TIVERITY Achieves Express Unified Communications Specialization 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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Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 6, 2008 -- TIVERITY (www.TIVERITY.com) announced today that it has achieved the Express Unified Communications Specialization from Cisco Systems®. This specialization recognizes TIVERITY as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy and support Cisco Unified Communications solutions for small and medium-sized businesses.

"Small and medium sized businesses are aggressively adopting unified communications to drive customer services, employee productivity and competitive advantage," said Richard McLeod, director of unified communications for worldwide channels at Cisco. "As a Cisco Express Unified Communications Specialized Partner, TIVERITY has made an investment in developing the capability to deliver integrated, collaborative unified communications solutions to SMB customers."

The Cisco Express Unified Communications Specialization is designed to help partners meet the wide ranging needs of small to medium-sized businesses and autonomous enterprise branch offices. These partners are trained and validated as specialists in building integrated voice, video and data networks based on the industry-leading Cisco Unified Communications portfolio. These products include the Cisco Unified CallManager Express, Cisco Unity Express, Cisco Unified IP Phones and Cisco Internet Services Routers.

The Cisco Resale Channel Program provides partners with the training required to build sales, technical and Cisco Lifecycle Services skills, and then validates their skills through a third-party audit. Cisco resale partner certifications--Select, Premier, Silver and Gold--represent an increasing breadth of skills across key technologies and a partner's ability to deliver integrated networking solutions. Cisco resale partner specializations--SMB, Express, Advanced and Master--reflect an increasing depth of sales, technical and service expertise in particular technologies. Achieving Cisco Express Unified Communications Specialization also provides TIVERITY access to comprehensive sales, technical, and lifecycle services training and support available from Cisco.

About TIVERITY

TIVERITY (www.TIVERITY.com) 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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