Introduction

Cisco Systems, Inc is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs, manufactures, and sells networking equipment. The stock was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 8,2009, and is also included in the S&P 500 Index, the Russell 1000 Index, NASDAQ 100 Index and the Russell 1000 Growth Stock Index. Cisco designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology (IT) industry and provide services associated with these products and their use. It provides a broad line of products for transporting data, voice, and video within buildings, across campuses, and around the world. Their products are designed to transform how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. The products are installed at enterprise businesses, public institutions, telecommunications companies and other service providers, commercial businesses, and personal residences. Cisco conducts its business globally and is managed geographically in four segments: United States and Canada, European Markets, Emerging Markets, and Asia Pacific Markets. The Emerging Markets segment consists of Eastern

Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, and Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. They strive for faster decision making with greater accountability and alignment to support their emerging countries and their five foundational priorities as discussed below, beginning in fiscal 2012, Cisco will organize into the following three geographic segments: The Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and Asia Pacific, Japan, and China (APJC). Ciscos vision can be stated as: Changing the way they work, live, play, and learn. Ciscos mission is: To shape the future of the Internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for customers, employees, investors, and partners. At Cisco customers come first and an integral part of their job is creating long-lasting customer partnerships and working with them to identify their needs and provide solutions that support their success. The concept of solutions being driven to address specific customer challenges has been with Cisco since its inception. Husband and wife Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, both working for Stanford University, wanted to email each other from their respective offices located in different buildings but were unable to due to technological shortcomings. A

technology had to be invented to deal with disparate local area protocols; and as a result of solving their challenge - the multi-protocol router was born. Since then Cisco has shaped the future of the Internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for our customers, employees, investors and ecosystem partners and has become the worldwide leader in networking transforming how people connect, communicate and collaborate.

History
1984 1995: Early Years
Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, a married couple who worked as computer operations staff members at Stanford University, later joined by Erich Drafahl, founded Cisco Systems in 1984. Lerner briefly moved on to direct computer services at Schlumberger, but returned full time to Cisco in 1987. The name "Cisco" was derived from the city name, San Francisco, which is why the companys engineers insisted on using the lower case "Cisco" in the early days. For Cisco's first product, Bosack adapted multipleprotocol router software originally written some years before by William Yeager, another Stanford employee who later joined Sun Microsystems. The company's first CEO was Bill Graves, who held the position from 1987 to 1988. In 1988, John Morgridge was appointed CEO. On February 16, 1990, Cisco Systems went public (with a market capitalization of $224 million) and was listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange. On August 28, 1990, Lerner was fired; upon hearing the news, her husband Bosack resigned in protest. The couple walked away from Cisco with $170 million, 70% of which was committed to their own charity. Although Cisco was not the first company to develop and sell dedicated network nodes, it was one of the Cisco Systems campuses in San Jose first to sell commercially successful routers supporting multiple network protocols. Classical,

CPU-based architecture of early Cisco devices coupled with flexibility of operating system IOS allowed for keeping up with evolving technology needs by means of frequent software upgrades. Some popular models of that time (such as Cisco 2500) managed to stay in production for almost a decade virtually unchanged - a rare sight in high-tech industry. Although Cisco was strongly rooted in the enterprise environment, the company was quick to capture the emerging service provider environment, entering SP market with new, high-capacity product lines such as Cisco 7000 and Cisco 7500. Between 1992 and 1994, Cisco also acquired several companies in Ethernet switching, most notably Kaplan, Grand Junction and Crescendo Communications which together formed the Catalyst business unit. At the time, the company envisioned layer 3 routing and layer 2 (Ethernet, Token Ring) switching as complementary functions of different intelligence and architecture the former was slow and complex, the latter was fast but simple. This philosophy dominated the company's product lines throughout 1990s. In 1995, John Morgridge was succeeded by John Chambers.

19962005: Internet and Silicon Intelligence

The phenomenal growth of the Internet in mid - to late 1990s quickly changed the telecom landscape. As the Internet Protocol (IP) became widely adopted, the importance of multi-protocol routing declined. Nevertheless, Cisco managed to catch the Internet wave, with products ranging from modem access shelves (AS5200) to core GSR routers that quickly became vital to Internet service providers and by 1998 gave Cisco de-facto monopoly in this critical segment. In late March 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom, Cisco became the most valuable company in the world, with a market capitalization of more than US$500 billion. In November 2011, with a market cap of about US$94 billion, it is still one of the most valuable companies. Meanwhile, the growth of Internet bandwidth requirements kept challenging traditional, software-based packet processing architectures. The perceived complexity of programming routing functions in silicon, led to formation of several start-ups determined to find new ways to process IP and MPLS packets entirely in hardware and blur boundaries between routing and switching. One of them, Juniper Networks, shipped their first product in 1999 and by 2000 chipped away about 30% from Cisco SP Market share. Cisco answered the challenge with home-grown ASICs and fast processing cards for GSR routers and Catalyst 6500 switches. In 2004, Cisco also started migration to new high-end hardware CRS- 1 and software architecture IOS-XR.

2006current: The Human Network:

As part of a massive rebranding campaign in 2006, Cisco Systems adopted the shortened name "Cisco" and created "The Human Network" advertising campaign. These efforts were meant to make Cisco a "household" brand a strategy designed to support the low-end Linksys products and future consumer products (such as Flip Video camera acquired by Cisco in 2009). On the more traditional business side, Cisco continued to develop its extensive enterprise-focused routing, switching and security portfolio. Quickly growing importance of Ethernet also influenced the company's product lines, prompting the company to morph the successful Catalyst 6500 Ethernet switch into all-purpose Cisco 7600 routing platform. However, limits of IOS and aging Crescendo architecture also forced Cisco to look at merchant silicon in the carrier Ethernet segment. This resulted in a new ASR9000 product family intended to consolidate company's carrier Ethernet and subscriber management business around EZChip-based hardware and IOS-XR. Cisco also expanded into new markets by acquisition - one example being a 2009 purchase of mobile specialist Starent Networks that resulted in ASR5000 product line. Throughout mid-2000s Cisco also built a significant presence in India. Establishing its Globalization Centre East in Bangalore for $1 billion planning that 20% of Cisco's leaders would be based there. However Cisco continued to be challenged by domestic AlcatelLucent, Juniper Networks and overseas competitors Hawaii. Due to

lower than expected profit in 2011, Cisco was forced to reduce annual expenses by $1 billion. The company cut around 3,000 employees with an early-retirement program who accepted buyout and planned to eliminate as many as 10,000 jobs (around 14 percent of the 73,400 total employees before curtailment). During the 2011 analyst call, Cisco's CEO John Chambers called out several competitors by name, including Juniper and HP.

Media and awards:

Cisco products, most notably IP phones and Telepresence, are frequently sighted in movies and TV series. The Company itself and its history were featured in the documentary film Something Ventured which premiered in 2011. Cisco was a 200203 recipient of the Ron Brown Award, a U.S. presidential honour to recognize companies "for the exemplary quality of their relationships with employees and communities". Cisco commonly stays on top of Fortune "100 Best Companies to work for", with position No. 20 in 2011.

Products and services

Cisco's current portfolio of products and services is focused upon three market segments Enterprise and Service Provider, Small Business and the Home. The solutions for each market are segmented into Architectures, which form the basis for how Cisco approaches each market.

Corporate market: Enterprise networking and Service Providers

1. Borderless networks: for their range of routers, switches, wireless systems, security systems, WAN acceleration, energy and building management systems and media aware networks.

2. Collaboration: IP video and phones, TelePresence, HealthPresence, Unified Communications, Call Centre systems, Enterprise social networks and Mobile applications. 3. Datacenter and Virtualization: Unified Computing, Unified Fabric, Data Centre Switching, Storage Networking and Cloud services. 4. IP NGN (Next Generation Networks): High-end routing and switching for fixed and mobile service provider networks, broadcast video contribution/distribution, entitlement and content delivery systems.

Small businesses:
1. Routers and switches (including those for networks of smart meters) 2. Security and surveillance: IP cameras, data and network security solutions, etc. 3. Voice and conferencing solutions: VOIP phones and gatewaysystems, WebEx, video conferencing 4. Wireless: WiFi Access points 5. Network storage systems

Home user:
1. Linksys product line of access points, switches, etc. 2. Broadband: cable modems

Routing:

Routing technology is fundamental to the Internet, and this technology interconnects public and private IP networks for mobile, data, voice, and video applications. Ciscos routing products are designed to enhance the intelligence, security, reliability, scalability, and level of performance in the transmission of information and media-rich applications. They offer a broad range of routers, from core network infrastructure and mobile Internet network for service providers and enterprises to access routers for branch offices and for telecommuters and consumers at home. Key products within the routing category are the Cisco 800, 1900, 2900, and 3900 Series Integrated Services Routers as well as the Cisco Aggregation Services Routers (ASR) 1000, 5000 and 9000 Series; Cisco 7600 and 12000 Series Routers; and the Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS), CRS-1 and CRS-3. During fiscal 2011, Cisco introduced enhancements to the ASR 9000 System, which complement the Cisco CRS-3 located in the core of the next-generation Internet. Cisco believes these new enhancements will help enable compelling new experiences for consumers, new revenue opportunities for service providers, and new ways to collaborate in the workplace.

Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers

Global IP traffic is forecast to reach nearly a zetta byte by 2015 and will traverse more than 15 billion devices, compelling network operators to seize growth opportunities while monetizing new services. Operators must also optimize operations, reduce expenses, and improve scalability and flexibility - all to deliver Next-Generation Internet experiences across all devices and locations. Cisco is evolving its service provider architecture to deliver capabilities for the Next-Generation Internet, which must be more mobile, more visual, more virtual, and yet more simple to manage. This architecture will allow carriers to: Monetize new, profitable services Optimize network performance and efficiency Reduce operational costs and complexity Enhance customer experiences.

The Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers can serve as the foundational baseline for next-generation Carrier Ethernet networks, providing up to 96 terabits (Tbps) per system.

Simplify the Network: The Cisco ASR 9000 system incorporates innovative technologies such as Cisco Network Virtualization (nV) technology, which intelligently blends the edge, aggregation, and access points to simplify operation and accelerate IPv6 services. Two new nV enabled platforms provide additional flexibility and support to optimize service delivery. Working together, the components of Cisco ASR 9000 system can provide the network scale needed to deliver new mobile Internet services while minimizing operational complexity. Flexible Service Delivery and System Resiliency: The Cisco ASR 9000 Series is a true carrier-class solution. It features the modular, microkernel-based Cisco IOS XR Software operating system, comprehensive system redundancy, and a full complement of network resiliency schemes. It also offers a unique service- and application-level intelligence that focuses on optimized video delivery and mobile internet. Cisco ASR 9000 Series routers are equipped with the support of a full set of service activation and provisioning systems. These systems are designed to simplify and enhance the operational and deployment aspects of service-delivery networks, including: Residential any-play services, including cable, DSL, Passive Optical Network (PON), and Ethernet to the X (ETTx)

 Business Layer 2 VPN and Layer 3 VPN services Mobile aggregation Video service-delivery networks.

Switching:
Switching is another integral networking technology used in campuses, branch offices, and data centers. Switches are used within buildings in local-area networks (LANs) and across great distances in wide-area networks (WANs). Our switching products offer many forms of connectivity to end users, workstations, IP phones, access points, and servers, and also function as aggregators on LANs and WANs. Our switching systems employ several widely used technologies, including Ethernet, Power over Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Packet over Synchronous Optical Network, and Multiprotocol Label Switching. Many of our switches are designed to support an integrated set of advanced services, allowing organizations to be more efficient by using one switch for multiple networking functions rather than multiple switches to accomplish the same functions. Cisco offers a comprehensive family of Ethernet switching solutions from fixed-configuration to cover a range of deployments in small and mediumsized businesses, to modular switches for enterprises and service providers. Our fixed-configuration switches are designed to provide a foundation for converged data, voice, and video services. They range from small,

standalone switches to stackable models that function as a single, scalable switching unit. Modular switches offer flexibility for enterprises, which due to large-scale network demands often need to deploy numerous, concurrent intelligent networking services without degrading overall performance. Key products within our switching category are the Cisco Catalyst 2960, 3560, 3750, 4500, 4900, and 6500 Series; the Nexus 1000V, 3000, 4000, 5000 and 7000 Series switches; and Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders. During fiscal 2011, we continued to enhance our fixed configuration and modular switches to deliver key network services that are designed to work with Cisco routing, security, and wireless products to enable video collaboration, enterprise-wide energy management, and policy-based security. In fiscal 2011, we also continued to expand on the Cisco Catalyst 4500 processor module by adding a new supervisor engine and features such as Universal Power over Ethernet to power new applications such as thin clients. This supervisor engine is designed to achieve borderless network access and price-performance aggregation deployments providing increased fiber density along with hardware capabilities to support aggregation functionalities. In addition, we introduced capabilities in the Nexus 7000 for scale and convergence such as FabricPath and Director-class FCoE.

Additionally, we completely refreshed our flagship Catalyst 6500 platform, tripling the performance, quadrupling the scalability, and adding new services to the platform.

Types of Switches:
1. Campus LAN Core and Distribution Switches: Scale network performance and reliability with industryleading network services, integrated service modules, and validated design guides. 2. Campus LAN Access Switches: Adapt your network to meet evolving business requirements and optimize new application deployments with Cisco access switches. 3. Campus LAN Compact Switches: Securely and easily deploy services anywhere. These fanless, sleek, compact switches are ideal for spaces with limited wiring and cabling infrastructure, such as kiosks, conference rooms, and call centers. 4. Data Center Switches: Build a data center network based on switches that promote Infrastructure scalability, operational continuity, and transport flexibility. 5. Service Provider Aggregation Switches: Cisco Carrier Ethernet switches provide the aggregation and multiplexing layer between access and edge layers. 6. Service Provider Ethernet Access Switches: Implement class-leading switches featuring application intelligence,

unified services, nonstop communications, virtualization, integrated security, and simplified manageability.

Wireless:
The Cisco Unified Wireless Network is designed to unify high-performance 802.11n wireless access across campus, branch, remote, and outdoor environments. This wireless system strives to maximize flexibility and reliability with its access point, controller, antenna, and integrated management products. Simplified management and mobile device troubleshooting are features of the platform designed to reduce operational cost. This platform delivers, through an open application programming interface (API), businessrelevant mobility data, voice, video, and context-aware applications to partners and end-user customers. A current key product line within Ciscos wireless technology category is the Cisco Aironet product family.

Wireless Benefits: Enterprise-Class Wireless LAN Technology To handle new bandwidth requirements, networks will be designed and built with the performance to handle interactive multimedia for many simultaneous users. The

Cisco Unified Wireless Network provides the highest performance and most scalable platform for business communications today and in the future. Greater Speed, Throughput, and Interference Detection The 802.11n standard provides the bandwidth and reliability to support interactive multimedia applications. Cisco also has true enterprise-class RF technology designed to maximize 802.11n standard performance and deliver many other benefits. In competitive tests, Cisco access points delivered Wi-Fi up to 169 percent faster in the 2.4-GHz spectrum and 64 percent in the 5-GHz spectrum. ClientLink increased average throughput by 65 percent and average channel capacity by 27 percent for 802.11a and 802.11g clients, according to Miercom. CleanAir technology yielded 100 percent accuracy in identifying interference sources, compared with 25 percent accuracy from the nearest competitor, Miercom testing shows. Lower Cost of Ownership Bases on estimates in a Farpoint study CleanAir technology lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) by 58 percent over a handheld wireless analyzer.

Service:
In addition to product offerings, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support services and advanced services. Technical support services help ensure that the products operate efficiently, remain available, and benefit from the most up-to-date system software. These services help customers protect their network investments and minimize downtime for systems running mission-critical applications. Advanced services are services that are part of a comprehensive program that is designed to provide responsive, preventive, and consultative support of technologies for specific networking needs. The advanced services program supports networking devices, applications, solutions, and complete infrastructures. Ciscos service and support strategy seeks to capitalize on increased globalization, and we believe this strategy, along with our architectural approach, has the potential to further differentiate us from competitors.

Collaboration:
Ciscos Collaboration portfolio integrates voice, video, data and mobile applications on fixed and mobile networks across a wide range of devices and endpointsfrom mobile phones and tablets to desktops, Macs and laptops to desktop virtualization clients. Specific solutions include IP phones, mobile applications, customer care, web conferencing, messaging, enterprise social software and Cisco TelePresence Systems. These solutions are available as software and web-based collaborative offerings, standalone devices, integrated components in Cisco routers and switches, and as hosted services in the cloud. Ciscos strategy is to offer an open, interoperable architecture that enables customers to deliver a consistent collaboration experience regardless of device, content, location, or interaction style. These capabilities are critical capabilities in todays era, which requires a collaborative workspace that is mobile, social, visual and virtual. During fiscal 2011, Cisco introduced several new Collaboration solutions including: Cisco Quad, an enterprise social software platform; Cisco Social Miner, a social media solution for proactive customer care; Cisco TelePresence EX90 and MX200 systems designed

to easily extend TelePresence to more desktops, offices and meeting spaces; Cisco Jabber, an enterprise application for presence, instant messaging, web conferencing, desktop sharing, voice and video on mobile devices, laptops and applications; Cisco WebEx for web-based collaboration with presentations, applications, documents, integrated audio and high quality video on tablets and desktops; and new desktop virtualization endpoints for thin client Collaboration applications.

IP Phones:
The implementation of an IP telephone system in a business requires the use of a very specific type of phone: the IP Telephones. IP Phones are sometimes called VoIP telephones, SIP/IAX phones or softphones. These are all the exact same thing and are based on the principle of transmission of voice over the internet, or what is better known as VoIP (or voice over internet protocol) technology.

Cisco IP Phone 7961G and the 7941G Overview:

The Cisco IP Phone 7961G and the 7941G are fullfeature telephones that provide voice communication over an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The Cisco IP Phone functions much like a digital business telephone, allowing you to place and receive phone calls and to access features such as mute, hold, transfer, speed dial, call forward, and more. In addition, because the phone is connected to your data network, it offers enhanced productivity features.

Cisco Unified IP Phone 7911G:

The Cisco Unified IP Phone 7911G fills the communication needs of cubicle, retail, classroom, or manufacturing workers or anyone who conducts low to moderate telephone traffic. Four dynamic soft keys guide users through core business features and functions, while a pixel-based display combines intuitive features, calling information, and Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) services into a rich user experience.

Social Collaboration:

Social collaboration refers to processes that help multiple people interact, share information to achieve any common goal. Such processes find their 'natural' environment on the internet, where collaboration and social dissemination of information are made easier by current innovations. Sharing concepts on a digital collaboration environment often facilitates a "brainstorming" process, where new concepts may emerge due to the contributions of individuals, professional or otherwise. A crucial concept behind social collaboration is that 'ideas are everywhere.' Individuals are able to share their ideas, as it is not limited to professionals, but rather the general public who wishes to become involved. Social collaboration is related to social networking, with the distinction that social collaboration is more group-centric than individual-centric. Social networking services generally focus on individuals sharing messages in a more-or-less undirected way and receiving messages from many sources into a single personalized activity feed. Social collaboration services, on the other hand, focus on the identification of groups and collaboration spaces in which messages are explicitly directed at the group and the group activity feed is seen the same way by everyone. Social collaboration may refer to time-bound collaborations with an explicit goal to be completed or

perpetual collaborations in which the goal is knowledge sharing. Social collaboration is similar to crowdsourcing as it involves individuals working together toward a common goal. Andrea Grover, curator of the 2006 crowdsourcing art show, Phantom Captain: Art and Crowdsourcing, explained in an interview that collaboration among individuals is an appealing experience, because participation is "a low investment, with the possibility of a high return." Social collaboration appeals to young entrepreneurs because of this notion. The best example of Social collaboration in Cisco is WebEx Social Enterprise Social Networking.

Connect to People and Knowledge

WebEx Social Enterprise Social Networking is used to accelerate decision-making, problem resolution, and innovation by quickly finding and engaging the right people and resources. Search for people, experts, communities, and content. Crowd-source answers to specific questions using WebEx Social Expert Q&A. Use the social graph to better understand connections between people and information.

1. Form Ad Hoc Communities for Group Collaboration With WebEx Social Enterprise Social Networking you can instantly form virtual communities and invite members to join. You can also use policy settings to create hidden, restricted, or open communities. Customize your community dashboard by adding a community profile, business applications, posts, and discussion forums. 2. Share Your Profile and Expertise with Others Display contact information such as name, title, presence, phone numbers, email address, reporting structure, and other attributes synchronized with a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)-compliant directory. Share your expertise, activities, interests, communities, posts, and followers with others. 3. Personalize Your User Experience Customize page views and add approved applications and tools, such as visual voicemail, RSS, OpenSocial gadgets, and other Java Portlet Specification 1.0 (JSR168) and Java Portlet Specification v2.0 (JSR286) portlets. Use the Watch List to monitor important activities, such as posts shared with you or comments to your posts. Get personalized suggestions for people to follow, communities to join, and posts to read.

Mobile Collaboration:

Mobile collaboration is a technology-based process of communicating utilizing electronic assets and accompanying software designed for use in remote locations. Newest generation hand-held electronic devices feature video, audio, and telestration (on-screen drawing) capabilities broadcast over secure networks, enabling multi-party conferencing in real time (although real time communication is not a strict requirement of mobile collaboration and may not be applicable or practical in many collaboration scenarios) Differing from traditional video conferencing, mobile collaboration utilizes wireless, cellular and broadband technologies enabling effective collaboration independent of location. Where traditional video conferencing has been limited to boardrooms, offices, and lecture theatres, recent technological advancements have extended the capabilities of video conferencing for use with discreet, hand-held mobile devices, permitting true mobile collaborative possibilities.

Cisco Mobile Web:

Being on the move is a reality of business life today. But dont let that worry you about staying connected with Cisco Information. Just log on to Cisco Mobile Web and get instant access to the latest product offerings, support information, contact numbers or news. Features Cisco mobile gives you instant access to a whole lot of information just at the click of a button. Important & critical data like pricing information, global contact numbers, or earnings releases can now be accessed through your mobile phone. Cisco mobile even lets you review network security alerts, new product details, and regional event listings etc. key resources for our region, including Cisco India overview, executive profiles and press releases. The following platforms are known to support Cisco Mobile Web: Palm OS (e.g., Treo 650, 700 p/w ) Window s Mobile (e.g., Motorola Q)

 Symbian S60 (e.g., Nokia) Blackberry OS (e.g., 7200 series) Mobile Collaboration Without Compromise Cisco WebEx Social native mobile applications extend core social collaboration capabilities to mobile devices. Find experts and information, participate in communities, and stay involved in team discussions while on the move. With WebEx Social mobile applications you can:

Create and share posts with videos, images, and links Click to IM, call, email, or start a web conference Post your status and share news with followers Stay up to date through the Watch List and Activity Stream

Requirements

WebEx Social 2.5.2 for iPhone and iPad works with Apple iOS 4.3, 5.0, 5.1 and most iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad devices WebEx Social for Cisco Cius works with Android 2.2 and is currently supported only on Cisco Cius devices

Download WebEx Social customers application free of charge. can download the mobile

Download for iPhone, iPad, or iPod from the iTunes Store Download for Cisco Cius from AppHQ

TelePresence:
Use the Power of In-Person Collaboration: Cisco TelePresence offers the easiest, most dynamic way for dispersed teams to get together. It's where talent and technology meet. Not only can you bring experts together to solve problems on the fly, but you can also use the power of TelePresence to unify your supply chain, provide highly engaged customer service, train remote teams, and more. Think beyond the boardroom. Transform your business processes with Cisco TelePresence. Cisco TelePresence helps you: Make the Best Use of Employee Time Frequent video participants report saving at least two hours weekly, with one-third reporting at least one day saved per week. These participants report that telepresence solutions help them save money, improve work-life balance, increase their competitive advantage, and bring people closer together.

Speed Decision Making Accelerate business-critical decision making, shorten sales cycles, reduce time to market, and create new forums for collaboration. Cut Travel Costs Many customers reduce their business travel by 30 percent or more when implementing TelePresence. In fact, the cost of two international business trips will pay for a video conferencing system. Trygvesta, a large Nordic insurance company with 2 million customers, reduced travel from 180 to 130 trips per month, saving at least $120,000. Consider the Opportunity Costs The true cost of travel is not just a plane ticket and hotel. Time on the road could be spent being more productive, bringing new products to market, reducing repair time, or meeting with more clients. Use the Business Advantage Calculator to see how video can benefit your business in particular. Transform Business Processes TelePresence makes it easy for teams to collaborate, innovate, and resolve issues. Now you can bring those benefits to customer service, supply chain management, and training; redefine best practices; and accelerate ROI even more.

Be Greener Here is another way to reduce CO2 emissions: 100 employees using video once a week instead of commuting would save the equivalent of a forest the size of five football fields. Featured Products Of TelePresence: Cisco TelePresence TX9000 Series Cisco TelePresence TX1300 Series Cisco TelePresence MX Series Cisco TelePresence EX Series The Cisco TelePresence SX20 Quick Set

Cisco TelePresence TX9000 Series:

New industrial design for greater immersion. Three very high quality simultaneous video streams and a high definition, fullmotion content sharing stream for unparalleled video and content collaboration. Superior lighting and sound, discreet camera housing, touch-screen interface helps reduce TCO with 20% lower bandwidth requirements than earlier model, faster installation, and easy servicing.

Conclusion:

Finally it can be concluded that Cisco has been making