Cisco Networkers Solutions Forum Toronto - May 19, 2011

The 2011 Cisco Networkers Solutions Forum is a showcase for Cisco's best and latest in video collaboration and borderless networks. Its also where you’ll get a glimpse of exciting advancements in next generation of data center, cloud computing and service provider solutions. Networkers features education about IT Industry trends and offers training in the latest technologies. There is a lot to see, including live demonstrations of Cisco’s products and solutions and networkers is the place to meet networking professionals like you. We are excited about the lineup of keynote speakers. Make sure you check out TRC Networks booth and see what we can do for your company, you will not want to miss this one.

Keynote Speakers:


Dr. Guido Jouret
VP/GM and CTO of Cisco's Emerging Technologies Group.

Join us as Guido talks about "The Next Five Years." This provocative session will discuss the current and future trends that affect the proliferation and use of the latest technologies in business, such as mobility, virtualization, energy and video. Highlights will include Cisco's unique innovation model, the processes and technologies derived from that model, as well as use cases of these emerging technologies in business. Guido will also ‘connect-the-dots' of these various technologies and present more comprehensive solutions that can further drive and accelerate business transformation.



Mike Holmes
Canada's Most Trusted Contractor, Crusader to Make it Right™

Join us as the dynamic host and creator of Holmes on Homes™ has an open and frank discussion about how technology can improve building standards across the globe. All the while incorporating the latest green technologies and building a truly sustainable future. Highlights will include Mike's experiences filming his #1 show on HGTV Canada and how he's parlayed that into being an advocate for craftsmanship and skilled trades everywhere.


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Will Video Calls Finally Take Off?

Ever wonder why video calls haven’t taken off? It might.

That’s the considered opinion of FOX News’s John R. Quain, who pronounces himself “enamored with video calling - or videoconferencing, as the business folks know it - for nearly two decades.”

With everything so cumbersome and expensive twenty years ago he says, “okay, I can understand why it wasn’t happening then,” but today, with smartphones and broadband Internet, services like Skype thrive, so could this be video’s time to shine?

Asus has just upgraded its standalone Skype videophone, Quain says, noting that, “the Asus Videophone Touch AiGuru SV1T, which looks like a little television, has a 7-inch touchscreen, a built-in microphone and speaker, and connects to the Internet via Wi-Fi or an Ethernet cable. Expected to cost about $300, it makes video calls nearly as easy as making a phone call.”

Much of the optimism is, in fact, depending on Skype's vast user base, Quain says. “Samsung's UN46C7000, for example, is a $2,000 46-inch LCD set that's ready for Skype out of the box. It works only with a special $240 camera, however, the FreeTalk Skype Camera. Panasonic has also Skype-enabled several of its latest HDTVs, including the 50-inch Panasonic TCP50VT25, a $2,360 plasma set. But it too needs a special $170 video camera to make a video call.”

How do these work? In some preliminary tests, with similar television systems, “I found the effect interesting -- but also chilling,” Quain admits. “The picture can be a bit blurry at times, but the idea of seeing distant relatives sitting in their dens in another country on a big-screen TV was appealing.

On the other hand, it was also unnerving to realize that people who were gazing into my living room could see how messy my home is -- and what toys my daughter was playing with (shouldn't she be doing her homework?).”

This, of course, is precisely the reason there hasn’t really been much of a concerted cry for video: We usually don’t want the other person to see us, what we’re wearing -- or not wearing.

Still, Cisco “isn't worried about the privacy aspect,” Quain says: “The company is poised to introduce its own video-calling device for the home this week, according to The Wall Street Journal.”

Video: Cisco Advanced Video Monitoring System (AVMS) Software

See how the Cisco Advanced Video Monitoring System (AVMS) software helps monitor and control network surveillance cameras to protect small businesses.

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NY Times: Video Calling Is Going Mainstream, As Long As Price Stays Down

By Ed Silverstein, TMCnet Web Editor

Video calling is slowly moving from a science fiction fantasy to a daily reality for a lot of Internet users, The New York Times is reporting.

According to a new survey, the VoIP company, Rebtel, commissioned from Harris Interactive (News - Alert), shows that 14 percent of U.S. adults currently make video calls and 34 percent of them are willing to pay a fee for them, the Times reports.

With technologies like Skype (News - Alert) and its built-in video calling feature, as well as Apple's FaceTime and various other mobile video calling solutions, the market for video calling is becoming mainstream as the tools for making these calls are becoming more easily available, according to the Times.

The survey shows about a third of those Internet users who are making video calls are also willing to pay for it. According to the Rebtel (News - Alert) survey, the price for this feature can't be too high, the Times reports. Most users aren't willing to spend more than $10 per month for this, and 44 percent of those respondents who are willing to pay don't want to pay more than $5, the Times reports on the survey results.

Rebtel's CEO Andreas Bernstrom said, "This opens up a new, non-ad based revenue model for providers like Skype who are looking to monetize on their video services," said Rebtel’s CEO Andreas Bernstrom in the Times’ report.

In a related matter, TMCnet recently reported that mobile video chatting and conferencing has been a hot topic in the telecommunications space over the last few years. While the equipment is available, mobile networks do not have the bandwidth capacity to allow these products and services to be adopted on a widespread basis. With the recent advances in communications technology, consumers demand a higher level of video quality than mobile networks are currently capable of delivering, TMCnet reported.

For this reason, wired networks will continue to be a staple in the enterprise space, according to Rico Vitale, senior systems engineer at Enablence, a supplier of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) equipment and optical components.

Use IP Video Surveillance to Gain a Strategic Advantage

Does your business use video surveillance? If not, why not?

It's funny; when we introduce a product we think we know what it does and how it will be used. By that I mean we spent time, money and thought looking at what people do at work and how we can make it easier. When we launched IP Video Surveillance we thought "Cool! Now people can have their surveillance cameras on the network, they can look at their business from anywhere and we have a storage device that makes it easy to go back to review tapes if you need to. Wow, we're awesome!" We had barely considered the possible uses.

When we launch a new product we go find customers who are using it and produce videos and written stories to share with other customers. So there I was! (I always like stories that begin this way) talking to people who are using our cameras. Guess what, they thought of new ways to use it. Security was cool, and very important but we had overlooked productivity. One of the first customers I met was Dr Tuuyen Do at Skye Dental. She actually told me she had asked for IP Video Surveillance for Christmas! (I can't make these things up, I'm not that good) While I don't think many of us are going to ask Santa for an IP Video Surveillance solution -- The way she uses it is very creative. Her practice is young and growing. Rather than have an employee who just sits at the desk, she uses the cameras to watch the lobby with screens in each of her treatment centers. She can see when someone comes in and her assistant can step out to greet them. Patients feel attended to and she's saving money to invest in the practice! We didn't really see that coming; but it did give us an idea!

Today we announced the Cisco Advanced Video Monitoring System to track customers walking through the store to check how they react to promotional signage or to identify dead zones where no one visits. During ad campaigns, the video monitoring system can count the number of customers coming through the door and follow their journey. And cameras can be linked to point-of-sale (POS) systems to see how many of the customers make purchases and what they bought. It's like having an extra pair of eyes!

IP video cameras like the Cisco VC220 and Cisco VC240 are for more than just security. See how the shop manager at Larry’s Auto uses IP video to check the progress of a customer's car as well as technicians’ workload, regardless of whether she’s in the office or working from home.

Posted by Dawn Allison Brister on Sep 22, 2010 12:22:32 PM

Avaya Aims to Bring Workplace Video to the Tipping Point

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, IP Communications Magazines

Leveraging video for work applications is far from widespread, and that seems to be because the barriers of entry for making video work easily as needed – and where desired – are still a bit high for many organizations and employees to overcome. So says Lawrence Byrd, director of unified communications architecture at Avaya (News - Alert).

To help propel video in the workplace into the mainstream, Avaya has come out with SIP support for its Windows-based client software; and a range of new video products, including the Avaya 1000 family of dedicated video solutions for conference rooms and small groups, and an exciting new desktop solution. All of the above fall under Avaya’s existing SIP-based Aura architecture.

Initiating video communications, and managing various communications in a simple and intuitive way, can be a challenge, Byrd says, adding that today most workers rely on different tools for IM, video, social networking and other applications.

“It’s too hard to use the whole mish mash of tools we use today so … some people don’t use them,” he says. “That’s not how collaboration should work. I should just wave my arms, and it should work.”

To make that happen Avaya has introduced a new drag-and-drop interface that merges Outlook, Facebook (News - Alert), IM, presence, video and other collaboration tools. Also new from Avaya is an Android-based desktop video device with an 11.6-inch screen; Harman Kardon speakers; a touch-screen interface; an HP camera; and VoIP, video and other collaborative capabilities. It’s portable and supports Wi-Fi, so easily can be transported from a user’s desk to a conference room or another office, for example, Byrd says.

The device is part of what the company calls the Avaya User Experience, which Byrd says Avaya is promoting as a new way to think about video. It’s targeted at “power collaborators” within organizations, such as executives, team leaders, deal leaders, lawyers and any other knowledge workers who regularly interact with a variety of people. Byrd would not disclose the price of the device, but says it’s more than a tablet and less than a typical personal video desktop product.

This is just the first of what will be a variety of video products that will deliver the Avaya User Experience in the workplace. Over time Avaya expects third-party devices to emerge to support the Avaya User Experience as well, says Byrd, adding that 4G cellular networks will increase bandwidth to better support rich media applications like mobile video.

Check out Rich Tehrani's (News - Alert) Communications and Technology Blog for more on Avaya's tablet announcement

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire ExtendMedia

SAN JOSE, CA, Aug 26, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Cisco /quotes/comstock/15*!csco/quotes/nls/csco (CSCO 21.34, +0.13, +0.61%) today announced its intent to acquire privately-held ExtendMedia, a leading provider of software-based Content Management Systems (CMS) that manage the entire lifecycle of video content through monetization for pay media and ad-supported business models. Based in Newton, Mass., with the majority of its employee base in Toronto, Canada, ExtendMedia will enable Cisco to help service providers deliver multi-screen offerings as the market transitions to IP video.

"As the video market transitions and consumers expect multi-screen engagement, service providers are enhancing their infrastructure to manage and deliver video to any device while providing a rich user experience," said Enrique Rodriguez, senior vice president and general manager, Cisco's Service Provider Video Technology Group. "ExtendMedia will strengthen Cisco's position in the delivery of IP video services by enabling service providers to provide a more interactive and personal experience and to optimize quality for consumer viewing devices."

ExtendMedia brings to Cisco a strong software team that understands the complexities of delivering multi-screen video over IP networks. ExtendMedia's CMS software, which will integrate with Cisco's current IP video offerings, will be a core component of Cisco's next-generation video architecture. Together, Cisco and ExtendMedia will enable service providers to deploy a next-generation, end-to-end video architecture that delivers the best consumer experience with access to any content, over any network, on any device.

Financial terms of the transaction are undisclosed. The acquisition is subject to various standard closing conditions and is expected to be complete in the first half of Cisco's fiscal year 2011. Upon the close of the acquisition, the majority of the ExtendMedia team will be integrated into Cisco's Service Provider Video Technology Group. The ExtendMedia Sales and Professional Services teams will integrate into the Cisco Sales and Advanced Services organizations.

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Cisco says "Go Wireless or Go Home"

Posted by Karen Smyth on Aug 18, 2010 11:10:12 AM

Prior to Cisco, I worked for mostly small businesses. This has given me pretty good insight into how small business decisions are made. As there are so few layers of management, often times the same person that weighs the pros and cons of free soda for employees is also deciding whether to make a major technology purchase. More than anything right now, I’d say that one of the most important decisions a small businessperson can make is whether to “go wireless or go home.”

The benefits of a good business wireless network and solid voice set-up extend beyond the office and can positively influence customer experiences. If you’ve ever been placed on extended hold because the person you were calling had to walk to another location or find someone, you know what I’m talking about. After a short time, that recorded voice over smooth jazz telling me, “my call is important” begins to lose its sincerity. Its hard to say what’s worse for me, listening to a cheesy recording or working through my fear of abandonment issues when the on-hold experience is just silence.

I recently read an article in a marketing publication that said most callers on-hold stay on for just shy of a couple minutes before becoming annoyed and hanging up. About a third of these callers never call back. Ouch! Remember all that money you spent on advertising just to get those calls?

As for me, I’ve been there, done that and wrote the Yelp review. In this era of everything immediate, and dare I say it, short-attention spans, I think we’ve all become programmed to judge a company by its responsiveness. That bar is getting higher and higher just as our threshold for Kenny G. gets lower.

The company that gets my repeat business and a shout-out to 500 of my closest Facebook friends is the one that can answer my question without putting me on hold. It’s the salesperson that picks up his business line from his mobile phone while he’s in the break room with the art director. It’s the dry cleaner that tells me his closing time even though he’s away from the front counter. It’s the jewelry shop owner confirming on his laptop from the showroom floor that the secret admirer who sent me diamond earrings was Clive Owen (OK so this last example is purely hypothetical, but you get what I mean, right?).

In any case, Creative Video Services is a company I am very familiar with. It’s a small business that understands the importance of wireless technologies. From producers, editors to salespeople they have lots of folks on the move. After seeing what they do firsthand, its tough to imagine how they were doing business without wireless. Then again, It’s easy to see that through the help of a Cisco partner and Cisco wireless phones and access points, how they are setting themselves apart and focused on getting things done.

Take a look.

Video: IP Telephony Helps Canada Company Stay Connected

Video: Cisco Quad Demo at Enterprise 2.0 Boston

Watch Cisco Product Manager, Harold Pulhug, demonstrate Cisco Quad at Enterprise 2.0 Boston. During the product tour, Harold shows how this enterprise collaboration platform integrates with Cisco Unified Communications, Microsoft Exchange, and more.

Customer Success Story - The Food Group Using Cisco WebEx

Annual Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast Projects Global IP Traffic to Increase More Than Fourfold by 2014

Video to Surpass Peer-to-Peer as Top Internet Traffic Contributor by End of 2010, Global Online Video Community to Exceed 1 Billion Users by 2014

SAN JOSE, Calif. - June 2, 2010 - Today Cisco announced the results of the annual Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, 2009-2014, which projects that global Internet traffic will increase more than fourfold to 767 exabytes, or more than 3/4 of a Zettabyte, by 2014. This amount is 100 exabytes higher than the projected level in 2013, or an increase the equivalent of 10 times all the traffic traversing Internet Protocol networks in 2008.

The growth in traffic will continue to be dominated by video, exceeding 91 percent of global consumer IP traffic by 2014. Improvements in network bandwidth capacity and Internet speeds, along with the increasing popularity of HDTV and 3DTV are key factors expecting to quadruple IP traffic from 2009 to 2014.

Overview:

• The Cisco VNI Forecast, which focuses on two primary user groups—consumers and businesses—was developed as an annual study to estimate global IP traffic growth and trends. Projections are based on Cisco analysis and modeling of traffic, usage, and device data from independent analyst sources. Cisco validates its forecast, inputs, and methodology with data provided by service providers worldwide.
• To help network users better understand global IP traffic growth drivers and trends, Cisco updated several of its unique resources:
• The VNI Forecast widget provides customized views of the growth of various network traffic types around the globe (revised for this 2009 - 2014 forecast period).
• The VNI PC Pulse application for desktop and laptop computers helps consumers learn more about their individual impact on IP networks and compare their network usage with that of others around the world.

Research Highlights:

Total Global IP Traffic in "Bytes"

• Global IP traffic is expected to increase more than fourfold (4.3 times) from 2009 to 2014, reaching 63.9 exabytes per month in 2014, up from approximately 56 exabytes per month in 2013. This is equivalent to 766.8 exabytes per year - almost three-quarters of a zettabyte, by 2014.
• The nearly 64 exabytes of global IP traffic per month projected for 2014 is equivalent to 16 billion DVDs; 21 trillion MP3's; or 399 quadrillion text messages.

Regional IP Traffic Trends

• By 2014, the highest IP-traffic generating regions will be North America (19.0 exabytes per month), Asia Pacific (17.4 exabytes per month), Western Europe (16.2 exabytes per month) and Japan (4.3 exabytes per month).
• The fastest growing IP-traffic regions for the forecast period (2009-2014) are Latin America (51 percent compound annual growth rate [CAGR], 7.9-fold growth), the Middle East and Africa (45 percent CAGR, 6.5-fold growth), and Central Europe (38 percent CAGR, 5.1-fold growth).

Primary Growth Driver: Video

• By 2014, the sum of all forms of video (TV, VoD, Internet video, and peer-to-peer) will continue to exceed 91 percent of global consumer traffic.
• Global Internet video traffic will surpass global peer-to-peer traffic by the end of 2010. For the first time in the last 10 years, peer-to-peer traffic will not be the largest Internet traffic type.
• The global online video community will include more than 1 billion users by the end of 2010.
• By 2014, it would take more than two years to watch the amount of video that will cross global IP networks every second; to watch all the video crossing the network that year would take 72 million years.

3DTV and HD (Advanced Video)

• Globally, advanced video traffic, including three-dimensional (3-D) and high-definition TV (HDTV), is projected to increase 13 times between 2009 and 2014.
• By 2014, 3-D is expected to account for 4 percent of total Internet video traffic.
• By 2014, 3-D and HD video is forecast to comprise 42 percent of total consumer Internet video traffic.

Global File Sharing

• Global file sharing traffic is projected to reach 11 exabytes per month in 2014, 22 percent CAGR from 2009-2014.
• P2P will grow at a CAGR of 16 percent, while web-based and other file sharing will grow at CAGR of 47 percent from 2009-2014.
• By 2014, global P2P traffic will be 17 percent of global consumer Internet traffic, down from 36 percent in 2009.

Global Business IP Traffic

• Global business IP Traffic is forecast to reach 7.7 exabytes per month in 2014, more than tripling from 2009-2014.
• Business video conferencing is projected grow ten-fold over the forecast period, growing almost three times as fast as overall business IP traffic, at a CAGR of 57 percent from 2009-2014.
• Web-based video conferencing is the fastest growing sub-category, growing 180-fold from 2009-2014 (183 percent CAGR from 2009-2014).

Mobile Broadband

• Global mobile data traffic will increase 39 times from 2009 to 2014.
• By 2014, annual global mobile data traffic will reach 3.5 exabytes per month (or a run rate of more than 42 exabytes annually).

Consumer vs. Business

• Consumer IP traffic is projected to grow faster than business:
• For 2009, consumer IP traffic represented 79 percent of monthly total global IP traffic and business IP traffic was 21 percent of monthly total global IP traffic.
• By 2014, consumer IP traffic (web surfing, instant messaging, user-generated videos, etc.) will represent 87 percent of monthly total global IP traffic; while business IP traffic (email, voice, Internet, HD and web-based video conferencing, etc.) will represent 13 percent of monthly total global IP traffic.

Network Speed Enables IP Traffic Growth: 2000 vs. 2010 Comparison

• In just a decade, the average global residential Internet connection download speed has increased 35 times, which has helped to dramatically increase Internet usage.
• In 2000, the average global residential Internet connection download speed was 127 kilobits per second (Kbps). The current (2010) average global residential Internet connection download speed is 4.4 megabits per second (Mbps.)

Network Download Evolution:

Online Activity	2000 Download Time	2010 Download Time
Download a DVD-quality movie (4 GB)	3 days	2 hours
Download a MP3 audio file (3 MB)	3 minutes	5 seconds
Download an email attachment (1 MB)	1 minute	2 seconds

Cisco VNI Forecast Widget:

Media/Analysts/Bloggers: Use Cisco's interactive VNI Forecast widget to create custom forecast charts and views by region, application and end-user segment. Get the VNI Forecast Widget.

Enhanced Consumer Application:

Cisco VNI PC Pulse Application:
The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) PC Pulse application measures the amount and types of traffic that you generate from your PC (for example, Web browsing, video, e-mail, etc.). The application also provides a new "IP DNA" abstract image that represents your personal usage preferences. You can compare your individual data against aggregate global statistics from other Cisco VNI PC Pulse users around the world to see how you rate.
Get Cisco PC Pulse

Supporting Quote:

• Pankaj Patel, senior vice president and general manager, Service Provider Group, Cisco

"Service providers are faced with evolving bandwidth and scalability requirements as residential, business and mobile consumers continue to demonstrate a healthy appetite for advanced video services across a variety of networks and devices. IP networks must be intelligent and flexible enough to support this tremendous variety of traffic growth. The Cisco VNI Forecast offers a global snapshot of video's significance in our daily lives and signals the need for further network preparations to support the quadrupling of the Internet and the more than 1 billion online video users by 2014."

Supporting Resources:

• Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast Web Site:
  http://www.cisco.com/go/vni
• Watch the full VoD: Top trends behind Cisco's annual VNI Forecast 2009-2014:
  http://tools.cisco.com/cmn/jsp/index.jsp?id=101868&redir=YES&userid=%28none%29
• Blog: Cisco VNI Forecast: Highlights for Video Service Providers:
  http://blogs.cisco.com
• Cisco VNI Forecast and Methodology, 2009 – 2014 White Paper:
  http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/white_paper_c11-481360_ns827_Networking_Solutions_White_Paper.html
• Cisco VNI White Paper on "Hyperconnectivity":
  http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/VNI_Hyperconnectivity_WP.html
• Cisco VNI Forecast FAQs:
  http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/qa_c67-482177_ns827_Networking_Solutions_Q_and_A.html
• Cisco Visual Networking Index Free Applications:
  http://www.ciscovnipulse.com/
• Cisco VNI Data Visualization:
  http://www.ciscovnipulse.com/
• News@Cisco Feature: The Cisco VNI: Benchmark for Broadband Demand:
  http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2010/ts_052410.html?sid=BAC-NewsWire

Polycom Joins Global Communications Leaders to Form Industry UC Interoperability Forum

Joe Sigrist, Polycom senior vice president and general manager for the Video Solutions division, discusses Polycoms status as a founding member of the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum, announced May 19, 2010. Polycom has reinforced our commitment to open standards and interoperability by joining together with Microsoft, HP, Juniper Networks, and Logitech/LifeSize to form the UCIF, a non-profit alliance of worldwide technology leaders who are working together to realize the potential of Unified Communications by increasing efficiency, decreasing implementation costs, and improving the interoperability experience for UC customers. A growing roster of companies have signed up as members of the UCIF, including Acme Packet, Aspect, AudioCodes, Broadcom, BroadSoft, Brocade, ClearOne, Jabra, Plantronics, RADVISION, Siemens Enterprise Communications, and Teliris.

Hands free/eyes free mobile communications from Avaya

A three-minute video that shows how people who use a mobile phone or PDA while on the road can use voice control, elminating the need for dialing or "texting," to call a central number and instantly get access to and manage their calendars, email, and contact information.

Video: Polycom Open Collaboration Network

Polycom is partnering with the leading unified communications platform providers to deliver applications that span different environments. Our strategic Polycom Open Collaboration Network partners include Avaya, BroadSoft, HP, IBM, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, and Siemens. We also have a larger network of ARENA partners who enhance the range and variety of unified communications solutions we offer customers.

What is the difference between Cisco Unity, Unity Connection and Unity Express

ttrentler on Thu, 04/29/2010 - 15:12

Cisco has three voicemail products that will work with CME, the UC500 and Unified Communications Manager.

A friend of mine at Global Knowledge, Joey DeWiele, goes through the differences in this short video.