresence
BT Demonstrates First Intercompany Capabilities for Secure, "in-person" Communications
| Source: Cisco
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - December 6, 2007) - Marking the one-year anniversary of Cisco
TelePresence, the breakthrough technology for virtual, "in-person"
communications, Cisco (NASDAQ : CSCO ) today announced that it is delivering
intercompany capabilities for Cisco TelePresence and has successfully
demonstrated the solution with BT through a secure connection across the BT
Global Services network. This groundbreaking technological advancement
will provide businesses with the flexibility and security to have
"in-person" meetings with customers, partners and suppliers with the ease
of a simple phone call.
Cisco has worked closely with key service providers, such as BT, throughout
the development of the intercompany Cisco TelePresence architecture. Cisco
TelePresence integrates advanced audio,
ultra-high-definition video and interactive collaboration tools with the
underlying network as the platform to deliver an immersive meeting
experience. BT's existing Unifed Communication Video Collaboration solution
is based on the Cisco TelePresence solution.
Francois Barrault, CEO of BT Global Services said: "Cisco TelePresence has
the potential to transform businesses by bridging the geographic gap within
organizations and to bring customers and partners together in an extended
ecosystem of communication. The intensely immersive experience allowed by
this tool will also encourage businesses to reduce the carbon footprint
currently generated by travelling to essential face to face meetings across
the world. Delivering on this promise requires a global network
infrastructure which provides the security, scalability and reliability
this new level of convergence and collaboration demands."
The ability to use Cisco TelePresence with end to end security and quality
of service between organizations opens the doors for organizations to
benefit from greater customer intimacy, tighter supply chain connections,
in-person discussions and negotiations or improved customer service, all
while being more environmentally sensitive. Cisco TelePresence is being
used by many organizations to speed decision making, improve
cross-cultural communications, scale scarce resources and move products to
market faster.
"We host thousands of customers annually at our Executive Briefing
Centers," said Bob Basiliere, Director of the Worldwide Executive Briefing
Program at EMC Corporation. "While face-to-face customer meetings will
never go away, Cisco TelePresence enables us to offer our customers a
broader range of topics and conversations with geographically-dispersed
experts by scheduling TelePresence sessions into our briefings.
TelePresence adds a unique, virtually in-person experience that previously
would not have been possible."
The intercompany Cisco TelePresence architecture provides comprehensive
security at the endpoint through authentication and encryption, in the
enterprise network with firewall and NAT traversal, and in the service
provider network through topology hiding and MPLS VPNs. Topology hiding is
accomplished in the service provider network with the Cisco XR 12000
Multi-Service Blade using session border functionality. NAT and firewall
traversal will be enabled through the Cisco Unified Border Element. Ease
of use for the end user is maintained through directory and "one button to
push" scheduling capabilities.
Cisco TelePresence Interoperability
In addition to enabling service providers to deploy commercial intercompany
Cisco TelePresence services via a fully-validated reference architecture,
Cisco is also announcing the ability to interoperate with
standards-based video conferencing.
With Cisco TelePresence interoperability, customers can bring existing
standards-based videoconferencing sessions into a Cisco TelePresence System
3000 or Cisco TelePresence System 1000 meeting. Enhancements to the
existing product line deliver interoperability with virtually all
standards-based videoconferencing systems installed today while providing
customers with a strategy to expand their collaborative functionality to a
wider audience as they manage their Cisco TelePresence roll-outs. With
Cisco TelePresence interoperability, the meeting will preserve the
experience for Cisco TelePresence users, while allowing standards-based
video conferencing users to participate.
Interoperability works through the Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch and
Cisco Unified Video Conferencing, which support multipoint for standard
video conferencing streams as well. Standards supported include CIF, H.323
and G.711. Cisco TelePresence interoperability features will ship in Q2
2008.
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