Cisco announced today that its Tunis office has become the first business premises in Tunisia to offer Cisco TelePresence(TM) exchanges. Unveiled in Cisco's Tunis offices last week, the Cisco TelePresence solution offers a live, face-to-face experience that enables people from different offices and cities around the world to meet virtually using the power of the network. Cisco TelePresence meeting participants can share content, create high-quality video recordings of events, consult with experts, and deliver powerful personalized services, all using the network for an immersive in-person experience.
In Tunisia, Cisco TelePresence technology offers more than a virtual meeting experience for businesses. Health care professionals, for example, will be able to collaborate more easily, regardless of location, thereby improving both the timeliness and the quality of care delivered. Patients will have access to physicians and specialists from remote locations. The Cisco TelePresence infrastructure is also ideal for applications of telemedicine such as specialist or radiologist consultations. Likewise, for educational establishments, Cisco TelePresence Classroom will help transform the learning environment, providing a means to bring education to remote locations and also connect with colleges, institutions and tutors from around the world.
Highlights / Key Facts:
-- Setting up a Cisco TelePresence meeting is as simple as making a phone
call, and when participants sit down at the conference table in a
Cisco TelePresence room, other participants appear to be sitting
across the table, in life size, no matter where they are in the world.
-- The Cisco office in Tunis has been installed with the Cisco
TelePresence System 1300 Series. With a streamlined, elegant design,
one screen, and three cameras, the Cisco TelePresence System 1300
Series can support meetings with up to six people in a regular
conference room. Built-in lighting produces high-quality,
natural-looking video by eliminating facial shadows. Nearly any
conference room with its existing table can be used. Built-in support
for audio conferencing and display for presentations provide extra
value, while bandwidth needs are reduced to a single video stream of
the active speakers for optimized return on investment.
-- For businesses in North Africa, Cisco TelePresence technology will
bridge geographical divides, by enabling highly secure virtual
meetings with multiple locations inside or outside the corporate
firewall. Ultimately, the solution will help to save costs and boost
productivity by reducing travel and will facilitate a greener company
environment by reducing its carbon footprint.
-- The 'real-life' meeting experience provided by Cisco TelePresence
technology is delivered through ultra-high-definition video that
reveals subtle facial expressions conveying nonverbal reactions.
Spatial audio allows the transmission of every nuance of the
conversation and enables participants to interact as they would in
person.
-- As other businesses in Tunisia adopt Cisco TelePresence solutions, an
expert on investment products based in a Tunis bank, for example, will
be able to have face-to-face private meetings with customers in Mahdia
and Sousse without having to travel a long distance. Similarly, a
geological data analyst for an exploration company will be able meet
face-to-face with several teams in London, New York and Bangalore in
one day and still attend to personal commitments.
