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Cisco Unified Communications

Save costs, enable flexible working and reduce your carbon emissions

Conferencing

By introducing voice, video and/or web conferencing into your business you can make significant savings on travel costs:

• Every £1 spent on conferencing saves £19 in terms of travel and wasted time (salary) costs - (Source, BT Conferencing Research 2006)

You can also make a positive impact on your carbon footprint:

• If every small business in the UK replaced 10 meetings with audio conferences, small businesses could collectively save more than 1.7m tonnes of CO2 (Source, BT Conferencing Research, 2007)

Cisco Meeting Place Express

We can provide you with an on site solution through Cisco Meeting Place Express - enabling audio, video and web conferencing.

Audio:

• IP based and works on alongside your communications solution, e.g. Cisco Unified Communication manager
• Easy to set up and use
• Features in schedule meeting, set up impromptu meetings, record the meeting, dial out to participants, mute participants

Video:

• Desk top - simple to use once you plug in a webcam
• Instant access to video conferencing to speed up decision making with your colleagues

Web conferencing:

• Share documents and/or desktop - change on line
• Simple meeting management
• Set up from web, outlook, IP phone & Cisco Personal Communicator

We also have a range of more sophisticated High Definition conferencing solutions through a number of suppliers.

We offer a range of hosted conferencing solutions involving no up front cost. For example, with Webex you get a simple to set up service that we'll manage and you just pay for what you use.

Power management

We can help you save money through managing your power utilisation from an easy to access web based interface.

The new Netgenium Policy Server Software enables management of all office IP equipment. It allows you to remotely switch off IP based phone and light devices when they are not in use, whether this is based on specific timings or an event.

Again, you can make a positive impact on your carbon footprint:

• Lighting an office overnight wastes enough energy to heat water for 1000 cups of tea. Switching off non-essential equipment in an office overnight saves enough energy to run a small car for 100 miles (Source, Carbon Trust)

Find out more

To discuss Cisco Communications Management solutions or any communications systems requirements for your business, contact your account manager, or call us on 0800 707 6320. Alternatively use our online enquiry form.