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.”