Cisco Expands Collaboration Portfolio

New Delhi, May 17, 2012: At its Annual Cisco Collaboration Summit 2012, Cisco today introduced new people-centric innovations aimed at making it easier to collaborate anywhere, anytime in the post-PC era. The innovations, ranging from new desktop and mobile applications include Cisco Jabber and Cisco TelePresence systems, which make it easy for users to move from one collaboration solution to the next with ease (for example, moving from instant messaging to voice to video with just the click of a button). The new Jabber and TelePresence offerings, which include a new immersive TelePresence system with optimized collaboration capabilities are completely integrated, giving customers more mobility options while also extending the reach of their telepresence investments.

Some of the collaborations solutions announced at the event include:

Powerful tools to extend the reach of TelePresence: Cisco is extending Cisco Jabber to iPad and Windows, building on its extensive Jabber portfolio for Android, iOS, Mac, BlackBerry and Cisco Cius Tablets. With this development, Cisco is enabling Jabber customers to collaborate from anywhere and across the most popular operating systems utilizing high definition video, voice, presence, instant messaging, desktop sharing, conferencing and visual voicemail. Cisco is also expanding native integration between Jabber and TelePresence, giving mobile users a way to initiate and connect into a TelePresence session whether in the office or on the go.

Jabber for Everyone: To further advance the collaborative workspace and make collaboration more pervasive for customers around the world, Cisco is offering presence and instant messaging (IM) capabilities and Cisco Jabber clients available to all Cisco Unified Communications Manager customers at no additional cost. With this development, Cisco is now providing its customers a way to simply and cost effectively make presence and IM available across a plethora of devices including Windows, Mac, iPad, Cisco Cius, iPhone, Blackberry, and Android (later in 2012) while also ensuring they deploy a unified communications client that is BYOD-ready.

A new three-screen immersive TelePresence platform. Called the Cisco TelePresence TX9000 Series which delivers the highest quality video experience along with advanced collaboration capabilities, further building on Cisco's wide array of TelePresence endpoints for customers of all sizes. The TX9000 integrates with collaboration tools like Cisco WebEx with One-Touch simplicity and is also designed to be interoperable with all standards-based endpoints from other vendors.

These announcements come at a time when people increasingly expect freedom of choice in how and where they work, by having access to a variety of integrated collaboration solutions and interoperable endpointsboth hardware and software based. In addition to above announcements, Cisco Collaboration Summit 2012 also showcased enterprise-class solutions that can enable employees to interact across a broad range of tools whether collaborating in dedicated immersive telepresence rooms or via PCs, Macs, tablets, or smart phones and any standards-based endpoint within and between organizations.

At a time when the need for rich video solutions and mobility is burgeoning, solutions like those from Cisco help enhance the ability to collaborate. According to Cisco's latest Visual Networking Index, globally, three trillion minutes or six million years of video content will cross the Internet each month in 2015 and by 2016, global mobile data traffic will reach 10.8 exabytes per month (130 exabytes annually); growing 18-fold from 2011 to 2016. By 2016, mobile video will represent 71 percent of all mobile data traffic.

Speaking to the press Bryan Tantzen, Senior Director, Collaboration, Cisco said, The post PC era is requires a workspace that is more mobile, social, visual and virtual. Customers need secure, enterprise-class options that enable employees to interact across a broad range of tools. We at Cisco understand this and are delivering on the need of people-centric collaboration experiences that offer anytime and anywhere communications.

According to Dinesh Malkani, Managing Director, Collaboration, Cisco APAC, Cisco is committed to extending the reach of unified communications, video and collaboration to benefit everyone in the enterprise. Jabber for everyone increases collaboration choices for customers; this isnt just for those customers who happen to have a Cisco IP phone. Its for every employee in an organization - regardless of device (mobile or desktops), application or operating system (Like Apple iOS, Windows etc)!

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