Cisco TelePresence Inter-Company

Providing a true in-person virtual meeting experience within the enterprise enables customers to reduce travel and improve productivity. However, extending the virtual meeting experience beyond a local enterprise provides businesses additional benefits, enabling them to meet with partners and customers. For any collaboration tool to reach its full potential, it must extend beyond the boundaries of a single enterprise. However, there are always challenges providing collaboration tools that extend from one company’s network to another. With today’s focus on security, and the different security policies implemented by companies, the challenges continue to grow.

The Cisco TelePresence Inter-Company architecture provides a secure intercompany solution for Cisco TelePresence. Following this architecture, service providers are building outand offering Cisco TelePresence solutions. These solutions also provide customers with options for different deployment scenarios depending on which provider is used. Some providers offer customers the option to connect their existing Cisco TelePresence deployment into their Cisco TelePresence Inter-Company network, whereas other carriers provide managed or hosted Cisco TelePresence deployments as well. Advanced services are available with these intercompany offerings providing concierge services, multipoint services for intercompany meetings, and scheduling for intercompany meetings, providing the simplicity of One-Button-to-Push dialing for end users.

Another area of growth is public Cisco TelePresence suites that provide added benefit to customers with intercompany connectivity. Public Cisco TelePresence suites allow customers to conduct TelePresence meetings with employees on the road, customers or partners without Cisco TelePresence deployments, or interviews with potential employees. These public suites are available to anyone and are usually rented by the hour, allowing connectivity to any TelePresence system on the Inter-Company network.

Cisco TelePresence Inter-Company will continue to expand offering new services and features, dramatically expanding the reach of TelePresence. The Cisco TelePresence offering continues to add features for providers, allowing them to expand their secure TelePresence Inter-Company network while continuing to offer additional advance services.