video conferencing

We are on a mission to reduce complexity. You expect your workplace tools to be as easy to use as the products you like to use at home. When there are too many buttons to push or you can’t navigate controls, you give up. Yet, when you walk into most rooms used for video conferencing, the screens are…

Traditionally, the video conferencing market has been very firmly divided into premises-based products and cloud-based products. Premises-based products still dominate, though there is significant growth in cloud-based solutions. With premises products, IT departments deploy servers that they own an…

In 2017, our collaboration team focused on the user experience more than ever. It’s about more than how people interact with our technology on a day-to-day basis: It’s also about the lifetime experience of buying and using our products. The most meaningful awards are just as much about the audience,…

At work, we accomplish tasks through the people we work with. We collaborate. Communication is the key to collaborating with co-workers, customers, and stakeholders. At Cisco, we strive to make communication simple as possible. We offer ways to have meaningful, face-to-face interactions with everyon…

Winter and ski season is approaching in Norway, and I look forward to going fast again. Going fast is a passion I share with CEOs and CIOs who are under pressure to get to market with better solutions, faster. We introduced Cisco Spark Board earlier this year to help teams rapidly turn creative idea…

Hey Spark, let’s get started. We’re all familiar with Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant—virtual assistants that help you save time and get things done at home like check the weather, turn on your TV, set a reminder, or summon your car from the garage. These products are great in your personal life,…

How many people did you work with on your last project? A study by CEB puts the typical number of individuals we collaborate with at 10. For us, a project to implement a single new capability on a Cisco video system can involve upwards of 35 individuals. Putting more experts on complex projects is n…

Imagine you’re a professional hockey coach. You wouldn’t give your players a mix of football, cricket, and badminton equipment and send them out on the ice. You’d make sure your team had the best gear available so the players can focus on scoring points, not figuring out how to use a cricket bat to…

If you read my blog posts, you know there’s one thing that is very important to me: meetings. It’s how business moves forward. Meetings are where we get stuff done and where we solve problems. That’s why we are continuing to focus on building tools that enable meetings to be as seamless and simple a…