Sentinel Technologies Achieves Cisco's Highest Partner Achievement Award for Fourth Straight Year

Telepresence and Holography / Holograms - November 2008

Editor’s viewpoint on their differences, likenesses and future...

We all just recently viewed an historic CNN holographic interview on an historic Election Night. CNN stated this type of imaging has never been done before on National TV and I believe that. I haven’t seen anything like it. The live interview caught me by surprise and sure had the “wow” factor attached to it didn’t it? Here’s a link to the actual interview.

CNN Hologram Video

The question now has to be asked. Is it Telepresence?

I’m no expert on the subject but I’m going to throw my hat into the ring, go out on a limb and say yes, I believe it is. Although I know many video conferencing purists are rolling their eyes and grabbing their guns right about now with my statement.

While I do know that Telepresence still hasn’t been universally defined (Houston, we have a problem), here’s how I see it…. Broken down to its simplest form - “tele” (through electronic means) and “presence” (present). This is how I’m justifying my opinion by lumping holography and Telepresence together. Just as Telepresence is surely an offshoot of video conferencing, holographic imaging (like we viewed on CNN) surely has to be considered an offshoot of Telepresence. The interviewer was “telepresent” from Chicago and beamed into the CNN Election Headquarters. She was most assuredly - “telepresent”. There was negligible latency, the imaging was fantastic and both interviewers were rehearsed on what they would say. I’ve just recently read that CNN actually “downgraded” the experience to make it “movie” quality and not as good as it could have been. Maybe they thought us mere mortals would be shocked if they showed their complete hand. I have a feeling it was so big to them, they didn’t want it to get upstaged by the historic election. I’m willing to bet we’ll see the “true” power of this technology in the upcoming weeks and months when they can put the pedal to the medal and show it off without having it sidetracked.

What an amazing time for this technology (all differences and opinions aside). Telepresence Doctors, nurses, teachers, schools and healthcare (healthpresence) will benefit from the recent gains in this state-of-the-art industry whether holograms, Telepresence or holography. Airlines also have to see the threat to a portion of their business travel. Hell, who wants go through security and fly to Miami for a two-hour conference when you can look them in the eye via Telepresence?

Beam me up Scotty! Simply amazing…!

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Your Editor and Administrator - L II
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Downers Grove, IL (PRWEB) August 15, 2007 -- Sentinel Technologies has done it again. For the fouth straight year, the Downers Grove-based technology solutions provider has achieved the highest distinction a partner can obtain within the Cisco channel partner program: Customer Satisfaction Excellence.

"It's always nice to know that hard work pays off," said Dennis Hoelzer, President and CEO of Sentinel. "We expect positive results in every facet of our business; from strategy to implementation. We take great pride in integrating Cisco technologies and providing the kind of top-tier solutions our customers have grown to expect from Sentinel, and to be recognized for our efforts is extremely rewarding."

Cisco's Customer Satisfaction Excellence assessment is based upon the customer satisfaction results captured in the Cisco Partner Access Online tool (www.cisco.com/go/pal). Each quarter, Cisco acknowledges Certified Partners that have the highest customer satisfaction distinction within each geographic region. A star is placed next to those partners that have received this distinction. Customers, Cisco personnel and partners are then able to identify those partners as having achieved outstanding customer satisfaction as part of Cisco's worldwide assessment process.

"Stars are always nice, we love to see stars next to our company name," say Brian Osborne, EVP of Sales & Marketing for Sentinel, "but what this distinction really exemplifies is the essence of our business; consistently meeting the highest level of productivity and customer sastisfaction that not only our customers expect from us, but we expect from ourselves. That said, we're extremely proud and appreciative of the fact that that Cisco continues to acknowledge and reward us for our on-going hard work and dedication to serving our customers."

For more information on Cisco Channel Customer Satisfaction Excellence, please visit: www.cisco.com/go/pal

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