Cisco TelePresence

With Cisco’s Telepresence you can win 3000 $!

Why do want Cisco TelePresence ?  Answer this question in a video format, and submit your entries before 8^th of September 2009 and win 3000 $.

 Amazing right!  Cisco TelePresence recently launched a video contest “Why I Want Cisco TelePresence”

The video contest is designed to entice individuals from around the world to submit their ideas about why or how they would like to use Cisco TelePresence in their work lives – how they might connect to co-workers or peers in other locations; the benefits they would uniquely reap; why they would be the ideal person to use a Cisco TelePresence system. Winners in two categories, Productivity and Shaping the Future, have a chance to win $3,000 each.

The Contest is open to individuals who: (1) are at least 21 years of age as of the Contest start date and (2) work or have worked within a professional organization that uses technology. Submission period ends at September 8, 2009 at 11:59 p.m.

Cisco’s innovative EnergyWise technology improves Green Practices

If you all are looking for a complete green solution for your Data Center using Cisco Catalyst® switches, there is good news with Cisco EnergyWise software.  The most interesting fact of the innovative Cisco EnergyWise technology for Cisco Catalyst® switches that measures, reports and reduces the energy consumption of Internet Protocol (IP) devices such as phones, laptops and access points. Cisco also announced industry partner solutions along with an intelligent middleware acquisition that will ultimately enable the management of power consumption for entire building systems such as lights, elevators, and air conditioning and heating.

Facts:

• Cisco EnergyWise was purpose-built in alignment with Cisco’s vision of how networking technology can support a low-carbon economy, cut energy use and promote overall environmental sustainability.
• Cisco EnergyWise is part of the company’s technology roadmap for changing the value-chain of information technology (IT) by placing the intelligent network squarely at the center of how companies reduce greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions across their entire organization.
• Cisco EnergyWise will roll out in three phases to improve IT and building system energy utilization:
  • In the first phase (February 2009), Network Control, Cisco EnergyWise will be supported on Catalyst switches and manage the energy consumption of IP devices such as phones, video surveillance cameras and wireless access points.
  • In the next phase (Summer 2009), IT Control, there will be expanded industry support of EnergyWise on devices such as personal computers (PCs), laptops and printers.
  • In the final phase (Early 2010), Building Control, Cisco EnergyWise will be extended to the management of building system assets such as heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), elevators, lights, employee badge access systems, fire alarm systems and security systems.
• Cisco EnergyWise provides real-time, granular measurement capabilities to give chief information officers better visibility into energy savings across an entire organization as well as specific places in the network such as the campus, branch office and data center .
• Cisco EnergyWise supports currently deployed Catalyst switches worldwide with a free software upgrade and new Catalyst switches beginning in February 2009.
• Cisco is working with Schneider Electric for building utility management, SolarWinds for network monitoring, and Verdiem for monitoring PC power in order to extend EnergyWise as a platform for power management across IT and the building systems of an organization by early 2010.
• Cisco also announced the acquisition of Richards-Zeta’s intelligent middleware to provide simplified and cost-effective interoperability and integration between building infrastructure, IT applications and Cisco EnergyWise.
• The new Cisco Green Business Value Calculator provides customers with projected cost and GhG emission-saving results from adopting Cisco EnergyWise and other green technologies such as Cisco TelePresence^TM, Cisco WebEx^TM and Cisco Unified Communications.
• Cisco also introduced adaptive power management functionality in the Cisco Wireless Control System to save power by enabling customers to turn off redundant radios during off hours.

Supporting Quotes:

• “Cisco believes that information technology has the power to transform the way the world manages its environmental and energy challenges. With EnergyWise, Cisco is uniquely positioned to help our customers gain a networkwide view of energy consumption that encompasses not only device-level power, but in the future entire network efficiency, building operations and business practices across an entire organization,” said Judy Lin, senior vice president of the Ethernet Switching technology group for Cisco.
• “With the organizationwide visibility that Cisco EnergyWise provides, we anticipate potential annual reduced energy savings of 15 to 20 percent conservatively across our portfolio of commercial office buildings. This could equate to energy savings of 19 to 33 cents a square foot, which over the course of a year could be thousands of dollars in energy related savings,” said Jeff Ton, vice president of IT for Lauth Property Group.
• “As a global specialist in energy management, we help our customers to make the most of their energy,” said Jean-Pascal Tricoire, CEO of Schneider Electric. “Today, through the monitoring and control of energy usage with energy efficiency products, Schneider Electric’s solutions deliver up to 30 percent energy savings to residential, commercial and industrial buildings. Using the network as a platform through Cisco EnergyWise, we will be able to bring additional reductions in energy consumption, offering our customers an efficient, simple, and reliable infrastructure.”
• “With SURVEYOR, Verdiem’s commitment to reducing the environmental impact of technology has already helped our customers save up to 60 percent of their PC networks’ energy consumption. Verdiem is proud to be working towards a Cisco EnergyWise enterprise network energy management agreement because not only is EnergyWise good corporate citizenship, but in the future it will also help improve business performance and most importantly, gives corporations a reliable way to meet their sustainability goals,” said Jeremy Jaech, Verdiem’s CEO.
• “SolarWinds provides powerful, simple and affordable network management solutions to thousands of IT organizations around the world. Within the year, the integration of Cisco EnergyWise and SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor will allow network engineers to easily manage energy use alongside the other metrics they monitor on a daily basis,” said Kenny Van Zant, chief product strategist.

Supporting Resources:

• Video on EnergyWise with John Chambers
• Check out the Cisco EnergyWise Demo
• Read the “Cisco Ecolibrium” blog post
• Customer video with leading United Kingdom retailer John Lewis Partnership
• Customer video with Friends Provident, a financial services company in the United Kingdom
• Customer video with the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom

Cisco TelePresence Rooms for Public Use launched

Tata Communications, a leading provider of the new world of communications, announced the launch of its TelePresence rooms available for public use in the United States and United Kingdom, linking to additional public rooms in Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai, India. The collaboration between Tata Communications and Cisco is the first managed telepresence service in the world to deliver public and private Cisco TelePresence  rooms to companies globally. This new service will allow companies and individuals to use Cisco TelePresence  for one-off meetings.Tata Communications is working with Cisco, Taj Hotels owner, the Indian Hotels Company Limited, and the Confederation of India Industry (CII) to offer public telepresence facilities which are available for rent on an hourly basis. The first phase of public rooms was launched in India in July at the Taj Hotels in Mumbai and Bangalore, and CII offices in Bangalore and Chennai. Tata plans to make 100 rooms available globally by the end of 2009.For further information on Tata Communications Telepresence Services visit www.tatacommunications.com/telepresence

Cisco® I-Prize innovation contest winners are….

Cisco announced the winner of the Cisco® I-Prize innovation contest, a global competition held to identify a major business opportunity for Cisco. The winning team , is based in Germany and Russia, came up with a business plan for Cisco that improves the energy efficiency by taking an advantage of Cisco’s leadership in Internet Protocol (IP) technology.

Since the winning team based in two counties they relied on Cisco’s collaboration portfolio of Cisco TelePresence, Cisco Unified Communications and the new Cisco WebEx® Connect application platform, to virtually present their idea to Cisco.

The winning team was led by Anna Gossen, a computer science student at the Karlsruhe University in Germany. With the help of Niels Gossen, a computer science student at the University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and Sergey Bessonnitsyn, a systems engineer from Russia, the team is eligible to receive US$250,000 in cash to be equally shared among the team members. The team may also be considered for opportunities to join Cisco.