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Customize Your Video Conferencing Layouts with the Latest TC 6.0 Software Release

At InfoComm 2012, we announced the latest release of our TC software for Cisco TelePresence C Series Codecs.  One of the unique features of TC 6.0 is its layout composing and control, so you can customize your video screen experience the way you want.

Check out the video below to see it in action! Read More »

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Expanding Business Video: What IT thinks about

Business video projects are highly visible and, if well planned, can showcase the strategic value of IT to your organization. Many organizations plan to eventually adopt multiple Business Video tools, such as:

  • Telepresence for collaboration, interviewing, and sharing centralized experts with customers;
  • Conferencing for team meetings and customer training;
  • Digital signage for advertising and employee news; and,
  • Internal web portals for training videos on demand.

When you begin considering just how using video in these ways can transform your business, it is important to understand the impact it will have on IT.  Engaging with a strong service partner like Cisco will help you to identify the architectural considerations as you plan, build and manage these projects. Read More »

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Telephony Integration on EX Series Cisco TelePresence Systems

At InfoComm 2012 product manager Darrick Deel discussed the exciting new features of the TE 6.0 Software release for the EX Series which resulted from tighter integration with Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM).

In this video, Darrick demos new voicemail capabilities and shared line enhancements that enable users to receive telepresence calls on their mobile devices and then transfer the call to the EX console once they return to the office. These new capabilities of TE 6.0 improve Cisco’s TelePresence portfolio and provide greater support to the mobile worker.

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Cisco Joins Open Visual Communications Consortium

Recently I was asked to talk about Cisco’s new membership in the OVCC.   In the video interview below, I explain the reasoning behind the decision to join this organization and also share insights into Cisco’s vision for the future of any-to-any video communications. Watch the video below to learn more about Cisco’s inclusion in the OVCC and our continued commitment to open standards video: Read More »

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A new Application recognition paradigm – Flow metadata (Part 2)

In the first part of this blog we discussed how Flow Metadata addresses encrypted/obfuscated traffic, multi-stream interactions, ensures end-to-end  consistent policies and enables fine-grained policies. In this part of the blog, we discuss additional deployment scenarios making network classification a real challenge and how metadata addresses them.

Deployment Challenges

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