Cisco Continues to Reimagine Collaboration-and is Time its Personal

Cisco Continues to Reimagine Collaboration-and This Time its Personal Priced to scale to every worker, Ciscos new personal collaboration tools connect people, conversations, and data in ways that can rapidly accelerate business outcomes

The DX80 has a 23-inch screen and comes equipped with the new Intelligent Audio feature. This feature would ensure that the colleague on the screen would not hear noise from the meeting going on in the background of this shot-even if that meeting got very loud.

The DX70

Ciscos IP Phone 8800 Series

Ciscos IP Phone 8800 Series at work

SAN JOSE, Calif. and SAN FRANCISCO May 19, 2014 Today at CiscoLive! 2014, Cisco continues to reimagine the way we connect with those inside and outside of our organizations by delivering three new personal collaboration tools designed to help get highly collaborative work done without technology hassles getting in the way. Two of these tools sit on the physical desktop and one resides in the cloud.

People who are working together on the same team or task arent necessarily on the same continent let alone in the same room but they need to feel as if they are so they can do their best, most inspired work. Now more than ever, businesses must provide every worker not just top executives with tools that allow them to collaborate at a moments notice, without technology hassles, so they can get work done. Excellent collaboration technology for all is no longer a "nice to have" its a "must have". Business success relies upon this both today and tomorrow, as future generations will continue to push the envelope in terms of where, when, and how work gets done.

The innovations Cisco announces today help customers quickly and simply connect people, conversations, and data in ways that can rapidly accelerate business outcomes and they are priced to scale to every worker.

New innovations include:

On the desktop: personal collaboration devices that are fit for a CEO but priced for every worker

Somewhere in the pursuit of the perfect collaboration environment, workers desktops became cluttered with technologies purpose-built for specific tasks (e.g., voice-only phones, webcams, monitors). Having so many different technologies for unique tasks clearly adds cost for the company and complexity for the IT manager who must support them; it also adds frustration for users, who have different experiences as they move between different devices and collaboration modalities throughout the day.

Cisco aims to solve this with its new DX70 and DX80 desktop collaboration devices. Similar to how smart phones revolutionized our mobile lives, the Android-based DX70 and DX80 streamline and simplify our work lives by providing access to all the top tools and applications highly collaborative work requires. While this integrated desktop experience is fit for a CEO, it is priced to scale to every worker.

Top user benefits include:

- Unparalleled Experience. With large screens that are completely operated by touch, the Android-based DX70 and DX80 bring together in one device Ciscos deep expertise in HD video, high-end audio, and Web conferencing plus integrated business applications and Web browsing. The result is a collaboration experience unlike any other.

- Customizable Workspace. Using the fully-featured Android operating system, these devices possess a proven architecture with well-documented APIs so organizations and 3rd parties can develop applications to address specific needs be it a whiteboarding application or an integration with their CRM tool or a vertical application.

- Stunning Design. The DX70 and DX80 not only eliminate desktop clutter, but have sleek, inviting lines and are excellent examples of Ciscos award-winning "Scandafornian"* design.

- Smart Technology. The DX80 also comes equipped with Intelligent Audio, a brand new feature to ensure that what you see is what you hear; the person on the receiving end of your call sees and hears you he will not hear distracting background noise (be it the barking dog in your home office or talkative coworkers in an adjacent workspace). Additionally, the devices come equipped with Ciscos recently announced Intelligent Proximity, so you can "pair" your DX with your mobile phone and have access to your personal contacts and call history, as well as move calls that are in progress similar to the way you can transfer a call from your mobile phone to your car.

- Shareable Experiences. These devices are well suited for shared work environments since they can "remember" different users; a user simply enters his login credentials and the device quickly serves up his stored settings, contact lists, call histories and more.

In the cloud: your permanent rendezvous place, CMR

Cisco has deep and unparalleled experience delivering world-class video experiences via our on-premise telepresence solutions. At the same time, weve built the worlds largest real-time collaboration service in the cloud: Cisco WebEx . Today were combining the power of telepresence with the scale and flexibility of WebEx to deliver what we call Collaboration Meeting Rooms (CMRs). CMRs provide everyone with their own personal, private, always-available video collaboration space in the cloud. These rooms give you the ability to host meetings where attendees can join from the device of their choice whether they choose a Cisco video endpoint, many other standards-based video endpoints, desktop or mobile clients (such as WebEx), or even a soft client like Microsoft Lync to join your private cloud meeting room. Its as easy as clicking your unique room URI.

Top user benefits include:

- Meet your way. Cisco CMRs can accommodate more concurrent users than any other enterprise-grade solution on the market. Additionally, users can schedule meetings, conduct instant meetings or meet in a permanent always-on meeting room using a dedi

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