1. Cisco TelePresence ISM 158 April 20, 2010 Amy Lin

2. Why use Cisco TelePresence? In today’s economy, no one can manage or run a company alone. It’s all about collaboration with partners, co-workers, colleagues and customers. Sometimes, those people are not local, but located around the world and you need to connect to them at a moment’s notice. And at the same time, you want to conduct your business in a way that enhances the quality of your relationships without the time lag and information delay. That is where Cisco TelePresence comes in.

3. Cisco TelePresence allows you to: 1)Easily schedule conferences – no IT support is required 2)Launch meetings as if making a simple phone call 3)In-room controls are intuitive – collaboration applications are plug and play 4)Have meetings with lots of people in many rooms at the same time – up to 48 locations in one meeting 5)Bring in collaboration applications like Cisco WebEx Meeting Center 6)Integrate existing videoconferencing systems.

4. How is Cisco TelePresence useful? The Cisco TelePresence collaboration experience offers today’s innovative organizations a competitive advantage. It can help you: -Accelerate Decision Making -Innovate Across the Value Chain -Scale Resources -Integrate with other collaboration applications

5. TelePresence 3000 setup includes special tables, microphone- speakers, cameras and lighting, but the cost is $299k Cisco TelePresence was named one of the best products of 2006 in Business Week’s Magazine.

6. PepsiCo deployed Cisco Telepresence systems using the network services of British Telecommmunications in its major offices world wide, thus joining a growing list of multinational companies relying on high-end videoconferencing to cut down on travel costs and improve worker collaboration Procter and Gamble Co. (P&G) have installed dozens of full telepresence rooms, some large enough for more than a dozen people to join a teleconference in one location. Companies utilizing TelePresence

7. With 138,000 workers in 80 countries, P&G estimated it had saved $4 for every $1 invested in the systems through savings in travel costs and improvements in productivity. Cisco and Bank of America announced that the bank plans to roll out 200 Cisco TelePresence systems globally by year's end, making it the largest telepresence network used by a single company so far. The bank currently uses 28 of the systems for employee meetings and training.

8. I think companies should invest in TelePresence despite the initial down payment of about $250k. TelePresence will revolutionize the business industry. It allows companies to do instantaneous conferences at a moment’s call and connect globally with business partners, branches, and colleagues. It saves the companies money for business travel and allows employees to work from home. TelePrescence is expandable to the education and medicine field. Teachers can teach from afar and doctors can instruct emergency stabilizing first aid to EMTs. There is a lot of potential in TelePrescence.

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