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Cisco TelePresence Systems (CTS) systems create live, face-to-face meeting experiences, providing a breakthrough virtual conferencing and collaboration experience that transcends anything previously achievable by videoconferencing. While the business case for deploying CTS is compelling, implementation can be challenging. In this book, three leading Cisco experts cover everything technical professionals and managers need to know to successfully design, operate, and manage CTS in their environments.

Written by the leading Cisco CTS technical experts, this book covers all the components and elements of a working CTS solution: video, audio, QoS, security, call processing, calendaring integration, concierge services, operations, management, and much more. Four detailed case studies illustrate key concepts through realistic deployment scenarios.

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VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! - 2009-06-15
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Are you part of a technical staff tasked with deploying Cisco TelePresence systems? If you are, then this book is for you! Authors Tim Szigeti, Kevin McMenamy, Roland Saville, and Alan Glowacki, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that introduces you to Cisco TelePresence technologies.

Authors Szigeti, McMenamy, Saville and Glowacki, begin by introducing you to Cisco, TelePresence, by tracing the evolution of video communications from the 1964 World's Fair to 2006. Then, the authors show you the various components that comprise Cisco TelePresence systems and solutions. The authors also show you in more detail how the Cisco TelePresence codec interacts with the high-definition displays and cameras, microphones and speakers, the IP Phones, auxiliary components, and, most importantly, the network. They continue by detailing how individual components interconnect and interrelate within Cisco TelePresence systems. Then, the authors present a foundational context for the best practice designs, by introducing concepts and metrics relating to network availability for TelePresence deployments. Next, they lay a base for the validated designs, by introducing concepts and metrics relating to network quality of service for TelePresence deployments. The authors also provide some background for the designs by introducing concepts and technologies relating to signaling, control, and security design for TelePresence deployments. The continue by describing topics that are rarely covered in Cisco Press books and that many networking professionals might be unfamiliar with, but nonetheless are critical to properly designing rooms to support TelePresence. Then, the authors detail network considerations, targets, and design recommendations for highly available TelePresence networks. Next, the authors detail network considerations, targets, and design recommendations for QoS enabled TelePresence networks. They also outline firewall design options for TelePresence deployments. Then, the authors examine TelePresence call-signaling components. Next, the authors expand the complexity of the TelePresence deployments by introducing the Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch, which enables up to 48 TelePresence segments to be joined together in a single conference. Finally, the authors introduce a solution that enables one business to place TelePresence calls to another, namely the Cisco TelePresence Inter-Company Solution.

This most excellent book is organized in such a way that it can be read from cover-to-cover. Perhaps more importantly, this great book can be used as a quick reference guide to specific technical information and design recommendations.

Great Introduction to Cisco TelePresence - 2009-08-26
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As a Consulting Systems Engineer for a Cisco Gold Partner, I need to educated myself on the basics of design, architecture, and deployment of Cisco TelePresence. "Cisco TelePresence Fundamentals" by Cisco Press provided me what that information.

"Cisco TelePresence Fundamentals" follows the same successful formula as many of the other Cisco Press Fundamentals series. The first few chapters provide a cursory overview of the solution, including historical background and product portfolio information. The second section of the book delves into the core technological components of the Cisco TelePresence solution. For the experience Voice/UC or Route/Switch engineer, much of this content will be a refresher, such as QoS and Call Control. For a new individual first being exposed to these technologies, the chapters provide excellent coverage. The final section of the text delves down on the specific Cisco TelePresence design concepts, including the importance of room layout and design, detailed network design and configuration requirements, multipoint design, and multi-company telepresence design principles and best practices.

A great book for a Cisco partner SE to have, as well as any end-user interested in exploring the Cisco TelePresence solution.

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