Cisco Unveils New 'Mobile-To-Immersive' Offerings

Cisco has introduced new people-centric innovations aimed at making it easier to collaborate anywhere, anytime in the post-PC era. The innovations, ranging from new desktop and mobile applications include Cisco Jabber and Cisco TelePresence systems, which make it easy for users to move from one collaboration solution to the next with ease (for example, moving from instant messaging to voice to video with just the click of a button). The new Jabber and TelePresence offerings, which include a new immersive TelePresence system with optimised collaboration capabilities are completely integrated, giving customers more mobility options while also extending the reach of their telepresence investments.

Cisco is extending Cisco Jabber to iPad and Windows, building on its extensive Jabber portfolio for Android, iOS, Mac, BlackBerry and Cisco Cius Tablets. With this development, Cisco is enabling Jabber customers to collaborate from anywhere and across the most popular operating systems utilising 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 office or on the go.

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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 client that is BYOD-ready.

The Cisco TelePresence TX9000 Series which delivers the highest quality video experience along with advanced collaboration capabilities, further building on Cisco’s wide array of TelePresence endpoints for customers of all sizes. 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.

Bryan Tantzen, Senior Director, Collaboration, Cisco 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.”

According to Dinesh Malkani, Managing Director, Collaboration, Cisco APAC, “Cisco is committed to extending the reach of unified communications, video and collaboration to benefit everyone in the enterprise. ‘Jabber for everyone’ increases collaboration choices for customers; this isn’t just for those customers who happen to have a Cisco IP phone. It’s for every employee in an organisation – regardless of device (mobile or desktops), application or operating system.”