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To gain competitive advantage, you need to get things done faster and we can help. Moving fast is critical in the disruptive economy. It is no longer just Uber in transportation and Amazon in retail that are disrupting industries. Traditional industries like agriculture and financial services are ch…

The magic that started with Cisco Spark Board continues. The Cisco Spark Room Kit and Cisco Spark Room Kit Plus are the newest additions to the Cisco Spark portfolio, which aims to revolutionize the meeting room. We’ve packed innovations into each of the Room Kit options. All you need to do is to ad…

In order for you to adopt video conferencing pervasively, we know we have to make it as easy to deploy and support as it is to use. On the user-experience front, many of you have told us that we have the best in the industry. On the deployment front, we’ve significantly accelerated our pace. In Marc…

About 18 months ago, members of my engineering team conducted customer site visits and came back with a most interesting challenge. They met a Spanish teacher who needed to teach a physical/virtual class over video, but current technology constrained her ability to move about the classroom. Any teac…

This October will mark the 10th anniversary of the immersive telepresence segment – one that we pioneered with the Cisco TelePresence System 3000 Series. And as if by kismet, on the eve of this tenth year, demand for immersive systems soared as never before. Just last month, we shipped the 1,000th I…

Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about a Wainhouse review that evaluated the ease of use and deployment, and cost efficiency of the Cisco SX10 Quick Set for small group video meetings. I wouldn’t have thought when we introduced the SX10 a few years back that we would be able to do even more to reduce c…

When a product does exactly what it promises and more, it can develop almost a cult following. Think iPhone, 3 Series, red soles. You almost don’t need the company brand to know what I’m talking about. OK, so maybe the Cisco SX10 doesn’t quite stir the same emotions as a sleek BMW or a pair of Chris…

John Chambers has often commented publicly about how Cisco’s innovation engine is on “fire.” Within Cisco’s Collaboration and Endpoint Technology Group (CETG), we certainly feel that way. I just got word that independent industry analyst firm Frost & Sullivan has awarded Cisco its 2015 Market Le…

Sometimes when the essence of something is so eloquently captured, there’s no need to say it any differently. That’s how I felt when I read Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant for Group Video Systems report. In it, we feel Gartner confirms Cisco’s position as an established leader in the group video sys…