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Telepresence and Holography / Holograms - November 2008

Editor’s viewpoint on their differences, likenesses and future...

We all just recently viewed an historic CNN holographic interview on an historic Election Night. CNN stated this type of imaging has never been done before on National TV and I believe that. I haven’t seen anything like it. The live interview caught me by surprise and sure had the “wow” factor attached to it didn’t it? Here’s a link to the actual interview.

CNN Hologram Video

The question now has to be asked. Is it Telepresence?

I’m no expert on the subject but I’m going to throw my hat into the ring, go out on a limb and say yes, I believe it is. Although I know many video conferencing purists are rolling their eyes and grabbing their guns right about now with my statement.

While I do know that Telepresence still hasn’t been universally defined (Houston, we have a problem), here’s how I see it…. Broken down to its simplest form - “tele” (through electronic means) and “presence” (present). This is how I’m justifying my opinion by lumping holography and Telepresence together. Just as Telepresence is surely an offshoot of video conferencing, holographic imaging (like we viewed on CNN) surely has to be considered an offshoot of Telepresence. The interviewer was “telepresent” from Chicago and beamed into the CNN Election Headquarters. She was most assuredly - “telepresent”. There was negligible latency, the imaging was fantastic and both interviewers were rehearsed on what they would say. I’ve just recently read that CNN actually “downgraded” the experience to make it “movie” quality and not as good as it could have been. Maybe they thought us mere mortals would be shocked if they showed their complete hand. I have a feeling it was so big to them, they didn’t want it to get upstaged by the historic election. I’m willing to bet we’ll see the “true” power of this technology in the upcoming weeks and months when they can put the pedal to the medal and show it off without having it sidetracked.

What an amazing time for this technology (all differences and opinions aside). Telepresence Doctors, nurses, teachers, schools and healthcare (healthpresence) will benefit from the recent gains in this state-of-the-art industry whether holograms, Telepresence or holography. Airlines also have to see the threat to a portion of their business travel. Hell, who wants go through security and fly to Miami for a two-hour conference when you can look them in the eye via Telepresence?

Beam me up Scotty! Simply amazing…!

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Your Editor and Administrator - L II
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Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) July 31, 2008 -- Corporate Technologies LLC, a Minneapolis MN based information technology company (http://www.gocorptech.com/), today announces that it has achieved the Advanced Unified Communications Specialization from Cisco®. This specialization recognizes Corporate Technologies as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy and support comprehensive Cisco Unified Communications solutions. In addition, Corporate Technologies also achieved the SMB Specialization. The SMB Specialization recognizes Cisco resale channel partners whose primary focus is on the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market with fewer than 250 employees.

"Corporate Technologies is committed to delivering leading edge technology solutions to our customers across the country," said Jim Griffith, CEO of Corporate Technologies LLC. "Cisco's solutions provide a quality product implemented by our engineers and project managers who have achieved Cisco's stringent certification requirements."

The Cisco Advanced Unified Communications Specialization is designed to help Cisco resale channel partners--whether small to medium-sized businesses or enterprise-scale organizations--meet a wide range of customer needs. It allows partners to focus on unified communications market opportunities that require advanced product knowledge and the ability to deploy solutions over multiple sites and geographies. Cisco Advanced Unified Communications Specialized Partners are specialists in building solutions based on the industry-leading Cisco Unified Communications portfolio. These products include Cisco Unified CallManager, Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Unity voice messaging and unified messaging, and Cisco Unity Express, Cisco Unified Contact Center Express, Cisco Unified Videoconferencing and Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express.

"As a Cisco Advanced Unified Communications Specialized Partner, Corporate Technologies investment in the training required to provide integrated, collaborative and adaptive unified communications solutions rank them among the industry's most qualified," said Richard McLeod, director of unified communications for worldwide channels at Cisco.

The Cisco Resale Channel Program provides partners with the training required to build sales, technical and Cisco Lifecycle Services skills, and then validates their skills through a third-party audit. Cisco resale partner certifications--Select, Premier, Silver and Gold--represent an increasing breadth of skills across key technologies and a partner's ability to deliver integrated networking solutions. Cisco resale partner specializations--SMB, Express, Advanced and Master--reflect an increasing depth of sales, technical and service expertise in particular technologies. Achieving Cisco Advanced Unified Communications Specialization also provides Corporate Technologies access to comprehensive sales, technical, and lifecycle services training and support available from Cisco.

Corporate Technologies has leveraged its 26 years of industry experience to gain many valuable certifications with leading manufacturers of technology hardware and software. The company is one of the country's largest providers of managed IT services (http://www.gocorptech.com/services/index.html) for the small to medium sized business market and also offers custom Technology Advantage® (http://www.gocorptech.com/landing/swf/Corp_Tech_Main.html) support, VoIP and PBX telephone systems, computer networking solutions, repair and warranty services and systems integration and consulting. With a breadth of managed IT business solutions, multiple locations, and over 250 employees strong, Corporate Technologies is able to support their customers on a national level.

For additional information on Corporate Technologies or to view the new Technology Advantage® podcast (http://www.gocorptech.com/landing/swf/Corp_Tech_Main.html) visit www.gocorptech.com or call (763) 235-1360.

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