iTnews recently visited Internode's Sydney offices to test the service provider's inter-city telepresence suite.
on Aug 26 2011 11:25AM
Australian internet service provider Internode is headquartered in Adelaide and has corporate branch offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
iTnews visited Internode’s Sydney office for a demonstration of the Cisco Telepresence system they use for inter-office meetings.
Internode executive Steve Harpas told iTnews every person he’s had a meeting with via Cisco Telepresence has been impressed at how much better the experience is than video conferencing or Skype.
Cisco conducts extensive checks on whether a company has quality network connectivity before installing a Telepresence system. The meter (top right) indicates a perfect connection has been established Sydney-Adelaide.
Cisco encourages customers to match curtains, furniture and wall colours at each telepresence location, lending to the notion of a real, face-to-face meeting.
A separate side screen can display shared documents; in this case a PDF diagram of Internode's Domestic Private IP network.
Single-screen telepresence systems use voice-activated sensors to automatically switch between displaying meeting participants at different locations.
Telepresence systems can be purchased in a variety of sizes. Internode has a three-screen system in their main Adelaide office and one-screen systems in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne (left to right on screen).
Australian internet service provider Internode is headquartered in Adelaide and has corporate branch offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.