décembre 2009 Archives

Jim Butz and Brad Lewis talk about Telepresence and how it is different from traditional video conferencing. Utilization on Telepresence in some customers reaches up to nearly 100%. Jim tells us that Cisco now has over 630 telepresence rooms deployed, up from 270 two years ago. This has helped them avoid 77,000 trips abroad and saved $309 million in travel expenses. Brad adds that travel avoidance is not the only reason to deploy telepresence, and that another customer SBM Offshore, uses it primarily for product development.