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Cisco “Connected Cities”

jerome — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:25:01 +0000

This is how it looks like when two “cafeterias” (one in Zürich and one in Rolle) are connected over Telepresence for 3 days… the video is great but seeing it live was really great and actually quite a disruptive experience! Making it permanent would definitively improve collaboration within the company!

Links

jerome — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:24:49 +0000

La “Telepresence” vous connaissez ? Le Temps propose un article intéressant aujourd’hui…

BuddyPress “acquired” by Automattic… Wordpress is going social, which makes sense since blogging is the essence of social netorking… wonder how I will be able to integrate that in some projects…

Holographic Telepresence

jerome — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:25:12 +0000

Marthin de Beer, GM Emerging Technology Group, present on stage with John Chambers at the Bangalore opening while actually located in California. Who says magic ?

Stamm@Cisco yesterday

jerome — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:43:12 +0000

Second W2 stamm was held yesterday at Cisco. I am glad it went fairly well with good presentations and some very interesting networking. There was even a quick Telepresence demo at the end but first Joanna, my colleague, introduced Cisco’s involvement into Second Life. By the way here are the SLurl to Cisco’s island and a link to the official Cisco’s Virtual World blog which also talk about Second Life of course.

In the second presentation, Stephane Cheikh talked about his experience at SITA on how to implement a customized corporate RSS reader with live example and he shared his lessons learned.

Third presentation was done by Matthias Lüfkens who introduced the World Economic Forum on Facebook.

Photos and videos will be published soon. Next stamm is in Zürich at Cablecom Headquarters. Programm is known you just need to subscribe to join the party!

Links:
J.-C. Morand: Des formateurs virtuels pour CISCO chez Secondlife and a set of pictures on Flickr.

TelePresence in 24

jerome — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:11:46 +0000

TelePresence is a big word for Cisco, and while talking about it around me I realized that it is not as well known as I expected. It does make sense since it is pretty expensive product that targets big company but there might be something similar for the “mass” market.
Anyway what is TelePresence ? In one sentence: Cisco TelePresence is a new technology that combines rich audio, high-definition video, and interactive elements to deliver a unique in-person experience—over the network.

Videos are available on YouTube: (1), (2), (3) but this one is taken from Fox’ “24″ that features a scene with Cisco TelePresence 300 Suite (season 6). Generally speaking it is funny how I started to see Cisco IP phone or advanced technology in soap and movie while I did not care beforehand… :-)

TelePresence on Cisco France website

UPDATE: Apparently it was also featured on “Vanished” but I do not know this show.