ZDNet Dictionary Definition
- Telepresence
- Meaning "long distance presence," it refers to videoconferencing applications that feel like a live meeting. Notable features are larger screens that may approach a virtual reality environment and sensors...
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ZDNet Resources
- Cisco tweaks telepresence for the whiteboard
- Cisco is taking its telepresence video codec and moving it to a virtual whiteboard. At the Gartner Emerging Technologies Conference Tuesday, Cisco's Guido Jouret outlined a virtual whiteboard technology that the networking giant has in its labs. The term telepresence refers to videoconferencing applications that feel like...
- Tags: Health Care, Cisco Systems Inc., Telepresence, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- telepresence gains traction; Is your network ready?
- Can your network really handle unified communications and video intensive video applications like telepresence?That question is one you should be asking yourself after Cisco's fourth quarter earnings conference call. Cisco reported net income of $1.9 billion, or 31 cents a share, on revenue of $9.4 billion for its fiscal fourth...
- Tags: John Chambers, Network, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., CEO, Video Application, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Scrounging around Enterprise 2.0 on Boston's waterfront
- ZDNet multimedia wingman Matt Conner and I are at CMP's Enterprise 2.0 conference today and tomorrow looking for interesting video opportunities. So far, the lineup is shaping up pretty nicely. Today, I interviewed Cisco's senior veep of emerging technologies Marthin De Beer about the company's claims to have revolutionized the...
- Tags: Web technology, Telephony, Office 2.0, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Cisco's 1080p 'telepresence' solution at Interop
- Cisco's 1080p 'TelePresence' solution at InteropCisco 1080pA standard Video conferencing system with 768 Kbps ( V. 264++) offers a reasonable business quality conferrencing to be a driver to save on travel. so in my opinion this high tech Gizmo may not be a very attractive piece to look at in...
- Tags: 1080p, LifeSize, Telepresence, Cisco Systems Inc., Sony Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-23
Additional Resources
- Cisco's virtual health care project
- At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Las Vegas, Guido Jouret, chief technology officer of Cisco's Emerging Markets Technology Group, shows how patients and doctors will be able to meet via the company's TelePresence conferencing technology. The system is being piloted with Scotland’s national health service.
- Tags: Healthcare
- Videos 2008-04-10
- News to know: WGA for Office; RSA; Apple; Adobe
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to add the Genuine Advantage 'nag' to Office Dennis Howlett: Secure coding: the invisible elephant RSA wrap: Larry Dignan: How will Microsoft's trusted stack work? Trusted Internet initiative aims for security...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., RSA Security Inc., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Cisco: Rethinking power for an always-on world
- Over the past few weeks, I've been updating my knowledge of green tech perspectives by talking to the executives running sustainability efforts at some of the biggest companies. A couple of days ago, I updated you about Xerox. Now, it's Cisco's turn. Paul Marcoux, vice president of...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-30
- Selecting a Network Service Provider for Cisco telepresence Solutions
- A breakthrough technology for remote meetings, Cisco TelePresence integrates advanced audio, ultra-high-definition video and interactive collaboration tools with the underlying network as the platform to deliver an immersive meeting experience. Through this powerful combination of technology and design, local and remote participants feel as if they are in the same...
- Tags: Cisco TelePresence, Network, Network Service, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco TelePresence Experience
- White papers 2008-03-01
- News to know: Black Hat; VoIP design flaws; Vista SP1; Apple
- Notable headlines: Nate McFeters: Black Hat, Day 1: Cracking GSM and skimming ATMs George Ou: Design flaw in wireless VoIP handsets endanger the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft fleshes out small-, mid-size Windows server plans Microsoft suspends distribution of Vista SP1...
- Tags: Black Hat, VoIP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Flaw, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Cisco green-speaks! Chambers outlines how telepresence, remote work options can aid the green movement
- For some time, I have been somewhat puzzled by how quiet Cisco and some of the giant networking and telecommunications companies have been about their green intentions. Especially considering the fact that telcos supposedly account for something like 4 percent of the energy usage here in the United States. But...
- Tags: Idea, Cisco Systems Inc., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Remote medicine ready for prime time?
- The flip answer is yes. Didn't you see House after the Super Bowl? Since I last wrote about this a week ago, there has been a flood of new publicity in this area. Much of the push is fueled by Cisco, which has a...
- Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., Medicine, Problem, Diagnosis, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Cisco to Combine Google's Android, UC and Enterprise 2.0
- I met with Cisco's distinguished engineer Cullen Jennings for unified communications last week, where he showed me a new concept demo that lays out where Cisco is going with mobility and Unified Communications UC. Think Google's Android pro ject for the enterprise and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Cisco's second quarter in line; Sees slower growth ahead
- Updated: Cisco Systems on Wednesday reported fiscal second quarter earnings of $2.1 billion, or 33 cents a share, on revenue of $9.8 billion. Excluding charges, Cisco reported earnings of $2.4 billion, or 38 cents a share. The results matched Wall Street estimates, according to Thomson Financial. However,...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Report: maker of Ojo VoIP/videophone likely on bankruptcy path
- Report: maker of Ojo VoIP/videophone likely on bankruptcy pathCisco should buy themI recently saw an ad for "Cisco Telepresence."If Ojo isn't the best product to add to their teleconferencing portfolio, I don't know what is. It's been out a while, people have them, and incorporating Ojo into their stable...
- Tags: Litigation, Telephony, Cellular phones, Ojo, bankruptcy path, videophone, bankruptcy, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2008-02-05
- Cisco delivers next-generation switch--Nexus 7000
- Cisco is rolling out its Nexus 7000 family of data center-class switches that Jayshree Ullal, senior vice president of Data Center, Switching and Services at Cisco, said was the most significant announcement by the company in the last decade. The Nexus 7000 is a modular mega-switch that...
- Tags: Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Nexus 7000, NX-OS, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- Enterprise telecom spending: The big unknown following AT&T's consumer comments
- AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson delivered the quotes heard around the technology industry. Stephenson's comments on Tuesday about consumers not being able to pay their bills rattled the stock market. But what about enterprise telecom spending? First, here's what Stephenson said in comments at the Citigroup Entertainment, Media...
- Tags: CIO, AT&T Corp., IP, Enterprise Telecom, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Cisco telepresence Enhances Customer Relationships, Reduces Travel Expenses, and Increases Productivity
- General business goals for Cisco also motivated the search for effective tools to replace in-person meetings. One corporate goal was to reduce travel expenses by 20 percent while creating a new way of work that increases employee interactions with customers, partners, and colleagues. Cisco also wanted another option for effective...
- Tags: Cisco TelePresence, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco TelePresence Meeting Solution
- Case studies 2007-12-18
- Lead the telepresence Experience and Expand Market Opportunities
- The attended of this webcast will learn how service providers can play an important part in rolling out new, ground-breaking collaboration technology from Cisco. With TelePresence, users will gain access to tremendous revenue opportunities and be miles ahead of the competition, all with minimal risk. The webcast explores how to...
- Tags: Cisco TelePresence, Collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2007-12-01
- Cisco, Wipro team up; Cisco launches 'I-Prize'
- Cisco and Wipro will team up in a strategic alliance that aims target emerging markets. The alliance comes just a day after a similar partnership with Satyam to target the health care market. Under the agreement (blog post, company statement), Cisco will create a Cisco Solutions Centre on Wipro's...
- Tags: Team, Wipro Technologies, Cisco Systems Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- LifeSize rocks the HD conferencing world with affordable 720p solutions
- LifeSize Communications was the first company to release an HD conferencing solution which I covered at Interop Las Vegas spring 2005. Now at Interop fall 2007 in New York, it appears that LifeSize has again rocked the video conferencing world by releasing 720p HD products at half the price of...
- Tags: Solution, Microphone, Video Conferencing, Furniture, Video, HD, LifeSize Express, Corporate Communications, Marketing, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
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