News summary:
- Cisco launches new AI solutions to advance collaboration and
empower employees with equitable and exceptional experiences.
- IT teams benefit from simplicity of deployment, management and
the ability to scale in any workspace.
- Designed to help organizations reimagine work and workspaces,
new innovations include Cisco Spatial Meetings to deliver 3D
meeting experiences that reduce the impact of distance, Ceiling
Microphone Pro to enable truly immersive and integrated audiovisual
experiences, and Cisco AI Assistant features to advance employee
productivity.
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LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct. 23,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at WebexOne, Cisco
(NASDAQ: CSCO) unveiled new AI-fueled solutions to enhance employee
connection and collaboration. The company announced several new
innovations, including Cisco Spatial Meetings, Ceiling Microphone
Pro, new Cisco AI Assistant for Webex capabilities and more.
Today, employees and IT teams want solutions that enable
seamless and intelligent collaboration. From delivering enhanced
meeting quality to enabling increased productivity and streamlined
device management, Cisco's new AI innovations are designed to
transform work and workspaces.
"With AI baked into every part of Cisco's product portfolio,
we're helping organizations futureproof their workspaces with
solutions ready for the next generation of how and where people
work," said Jeetu Patel, Executive
Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Cisco. "We're providing
our customers with intelligent, adaptable, and easy-to-manage
technology that enhances experiences for their employees and
customers."
Delivering Distance Zero Experiences
In this era of distributed work, employees need experiences that
make all meeting attendees feel like they're in the same room, even
if they aren't – a concept Cisco calls Distance Zero. Cisco is
leveraging AI to reimagine smart workplaces and enable equitable
and inclusive meeting experiences for everyone regardless of where
and how they work. New innovations include:
- Cisco Spatial Meetings: Turn any space equipped
with a Cisco Room Bar Pro into a stunning immersive studio and
deliver spatial video to Webex for Apple Vision Pro users – easily
with a simple software upgrade. With any Room Bar Pro device and an
Apple Vision Pro, users can do things like product demos, remote
training, education and more with video that includes remarkable
depth and dimension.
- Cisco Ceiling Microphone Pro: Capture natural
conversation from anywhere in a variety of workspaces. This
industry-first adaptive microphone uses AI to automatically adjusts
to speaker position and changes to room configuration. Compatible
with Cisco cameras and room systems, the Cisco Ceiling Microphone
Pro delivers a fully integrated and immersive meeting experience
that is easy to manage. Microphone set up is now faster than ever,
taking minutes, instead of hours.
Managing Smart Workspaces
With the rise of flexible work, IT responsibilities have
expanded alongside increased employee expectations. To address
this, Cisco is empowering IT and facilities teams to streamline
their work with:
- Workspace Designer: Fully automates the design and
customization of workspaces. It provides a 3D view of audio and
video coverage, and accelerates the time it takes to deploy
video-enabled hybrid workspaces.
- Smart Diagnostics in Control Hub: Enables IT to
dynamically identify and resolve meeting room issues in real
time.
- ThousandEyes integration for the Desk Phone 9800 Series and
Webex Calling: Helps monitor and troubleshoot in real-time,
reducing downtime by tracking where call issues originate.
Advancing Employee Productivity and Engagement
To advance collaboration and increase productivity, the Cisco AI
Assistant will enable users to:
- Automate workflows through integrations with enterprise apps
including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Zendesk, and more.
- Integrate with Glean, enabling mutual customers to enhance
discussions and speed up decision-making with its knowledge graph
and connectors including Outlook, Salesforce and ServiceNow.
- Choose the Large Language Model (LLM) that best fits their
needs with Amazon Bedrock.
- Share summaries and recaps across third-party platforms
including Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Copilot and Slack.
Additional new capabilities to enhance employee engagement
include:
- Vidcast enhancements: New features like highlights,
chapters and transcripts enhance asynchronous video capabilities.
AI-generated Vidcast will soon allow users to upload a PDF or PPT
and automatically generate a script and voice-overs in the language
and tone of their choice. This is a major time-saver and will
enhance the user experience.
- AI-generated Slido polls: Meeting participants can use
AI to generate Slido polls during webinars and large meetings.
About Cisco
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securely connects everything to make anything possible. Our purpose
is to power an inclusive future for all by helping our customers
reimagine their applications, power hybrid work, secure their
enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their
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About Webex by Cisco
Webex is a leading provider of cloud-based collaboration
solutions which includes video meetings, calling, messaging,
events, customer experience solutions like contact center and
purpose-built collaboration devices. At Webex, we start with people
and their experiences first. This focus on delivering inclusive
collaboration experiences fuels our innovation, which leverages AI
and Machine Learning, to remove the barriers of geography,
language, personality, and familiarity with technology. Our
solutions are underpinned with security and privacy by design. We
work with the world's leading business and productivity apps –
delivered through a single application and interface. Learn more at
webex.com.
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