Because globalization increases the need for communication among colleagues and partners, the likelihood increases that organizational discussions will encompass not just multiple people but also multiple locations.

Collaboration supports today's global, real-time organizations by promoting effective communication allowing people to meet at any time from anywhere. By integrating voice, video, and Web conferencing into everyday communications, organizations can expand their market reach, improve operational effectiveness, and speed decision making. The ability for all meeting participants to hear and contribute to the discussion, view other participants and read their body language, and share documents all contributes to effective remote meetings, whether the meeting is a sales demonstration, training application, project team meeting, or customer support interaction.

Organizational Benefits

Nexus provides a variety of different collaboration choices for organizations. They include:

TelePresence

To improve this situation, Cisco has developed an innovative solution that creates an "in-person" meeting experience over the converged network. Cisco TelePresence delivers real-time, face-to-face interactions between people and places in their work and personal lives using advanced visual, audio, and collaboration technologies. These technologies transmit life-size, high-definition images and spatial discrete audio. Now it's easier than ever to discern facial expressions for those crucial organizational discussions and negotiations across the "virtual table."

WebEx

Meet online whenever you want with on-demand web conferencing. On-demand web conferencing has become the preferred communication medium for business today. By combining the ease of audio conferencing with the interactivity of video conferencing directly from your desktop, you create a truly personalized interactive experience. You can schedule meetings in advance or start an instant meeting with the click of your mouse. Send invitations via email or IM--you can even start the meeting from within our secure instant messenger.

MeetingPlace

The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace solution is deployed on-network and integrated with an organization's private voice and data networks to help companies realize the cost-savings potential of converged IP networks. On-network deployment facilitates cost savings because organizations can use their IP network infrastructures to reduce conferencing-related transport costs. Because conferencing can account for up to 50 percent or more of a company's overall voice traffic, keeping traffic on internal networks results in significant cost savings. On-network deployment also results in a secure meeting environment.

How Can Nexus Assist Your Organization?

Nexus works with your organization to translate your requirements into a comprehensive detailed design. A Professional Services designated Project Manager will serve as a single point-of-contact, working to achieve the fastest possible implementation, with minimal disruption of the existing network, and meeting quality and budget requirements.

Nexus then works with your organization making sure that you are comfortable with the technology, while maintaining the system to its maximum performance, capacity, availability, reliability, and security.

Nexus is Cisco’s most experienced partner for deploying TelePresence. Chosen as one of four “Alpha” partners worldwide to implement this new technology, Nexus has installed more than half of the TelePresence units at Cisco. Significant projects for Nexus include:

• All high profile installations for Cisco, including the Executive Briefing Center and the Executive Offices in the San Jose corporate campus.
• Deployed the first Early Field Trial (EFT) customer sites in the western US.
• Installations at select regional offices for Cisco throughout the western US and Canada.
• Over 100 Cisco TelePresence installations globally.

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Resources

Below are helpful documents you can view regarding Collaboration:

• Cisco TelePresence Trends: Future Benefits Outlook (PDF)
• Best Practices in Web Conferencing Security (PDF)
• Accelerating Business with Online Collaboration (PDF)