{"id":3282,"date":"2008-06-27T08:38:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T08:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2008-06-27T08:38:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T08:38:18","slug":"cisco_teleprese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3282","title":{"rendered":"Cisco TelePresence Coming to a Living Room Near You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/networking\/208801088\">Jennifer Hagendorf<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>co Systems (NSDQ:CSCO) is set to deliver its TelePresence high-definition videoconferencing technology to the home market within the next 12 months, said the company&#8217;s top executive this week.<br \/>\nThe technology will be available via the channel, including via retailers the likes of Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) and Wal-Mart and service providers such as AT&#038;T (NYSE:T), said Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers at the Cisco Live conference in Orlando, Fla.<br \/>\n&#8220;It will probably evolve. At first we&#8217;ll do it &#8230; where we&#8217;re very careful on how the channel sells TelePresence and very careful that the rooms are set up right and the cameras are set up right,&#8221; Chambers said. &#8220;Having said that, I think that you will see a combination of distribution points.&#8221;<br \/>\nChambers expects pricing of Cisco&#8217;s home-use TelePresence units to come in below $10,000 depending on what functionality the user wants.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Promising, particularly as the air travel experience continues to deteriorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/networking\/208801088\">Jennifer Hagendorf<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>co Systems (NSDQ:CSCO) is set to deliver its TelePresence high-definition videoconferencing technology to the home market within the next 12 months, said the company&#8217;s top executive this week.<br \/>\nThe technology will be available via the channel, including via retailers the likes of Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) and Wal-Mart and service providers such as AT&#038;T (NYSE:T), said Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers at the Cisco Live conference in Orlando, Fla.<br \/>\n&#8220;It will probably evolve. At first we&#8217;ll do it &#8230; where we&#8217;re very careful on how the channel sells TelePresence and very careful that the rooms are set up right and the cameras are set up right,&#8221; Chambers said. &#8220;Having said that, I think that you will see a combination of distribution points.&#8221;<br \/>\nChambers expects pricing of Cisco&#8217;s home-use TelePresence units to come in below $10,000 depending on what functionality the user wants.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Promising, particularly as the air travel experience continues to deteriorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21,11,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}