Comments on: Cisco’s Video Revolution: We The Media. $CSCO $ADBE

By: The Rise and Fall of the Cisco Empire | B2B::Forum

The Rise and Fall of the Cisco Empire | B2B::Forum — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:53:27 +0000

[...] Cisco launched its Telepresence line in 2006. Despite being priced at $300,000 during the midst of a recession, Telepresence was Cisco’s fasting growing product in 2008 according to Fast Company. Cisco was also running its own internal YouTube-like video sharing site for employees. Video was so central to the Cisco of 2008, there was even speculation that Cisco would buy Adobe. [...]

By: The Rise and Fall of the Cisco Empire | Scripting4U Blog

The Rise and Fall of the Cisco Empire | Scripting4U Blog — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:58:19 +0000

[...] Cisco launched its Telepresence line in 2006. Despite being priced at $300,000 during the midst of a recession, Telepresence was Cisco's fasting growing product in 2008 according to Fast Company. Cisco was also running its own internal YouTube-like video sharing site for employees. Video was so central to the Cisco of 2008, there was even speculation that Cisco would buy Adobe. [...]

By: The Rise and Fall of the Cisco Empire

The Rise and Fall of the Cisco Empire — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:36:01 +0000

[...] Cisco launched its Telepresence line in 2006. Despite being Priced at $300,000 during the midst of a recession, Telepresence was Cisco's fasting growing product in 2008 according to Fast Company. Cisco was also running its own internal YouTube-like video sharing site for employees. Video was so central to the Cisco of 2008 that there was even speculation that Cisco would buy Adobe. [...]

By: A Tale of Two Expectations: On TelePresence vs Skype

A Tale of Two Expectations: On TelePresence vs Skype — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:47:50 +0000

[...] Expectations are set high with Cisco Telepresence. You have to use one of their offices, so its a managed environment. Quality of service is a given. As chair of SAP’s Sustainability Stakeholder Panel I was recently invited to Cisco’s offices in London to attend a meeting with the Panel, and SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann-Snabe. You can imagine my disappointment when the system just didn’t work. Even worse – and how is this for unfortunate? – one of the panel members flew from their location to SAP’s Philadelphia office for the TelePresence meeting. Ah yes – sustainability and telepresence… Suffice to say the outcome was pretty embarrassing. Maybe Tim can make something funny out of it. TelePresence is utterly amazing- it really is like being in the room with the other folks on the call- when it works properly. And yes this was nothing but a configuraton issue. I am on the record as being bullish about Cisco’s Video Revolution. [...]

By: James Governor's Monkchips » A Tale of Two Expectations: On TelePresence vs Skype

Tue, 11 May 2010 15:03:53 +0000

[...] Expectations are set high with Cisco Telepresence. You have to use one of their offices, so its a managed environment. Quality of service is a given. As chair of SAP’s Sustainability Stakeholder Panel I was recently invited to Cisco’s offices in London to attend a meeting with the Panel, and SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann-Snabe. You can imagine my disappointment when the system just didn’t work. Even worse – and how is this for unfortunate? – one of the panel members flew from their location to SAP’s Philadelphia office for the TelePresence meeting. Ah yes – sustainability and telepresence… Suffice to say the outcome was pretty embarrassing. Maybe Tim can make something funny out of it. TelePresence is utterly amazing- it really is like being in the room with the other folks on the call- when it works properly. And yes this was nothing but a configuraton issue/ I am on the record as being bullish about Cisco’s Video Revolution. [...]

By: URBEINGRECORDED » Cisco moving into consumer digital media & hardware

URBEINGRECORDED » Cisco moving into consumer digital media & hardware — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:28:31 +0000

[...] Redmonk’s James Governor opined that Cisco might make a play for Adobe Systems, bells went off in my head. It just made [...]

By: jgovernor

jgovernor — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:47:15 +0000

Hey Dennis. Clearly Cisco is ALL OVER telepresence. But it has major ambitions for Media – the more video is created and digitised the more network pipes you need. Video feeds demand for Cisco’s core networking franchise products. Just look at the impact of the BBC iPlayer and the ITV version on UK bandwidth. For Cisco video equipment and services could practically be a loss leader and it would still feed the bottom line But clearly its going to be a multibillion dollar business in its own right. I think the recession can only push telepresence and video forward.

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:56:59 +0000

Sure that CSCO is not more about jumping on the telepresence religious bandwagon that seems to be reaching many companies? BTW – at LeWeb, you couldn’t move without having a video camera shoved in your face. I blame @193media.