TiVerity Achieves SMB Specialization from Cisco USA

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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Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) June 25, 2008 -- TiVerity announced today it has achieved SMB Specialization from Cisco®. 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.

Commenting on the specialization, Pete Schamberger, Chief Executive Officer, TiVerity Consulting said, "TiVerity has always thrived on mastering cutting edge technologies and achievement of the Cisco® SMB Specialization further strengthens our ability to offer innovative solutions to the SMB market space. With this specialization, we have advanced our portfolio of service and product offerings and look forward to continuing to make significant contributions to all market segments through our extended partnership with Cisco®."

"The Cisco SMB Specialization was created in response to customer demand for channel partners to be capable of designing and implementing SMB-specific Cisco solutions," said Surinder Brar, senior director of worldwide channels at Cisco. "With the SMB Specialization, TiVerity has made an investment in obtaining the training, skills and knowledge necessary to play a pivotal role in meeting this increasing demand."

To earn SMB Specialization, TiVerity fulfilled training and exam requirements. TiVerity also met the personnel, training, and post-sales support requirements set forth by Cisco.

The Cisco Resale Channel Program provides partners with the training required to build sales, technical and Cisco Lifecycle Services skills. Cisco resale partner certifications--Gold, Silver, Premier and Select--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.

About TiVerity

TiVerity Consulting, Inc. has distinguished itself in both the federal and commercial business sectors, providing full lifecycle deployment and successful integrations of Cisco Unified Communication and Cisco Unified Contact Center core technologies. As a niche player in the contact center market, TiVerity specializes in the strategic allocation and utilization of contact center resources and the centralization and consolidation of multi-site, geographically distributed contact center operations. TiVerity's deployment solutions incorporate the Cisco Unified Communications suite of products as the telecommunications middleware layer of the contact center environment/operation.

TiVerity delivers robust technical solutions that provide for the continuity of service, while allowing contact centers to realize the efficiencies of modernized operating environments. TiVerity's proven ability to both design and implement roadmaps for the migration of present day contact center services to tomorrow's best technology practices is directly tied to the infrastructure and implementation of integrated multi-media contact center solutions. TiVerity is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Cisco, Cisco Systems and the Cisco logo are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems Inc. in the United States and certain other countries. TiVerity Consulting, Inc. is a registered trademark of TiVerity Consulting Inc. in the United States.

http://www.TiVerity.com

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