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Cisco Sales Network in Nebraska, NE:About Cisco Unified Communications Solutions by PBM IT - Call (888) 233-647.Cisco Unified Communications Solutions provided by PBM IT provide your business with certified engineering support that allows you to focus on your primary business functions instead of on IT considerations. In 1998, networking equipment giant Cisco Systems got off to an early lead in the VoIP market after acquiring the CallManager product through the acquisition of Selsius Systems. This allowed Cisco Systems to introduce a packet-based voice system that competed with other traditional vendors, such as Alcatel, Avaya, Mitel, Nortel, and Siemens. Since then, these and many other vendors have developed their own proprietary VoIP systems in response to the growing demand for VoIP systems. Cisco Unified Personal Communicator offers voice, video, instant messaging, conferencing, and presence on a single application. Run voice, data, and video communications over a single, converged network with call-processing software, telephones, and endpoint devices. New to the Cisco Unified Communications system are Cisco Unified Personal Communicator, Cisco Unified Presence Server and Customer Interaction Analyzer. Cisco continues to bridge the communications islands with innovative solutions building on the enterprise Wi-Fi (802.11) networks and the GSM public networks. In conjunction with leading wireless handset suppliers such as Nokia and RIM, Cisco will soon bring to market single and dual mode Smartphone solutions which drive enhanced productivity of mobile enterprise employees both inside and outside the office. These single device products allow users to reduce the communications complexity and help companies manage costs without losing the productivity. Unified Communications can help you gain significant productivity improvements for every person in your organziation by deploying an integrated voice and data platform, resulting in lower total cost of ownership. Use of softphones resulted in an average savings of $1,727 per month in cell phone and long distance charges. Mobile workers also saved 40 minutes each day, enjoyed greater business communications convenience, and generated annual productivity gains of 3.5 days per year through business continuity impact. IP telephony provides a way for organizations to extend consistent communications services to all employees in their workspaces, whether they are in main campus locations, at branch offices, working remotely, or are mobile. IP telephony transmits voice and video communications over the network using the open-standards-based Internet Protocol. Cisco Unified Presence is a standards-based platform that collects information from multiple sources about user availability and communications capabilities to provide rich presence status and facilitate presence-enabled communications with Cisco Unified Communications and other critical business applications. Cisco Smart Business Unified Communications System offers small businesses a simple, affordable, easy-to-manage unified communications system, eliminates multiple servers and combines voice, data, voicemail, Automated Attendant, video, security, and wireless capabilities. It also supports the portfolio of Cisco Unified IP Phones, Internet connectivity with firewall protection, virtual private networks (VPNs), and wireless LAN access for reliable, highly secure communications. Combined with its optional desktop application support, Cisco Smart Business Communications System enables more effective collaboration by using simple yet powerful capabilities such as instant messaging, single-number reach, and desktop control of all calls and messages to help enrich the total communications experience. The Cisco Unified Communications system is an open and extensible platform for real-time communications based on presence, mobility and the intelligent information network. The Cisco Unified Communications 500 Series for Small Businesses, or UC 500, is essentially a scaled-down version of Cisco's ISR (Integrated Services Router) platform. The UC 500 sports an eight-port PoE switch, 4 FXO (analog line) ports, 4 FXS ports (to connect analog phones), one Ethernet WAN connection port and one uplink port to connect an external switch. The UC 500 comes preloaded with both Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express, which handles call routing and other VoIP functions, and Cisco Unity Express, which handles more advanced applications like voicemail and auto attendant/interactive voice response. All the features you'd expect are in there, including conferencing, intercom, and hold music from an internal file or an external source via the UC 500's audio jack. Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express is an integrated voice, video, and Web conferencing solution that helps medium-sized organizations realize the cost savings and productivity benefits of deploying conferencing over internal networks. The solution provides simple, powerful conferencing functions that are easy to deploy and manage and includes phone, Microsoft Outlook, and Web interfaces for setting up, attending, and managing meetings. Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express VT is a deployment option that is designed to extend the capabilities of Cisco Unified Communications Manager video telephony environments by enabling users to simply extend point-to-point voice and video communications to impromptu, multiparty voice, video, and Web conference. Cisco Unified Communications Specialized Partners are uniquely qualified to help you implement the right solution to meet your business communication needs. More than 1600 Cisco Unified Communications Specialized reseller, integrator, and service provider partners around the globe sell, deploy, and support more than 90 percent of Cisco Unified Communications systems in the market today. Cisco offers three unified communications specialization levels to address the full spectrum of customer needs—Express, Advanced, and Master—where a channel partner must demonstrate greater sales, technical, and service capabilities at each level. Cisco is committed to providing accessible solutions. The company recognizes that network resources must be accessible and usable by all employees, including people with disabilities. As a result, Cisco customers can fully realize the value of their diverse workforces. For more information about how the Cisco Unified Communications platform conforms to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, go to http://www.cisco.com/go/accessibility or contact your Cisco account manager. |
