NEWS RELEASE: Cisco Makes Video Easier to Create, Consume, Search and Share Across the Enterprise
Enterprise
Cisco Extends the Reach of Video and Collaboration With New Endpoints
and Cisco TelePresence Recording and Analytics Capabilities
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 24, 2011 - As part of its strategy to enable
organizations to improve business collaboration and communication, Cisco
today unveiled a host of new offerings designed to make it easy for
anyone to be a video producer. Customers now have new ways to create and
consume video across the enterprise. With the new Cisco offerings, they
can:
* Record and share videos and content on the fly from Cisco
TelePresence® or other video endpoints, easily extending the usability
of live or stored video for events, training or organizational
communications.
* Enjoy exceptional search capabilities within videos themselves.
Instead of wasting time scrolling through hours of video to find the
right clip, with a few clicks of a mouse, users can now simply advance
to the right spot -- whether to a spoken word, phrase or desired
speaker.
Cisco also announced a variety of innovations designed to give
customers more ways to easily deploy video pervasively throughout their
organizations, from the desktop to the conference room. These
innovations continue to deliver on commitments made in November, when
Cisco announced that all new enterprise collaboration endpoints will be
video-enabled. Today, Cisco introduced:
* A new 47-inch Cisco TelePresence endpoint, optimally designed for
immersive communications in any office or small conference-room setting.
* A new user interface for Cisco TelePresence endpoints that combines
the best features of Cisco's one-button-to-push technology and a rich
touch-screen feature set.
* The first line of Cisco® Unified IP Phones that have cameras built in
to the devices, offering customers an easy, affordable way to readily
adopt and deploy video communications. These devices, which work with
the entire portfolio of Cisco video endpoints, from the desktop to
immersive Cisco TelePresence rooms, also contain a variety of
energy-saving features, helping companies support green initiatives.
These new offerings, endpoints and experiences, combined with Cisco's
previously announced medianet architecture advancements, can help
customers deploy video more pervasively and streamline video creation,
delivery and consumption.
Key Highlights
Everyone Can Be a Video Producer
* Cisco TelePresence Content Server 5.0
- With the introduction of Cisco's TelePresence Content Server 5.0,
customers have access to an end-to-end video recording and streaming
solution. Users can record a meeting in a Cisco TelePresence session in
premium resolution (1080p at 30 frames per second), or 720p at 60 frames
per second and immediately review, play back and share that recording
with others through integration with Cisco Show and Share®.
- Show and Share, Cisco's enterprise webcasting and video sharing
platform, is now available in French and Spanish as well as English.
Show and Share is also tightly integrated with Cisco Quad TM, Cisco's
enterprise social software platform.
- The Cisco TelePresence Content Server 5.0 is scheduled to be
available globally in March.
* Cisco MXE 3500 Media Experience Engine
The Cisco MXE 3500 (Media Experience Engine) is a powerful and flexible
network appliance that along with the Cisco MXE 5600 provides media
transformation services to discover, connect, record, enrich and deliver
video. New MXE 3500 features include:
- Integration of Cisco Pulse® analytics capabilities for video searches
that can remove the time-consuming process of having to watch hours of
videos just to find the right content. With Cisco Pulse analytics, the
Cisco MXE 3500 automatically tags words and speakers in videos so that
users can easily and quickly search videos and find the speaker and
content segments they need.
- A new browser-based
interface for quick and easy adaptation and
post-processing features. End users can now easily upload files; add a
bumper, trailer, watermark or customized graphic overlay; and select
targeted playback devices like Cisco Show and Share.
- New live-streaming capabilities for live-event support on Cisco
Digital Signage solutions.
* The Cisco MXE 3500 is a key part of the medianet architecture for
any-to-any media adaptation, allowing users to capture and share media
from any endpoint on any platform. The new interface, additional
live-streaming capabilities and Cisco Pulse analytics option will be
available in phases, scheduled to start in the second calendar quarter
of 2011.
* Cisco Digital Signs for Collaboration
- As announced at the recent Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas, Cisco
has unveiled a solution for streaming live telepresence and other video
content to digital signs.
- Customers can use this offering to expand the delivery of important
messages to employees and students, make emergency announcements to
large audiences, and scale viewership for large corporate "all-hands"
meetings.
- This dynamic solution uses technology from the Cisco TelePresence
Content Server, Cisco Show and Share, Cisco's MXE offerings and Cisco's
Digital Signage.
Video Everywhere
* Cisco TelePresence System 1300 and New User Interface
- The new model in the Cisco TelePresence System 1300 Series has a
47-inch LCD and can be wall-mounted or free-standing, making it an ideal
solution for a variety of deployments where immersive collaboration is
optimal.
- This endpoint will support the Cisco TelePresence Touch 12-inch, a
new and intuitive touch-screen interface that provides one button to
push simplicity and sophisticated layout and sharing controls. The Cisco
TelePresence Touch 12-inch will also support a variety of other Cisco
TelePresence endpoints.
- The Touch user interface lets meeting participants easily access
meeting information, consult a directory and share content.
- Customers currently using Cisco's IP Phones will have the option to
upgrade their endpoints to the Touch 12-inch device, if they so desire.
- This endpoint is scheduled to be available globally summer 2011.
* Cisco Unified IP Phones 8941 and 8945
- Expanding on Cisco's commitment to provide video on all new
enterprise endpoints, Cisco's Unified IP Phones 8941 and 8945 ship with
a built-in video camera for high-quality (VGA) video communications, and
a 5-inch high-resolution display, helping users capture nonverbal
communications that are missed on audio-only calls.
- With the IP Phone 8941, Cisco is the industry's first provider of an
IEEE Power over Ethernet (PoE) Class 1 video phone. The phone is
recognized for having the lowest power draw, even during the workday.
Both the IP Phone 8941 and 8945 offer a "deep sleep" option, reducing
power in off-work hours.
- The phones are equipped with Bluetooth hands-free wireless
capabilities, adding freedom and convenience. The phones support a
variety of headsets, including the Jawbone ICON for Cisco Bluetooth
Headset.*
Quotes:
* Marthin De Beer, senior vice president, TelePresence, Emerging
Technologies & Consumer Business, Cisco:
"As the market transition to video takes place globally in the
enterprise, we believe it's critical that our customers have the ability
to easily work across the video workflow: from the creation and
production of video, to consumption and sharing capabilities. We also
believe that they should have access to devices and offerings that work
together in a seamless and intuitive way. Cisco is committed to driving
ongoing innovation that delivers on our vision for the pervasive
deployment of video."
* Sarah Wardlaw Jones, IT manager of instructional technology,
University of Georgia, College of Pharmacy:
"The University of Georgia College of Pharmacy utilizes the Cisco
TelePresence Content Server in conjunction with Cisco video conferencing
endpoints to capture live lectures and pre-
record learning modules that
our PharmD students can access over the university's Learning Management
System, eLearning Commons. Our students and faculty have rapidly adopted
this form of content capture, which has resulted in hundreds of hours of
recorded educational content. Our integration of the Cisco TelePresence
Content Server with our existing video conferencing network has become a
critical service that our department provides to the College of Pharmacy
and is serving as a model on the University of Georgia's campus as one
method of what can be done with content capture in higher education."
* Bruce Callow, director, ICTS, Griffith University, Australia:
"We are a large multi-campus research and educational institution with
five regional locations and are participating in research in many global
areas. Communication between our students, faculty and staff is vitally
important to us to enhance our learning and teaching, research, and
administration. We are looking for Cisco's new IP Phone 8941 and 8945
endpoints to enable us to affordably deliver high-quality video
communications on every desk. Our faculty and staff can benefit by
receiving visual cues and body language that is integral to personalized
learning and research collaboration. We will also enjoy the
energy-saving features, Bluetooth capabilities for hands-free
conversation and interoperability with our previously deployed Cisco
room-based video endpoints."
Additional Resources:
* For information about the new products and Cisco's enterprise video
strategy, please visit www.cisco.com/go/pervasivevideo
* For information about Cisco's collaboration portfolio and strategy,
please visit www.cisco.com/go/collaboration
* For more information on Cisco initiatives regarding medianet
architectures, please visit: www.cisco.com/go/medianet
* For information on Cisco's business video solutions:
www.cisco.com/go/businessvideo
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