UC and Video – Phones of the Future

What will phones in the future look like? If our experience at Cisco is any guide, there will be more and more phones, and they will look like almost anything. They will all have two things in common: they will all bring people together – and they will do it with voice and video. Always video.

The video may be on a small screen that fits in your pocket, or expands to your pad or laptop, a bigger screen that fits on the desk, or screens that cover the wall bringing people, lifesized, to your meetings from around the world.

At Cisco, we’re using all of these “phones” (although only one or two looks at all like a phone), and they all work together to bring people together, face to face. Some share more than voice and video, adding presence information and contacts and instant click to call or click to chat or click to share desktops

Here’s Rich Gore from Cisco IT, to give a quick look at these different “phones” in use at Cisco today.