Cisco BE6000, Design Manual

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Introduction
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Businesses around the world are struggling with escalating travel costs. Growing corporate expense
accounts reflect the high price of travel, but travel also takes a toll on the health and well being of
employees and their families. Often, the only way to solve a difficult problem is to fly an expert to the
location to see the issue and discuss it with the people at the site. When an expert cannot see what is
being described, the resolution of a complex problem often takes much longer.
Workers at remote sites often feel isolated from their departments because they do not spend enough
face time with their peers and they feel disconnected from the decision-making process. This isolation can
lead to lower job performance and less job satisfaction from employees who do not work at the
organization’s main location.
Hiring process can be very lengthy and costly, especially when candidates are located in other cities or
when multiple people are involved in the interview process. Organizations with video conferencing systems
in their offices can reduce expenses and time by bringing candidates into the nearest facility and allowing
interviews to be conducted both in person and over video.
The face-to-face interaction during video collaboration meetings helps to boost information retention,
promotes increased attention span, and reduces participant confusion. The nonverbal cues experienced in
a visual meeting are sometimes more important than what is actually spoken.
Use Case: Video Collaboration with Desktop and Multipurpose Room
Systems
Organizations want to reap the budgetary and productivity gains that a remote workforce allows—without
compromising the benefits of face-to-face interaction. They want to allow the flexibility for an employee to
work across remote sites while still maintaining the familiar in-person contact of their peers and managers.
They also want to enrich the collaboration experience in their meeting rooms, boardrooms, auditoriums
and other shared environments. A solution is needed that is fast to deploy and easy to manage from a
central location without replicating costly components at their remote sites.
This design guide enables the following capabilities:
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Single cluster centralized design to simplify deployment and management while saving on
infrastructure components.
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URI and numeric dialing to allow video-enabled IP phones to call room systems.
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Provisioning the videoconference bridge for the site.
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Conference resource optimization, management and scheduling.
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Instant, Personal and Scheduled Collaboration Meeting Rooms (CMR) Conferences.
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Captures video and presentations for live streaming and video-on-demand (VoD) viewing.