AT&T Interconnects Cisco Telepresence Locations

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Irwin Lazar, Vice President & Service Director, Nemertes Research

April 21, 2008

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AT&T announced today a new hosted offering to interconnect telepresence rooms based on Cisco's solution.  I haven't seen much in the way of details around how one schedules, manages, and sets up a multi-enterprise telepresence session yet, so it will be interesting to see how they deliver on the details, but this announcement marks a big step forward for Cisco as it looks for new ways to expand the usefulness of its telepresence offering.

We continue to see a growing interest in telepresence as I noted here.

Still, I wonder how long before we see a HD or telepresence interconnectivity service that support multivendor environments, and even crosses over into the mobile world to support one-way or two-way participation by those with mobile devices on 3G/4G networks.

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Irwin Lazar

Vice President & Service Director, Nemertes Research

Irwin Lazar is the Vice President and Service Director at Nemertes Research, where he manages research operations, develops and manages research projects, conducts and analyzes primary research, and advises numerous enterprise and vendor clients. Irwin is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in areas including VOIP, UC, video conferencing, social computing, collaboration, contact center and customer engagement.

A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and sought-after speaker and author, Irwin is a blogger for No Jitter and frequent author for SearchUnifiedCommunications.com. He is a frequent resource for the business and trade press and is regular speaker at events such as Enterprise Connect and Interop. Irwin's earlier background was in IP network architecture, design and engineering.

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