20th December 2010: Cisco has opened Cisco TelePresence® rooms at Cisco offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam; Cisco TelePresence technology will reinvent the way we work, says Cisco country manager

21 December 2010. Cisco has opened Cisco TelePresence® rooms at Cisco offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam.

There are now 952 Cisco TelePresence rooms installed at Cisco offices across 249 major cities and 66 countries. Since the launch of Cisco TelePresence, Cisco has scheduled 800,931 meetings using this technology, which has saved more than $737 million in travel costs. In addition, the environment has benefited from the reduction of more than 397,788 metric tons of carbon emissions from forgone air and ground travel.

Lee Chiang Toh, country manager for Cisco in Vietnam, said: “In this global economy that we participate in, we need to be able to connect with colleagues, partners and vendors across geographies and time zones. Cisco TelePresence technology will reinvent the way we work. It will enable us to travel less, which will allow for greater productivity and a smaller environmental footprint. This innovative, real-time, real-life solution will allow companies to utilize the network as a platform for resource scalability and accelerated decision making.”

The Cisco TelePresence System includes a boardroom-style table around three 65-inch plasma screens which seats six participants on each side, as well as a single-panel plasma screen system, which offers the same experience, but with a smaller footprint. These high-definition screens enable participants to see life-size images of each other, including facial expressions, making it look as if they are seated across a table.

This gives individuals the flexibility to join large, multilocation group meetings, or host intimate, remote one-on-one meetings from the personal office.

The Cisco TelePresence Manager software integrates with enterprise groupware and with Cisco® Unified Communications Manager, so scheduling is as easy as sending a Microsoft Outlook calendar invitation. Calls are started with the touch of a button.

The highly immersive collaboration solution combines life-size, ultra-high-definition video, spatial audio, a specially designed environment, and interactive elements to create the feeling of being in a face-to-face meeting with participants in remote locations.

With the support of Cisco Capital with their flexible financing solutions, these Cisco TelePresence rooms will showcase collaboration technologies to businesses in Vietnam, and customers are invited to discover this firsthand by having a complimentary Meeting on Us. For more information, visit:
http://www.ciscomeetingonus.com/