Cisco Enhances its Collaboration Portfolio to Meet the Needs of the Post PC Era

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face="Times New Roman, serif">At
its Annual Cisco Collaboration Summit 2012, Cisco introduced new
people-centric innovations aimed at making it easier to collaborate
anywhere, anytime in the post-PC era. The new Jabber and TelePresence
offerings, which include a new TelePresence system with optimized
collaboration capabilities are completely integrated, giving
customers more mobility options while also extending the reach of
their telepresence investments.

face="Times New Roman, serif">Some
of the collaborations solutions announced at the event include:

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Powerful tools
to extend the reach of TelePresence: face="Times New Roman, serif"> Cisco is extending Cisco
Jabber to iPad and Windows, building on its extensive
Jabber portfolio for Android, iOS, Mac, BlackBerry and Cisco Cius Tab face="Times New Roman, serif">lets. 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
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Jabber for
Everyone: size="3">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
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A new
three-screen immersive TelePresence platform. face="Times New Roman, serif"> Called the Cisco
TelePresence TX9000 Series which delivers the quality video experience
along with collaboration capabilities, further building on
Cisco's wide array of TelePresence endpoints for customers of all sizes. face="Times New Roman, serif"> 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.

face="Times New Roman, serif">Speaking
to the press size="3">Bryan
Tantzen, Senior Director, Collaboration, Cisco face="Times New Roman, serif">
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.”