TelePresence, the next generation of video conferencing, is transforming the way people collaborate, giving them the tools to work:

·         In teams of any size

·         No matter where each person is located

·         In real time

·         As if they were all sitting in the same room together

The realism and quality of telepresence enhances the communication value of your meetings. Quality and collaboration capabilities are far beyond typical video conferencing. Suddenly, you're able to catch every comment and nuance of the conversation. At the same time, you save money, time, and energy wherever you use it.

Accelerate Innovation Through Collaboration

Telepresence solutions are helping innovative managers transform a variety of corporate and industry settings and applications--from video conference rooms to auditoriums and fashion industry catwalks.

Here are some of the many benefits our customers have experienced:

Optimize Your Time

Frequent video participants report saving at least two hours weekly, with one-third reporting at least one day saved per week.These participants report that telepresence solutions help them save money, improve work-life balance, increase their competitive advantage, and bring people closer together.

Do More with Less

When you have a lean team and a tight budget you can make the most of your resources. In fact, the cost of two international business trips will pay for a video conferencing system.

Accelerate Your Return on Investment

Many customers reduce their business travel by 30 percent or more when implementing video. The typical organization saves enough on travel to gain back its video investment in a matter of months. Trygvesta, a large Nordic insurance company with two million customers, reduced travel from 180 to 130 trips per month, saving at least $120,000.

Consider the Opportunity Costs

The true cost of travel is not just a plane ticket and hotel. Time on the road could be spent being more productive, bringing new products to market, reducing repair time, or meeting with more clients. Use the Business Advantage Calculator to see how video can benefit your business in particular.

Be Greener

Here is another way to reduce Co2 emissions: 100 employees using video once a week instead of commuting would save the equivalent of a forest the size of five football fields.

How to Get Started

We can help you select the right applications and solutions to support your specific business strategy and business models. Cisco can also work with your IT staff to set up pilot programs within important departments. You will be making a transformation to the new way to work on a foundation of quality, reliability, and interoperability across industry standards.

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Create, Innovate, and Respond Faster

Now you can combine all forms of business communications into a single, unified solution to help your employees, customers, suppliers, and partners communicate with each other, quickly and easily, without obstacles.

Less Travel, More Productivity

By using its own TelePresence solutions, WebEx and standard audio-video conferencing, Cisco cut travel expenses by approximately US$400 million per year. Cisco also:

·         Shortened its average sales cycle by five days

·         Improved sales closure rates by two percent (valued at US$127 million)

·         Increased productivity for senior and executive management and other experts (valued at US$42 million)

Read the full article in Transnational Travel News.

Better Communication Improves Results

·         Organizations using unified communications clients saved an average of 32 minutes per day, per employee

·         The use of softphones saved an average of US$1,727 per month in cell phone and long distance charges

·         Those using integrated voice and Web conferencing reported a 30 percent reduction in conferencing expenses

·         Employees saved 43 minutes per day because of more efficient message management

In fact, roughly 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies now use Cisco Unified Communications to build competitive advantage.

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mobile collaboration system addresses the unmet needs of millions of physical workers worldwide. ICSME provides a mobile video collaboration experience that expands traditional video conferencing from the boardroom to include physical workers who are on the assembly plant floor, in a nursing home, at a repair depot, or in an oil field. Our vision - to visually connect physical workers to the right person at the right time to get the right answer - has driven tangible returns to customers across a wide variety of industries such as manufacturing, energy, field service, telemedicine and many others through an effective mobile video collaboration system.

Enterprises use Mobile Collaboration Solutions today to provide live mobile video collaboration between these remote workers and subject matter experts to solve problems, manage projects, inspect equipment or diagnose patients. ICSME provides a range of handheld, wireless video camera devices and video collaboration software applications that fit the needs of these different customers. Mobile Collaboration Solution streams live video, includes a VoIP call, and provides onscreen telestration capabilities within a fully SIP compliant infrastructure for a live mobile collaboration experience that drives results.

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By connecting people, information, and devices securely, reliably, and seamlessly, Cisco Borderless Networks can help you:

-       Protect assets and mitigate risks

-       Maintain business continuity

-       Achieve growth through productivity

ICSME can provide:

-       Switches

-       Routers

-       Wireless

-       Network management and Automation