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Bridging the Divide
Imagine conferencing with a group of people in a meeting room making eye contact and all, yet those people are somewhere miles away from the room! This is what Cisco Video Conferencing is all about. Electronically transporting those people onto video screens in a room miles from their location and they can see you as well as everyone else in the room while they conference with the group in an interactive Cisco video conferencing session.
Cisco had developed the Cisco Video Conferencing technology and made it available at a very low cost as well as made it very easy to set up and use. Many business organizations have their video conferencing equipment lying around gathering dust in some store because the equipment is very difficult to setup and use. These systems are not at all reliable and when they are used they offer very low quality video and audio reproduction. Besides scheduling a video conference using these traditional technologies require the participants to set up a combination of e-mail, hard-copy, and verbal communications. Once scheduled, they are frequently hassled by technical issues, either during the initial setup, or during the meeting when difficulty with seeing or hearing members of the conference arises.
Cisco Telepresence is a new category of video conferencing application that offers several significant advantages such as: Integration with enterprise groupware such as Microsoft Outlook, which allows users to schedule Cisco Telepresence meetings in the same way they would send a calendar invitation to someone. Instead of confusing remote-control keypads used with most television-based video conferencing systems, participants of Cisco Video Conferencing can initiate a Cisco Telepresence meeting using a simple telephone keypad. After scheduling, the meeting information is transferred to the meeting room's phone display. Participants simply select the meeting from the display to launch the Cisco Video Conference call. Cisco Video Conferencing cameras are positioned in strategic locations for optimal coverage of the room. This ensures that participants of the Cisco Video Conference do not need to adjust the cameras during their meetings.
The Cisco network provides the same reliability as dial tone, making Telepresence a solution that users have come to depend on, even for external meetings. Cisco services in the network ensure high quality, security, and reliability for every Cisco Video Conference. The result is that meetings start promptly, proceed smoothly, and aren't hampered by audio-visual difficulties, which is especially important for meeting participants who might be attending outside of traditional work hours. Because of improved visual communication, it's more likely that important issues-especially those of disagreement-are more efficiently discussed, with less opportunity for misinterpretation and confusion. With Cisco video conferencing technologies participants can focus on the meeting instead of the technology, which of course is also always part of the discussion.
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