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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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Cisco's B2B Internetworking Product Center (IPC) is what drives its ecommerce functions is being majorly overhauled and is being moved from the cumbersome CGI/Perl driven applications to the more stable and scalable Java/CORBA framework. The developers at Cisco along with the Java team at Alta Software are going to be finishing this task soon completing a one year software development cycle. The new framework is expected to increase performance and also to offer new levels of customization and personalization with improved management and tighter integration into other systems of Cisco and its suppliers and customers.

Cisco has used an accelerated implementation that has enabled them to implement their ERP system in just 9 months for a cost of $15 million. Cisco had several advantages when they decided to implement their ERP. As a company Cisco was much smaller than what it is now and they had a simpler work environment. However, they were experiencing huge growth at that time and their legacy information systems were beginning to fail. Cisco made several good decisions in the selection and implementation of their ERP.

To attain a Cisco certification, you must first pass the Cisco Certification for Network Professionals test. This test certifies all qualifying candidates as being able to install, configure, and troubleshoot local and wide area networks with a 100-500 nodes. They can also manage switches and routers that are part of the network as well as edge applications that serve to integrate wireless and security issues of the network. There are 4 tests that you need to pass in order to get this certification and this needs to be renewed once every 3 years.

In case you are facing difficulties in passing the tests or you just require some help then there are several websites offering CCNP boot camps that are quite effective and will certainly help you pass the test easily. These classes are quite tough though and can last from early morning to late evening. They serve as great primers of what you will face in the test and are will make you quickly assimilate all the information that is used in their preparation for Cisco Systems ERP certification.

Network professionals of course desire to be at the top of the game as soon as they can and they need to have the necessary certification from Cisco to prove their qualification. The highest such test is the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert certification and only around 3% of Cisco certified network professionals reach CCIP because it is the most difficult of tests. Once certified the network professional can install, configure, and of course operate networks in highly specialized and complicated environments using special protocols and also implement Cisco hardware and establish large scale networks. The professionals can also design and implement new networking strategies and handle all the difficulties of hardware and design.

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To learn more about Telepresence, the revolutionary new style of immersive video conferencing; visit these websites:

Telepresence - "Ride on the Next Plane of Existence" - Telepresence
Telepresence Web Portal - Telepresence Internet web portal
Telepresence Report - 24/7 breaking Telepresence related news and information
Via Telepresence - Video conferencing via Telepresence
Telepresence Forum - Free user discussion forum for everything Telepresence related
Telepresence Today - Telepresence information and editor qualified headline news
Telepresence Resource Directory - Telepresence web resource directory
Telepresence Tube - Telepresence videos, pictures and more