{"id":83445,"date":"2017-07-04T16:40:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T05:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/cisco-launches-video-conferencing\/"},"modified":"2017-07-04T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T05:40:11","slug":"cisco-launches-video-conferencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/2017\/07\/04\/cisco-launches-video-conferencing\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco Launches Video Conferencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing its push beyond networking equipment, Cisco Systems has burst into the video-conferencing market with an expensive system that offers three high-definition video screens, multiple cameras and high-quality audio.<FONT =2>Continuing its push beyond networking equipment, Cisco Systems has burst into the video-conferencing market with an expensive system that offers three high-definition video screens, multiple cameras and high-quality audio.<BR><BR>The aim &#8211; and brand &#8211; is &#8220;TelePresence&#8221;, designed to create virtual meetings so realistic that it seems meetings thousands of miles away are taking place in the same room. High-quality screens as well as speakers and HD cameras are positioned to catch every gesture and nuance and make users feel as if they are in the same room.<BR><BR>Natch, TelePresence doesn&#8217;t come cheaply. Consequently, Cisco says it can grow into a billion dollar business in five to seven years. Cisco&#8217;s chief development officer Charlie Giancarlo. said he wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if in three to four years consumers viewed Cisco as a video company.<BR><BR>But many analysts are sceptical, saying Cisco&#8217;s pricing is too expensive, and that other telepresence (lower-case) vendors have failed to convince more than a handful of companies that the investment is worthwhile.<BR><BR>Cisco says its TelePresence system has been in the works for nearly two years. It&#8217;s not alone. Competing (lower-case) telepresence products come from Hewlett-Packard with its Halo Collaboration Studio, Teliris, Polycom and LifeSize Communications.<BR><BR>Cisco&#8217;s basic TelePresence 1000, targeted at one-on-one meetings or small groups, costs US$79,000. TelePresence 3000, for larger meetings, is installed in the form of a small conference room with three high-definition screens which display participants at life-size. It costs US$299,000.<BR><BR>On top of that, they require high-bandwidth telecommunications, broad enough to handle HD video.<BR><BR>Only 10-15pc of Cisco&#8217;s customers have the necessary communication infrastructure, says Marthin DeBeer, VP of Cisco&#8217;s emerging markets technology group.<BR><BR>Lee Doyle, an analyst with IDC, estimates that fewer than 100 new-wave telepresence systems from all makers have been installed worldwide.<BR><BR>And Elliot Gold, president of TeleSpan Publishing, pours cold water on the gear, saying companies can adopt less-sophisticated forms of video conferencing for as little as US$7000.<\/FONT><BR><BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing its push beyond networking equipment, Cisco Systems has burst into the video-conferencing market with an expensive system that offers three high-definition video screens, multiple cameras and high-quality audio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-archive","category-hardware","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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