TIVERITY Achieves Premier Certification from Cisco USA

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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Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) September 29, 2008 -- TIVERITY announced today it has achieved Premier Certification from Cisco®. To earn Premier Certification, TIVERITY had to meet standards for networking competency, service, support and customer satisfaction set forth by Cisco.

"We are tremendously proud of this achievement. This certification is a testament to the dedication of the TIVERITY team and their commitment to expanding our product and service offering capabilities for our customers. We are thrilled to strengthen our partnership with Cisco and look forward to continuing to bring innovative solutions and high quality service to our customers" said Pete Schamberger, Chief Executive Officer of TIVERITY.

"Cisco is committed to providing tools, training and programs to help drive partner growth, differentiation and profitability," said Surinder Brar, senior director of worldwide channels at Cisco. "By achieving Cisco Premier Certification, TIVERITY has made an investment in delivering the integrated and customized technology solutions today's customers demand."     

As a Cisco Premier Certified Partner, TIVERITY demonstrates a range of technical expertise. To achieve Cisco Premier Certification TIVERITY was required to achieve the Cisco Express Foundation Specialization. This specialization includes tests on technical competency in the integration of basic routing and switching, wireless LANs, and security technologies. In addition, TIVERITY was required to integrate a base level of Cisco Lifecycle Services into their offerings and demonstrate measurably high levels of customer satisfaction based on independently audited customer satisfaction surveys.     

The Cisco Resale Channel Program provides partners with the training required to build sales, technical and Cisco Lifecycle Services skills. Cisco resale partner certifications--Gold, Silver, Premier and Select--represent an increasing breadth of skills across key technologies and a partner's ability to deliver integrated networking solutions. Cisco resale partner specializations--Master, Advanced and Express--reflect an increasing depth of sales, technical and service expertise in particular technologies.

About TIVERITY

TIVERITY has distinguished itself in both the federal and commercial business sectors, providing full lifecycle deployment and successful integrations of Cisco Unified Communication and Cisco Unified Contact Center core technologies. TIVERITY specializes in the strategic allocation and utilization of contact center resources and the centralization and consolidation of multi-site, geographically distributed contact center operations. TIVERITY's deployment solutions incorporate the Cisco Unified Communications suite of products as the telecommunications middleware layer of the contact center environment/operation.

TIVERITY delivers robust technical solutions that provide for the continuity of service, while allowing contact centers to realize the efficiencies of modernized operating environments. TIVERITY's proven ability to both design and implement roadmaps for the migration of present day contact center services to tomorrow's best technology practices is directly tied to the infrastructure and implementation of integrated multi-media contact center solutions. TIVERITY is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

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