Getting Your Cisco Systems ERP Certification

Video Conferencing vs. Telepresence

Telepresence picks up where video conferencing left off. Telepresence IS real time, full-high-definition, immersible sound and vision. Telepresence IS most importantly: the feeling of being “there” when you’re “here”. Telepresence is lifelike, video conferencing is not. Telepresence is that hi-line Mercedes AMG, video conferencing is a Ford Escort - Period.

Video conferencing has been around a while now but has always lacked the feeling we spoke about above. Jumpy computer screens, broken audio and poor lighting add to the impersonal touches of video conferencing (ie slow motion camcorder on top of your computer monitor). Finally, technology, bandwidth, vision and sound have all converged on video conferencing to create the telepresence experience. It’s about time! Crystal clear surround sound and real-time full-high-definition visual effects enhance the feeling of being there – thus telepresence. That nervous twitch, roll of the eyes, sniffle, tap of the foot – things you see when you’re present and sitting across a conference room table – things you don’t see or feel from video conferencing, but do with telepresence.

Today, what “real” uses are there for Telepresence?

There is no short answer even possible here. We’ll name a few, more like we’ll put your imagination to work. Imagine a single specialist doctor in Canada treating patients in Haiti via telepresence. Robots in space doing the actual work while the telepresence operator dons his telepresence helmet and gloves at his workstation in Texas. Meeting your Russian company vice president while you’re in the executive telepresence room at the office in Denver. Just a few…

What are “real” savings of Telepresence?

Your imagination still working on the last answer? Don’t let up yet! What carbon footprint? Don’t need that airplane ticket to go check on your staff in Russia now do you? What lost life in the Iraqi war? Unmanned drones and soldiers via telepresence. Military and combat cost savings? Immeasurable. Less travel costs, airline frustration, fuel, lost time, carbon emissions, etc. Those are tangible, real savings to name just a very limited few.

You starting to see what telepresence can do that video conferencing can’t? We hope you see what we’re seeing! Telepresence – its time has arrived!

Check out the video thread in Section 8 of the Telepresence Forum where you can watch some Telepresence YouTube videos! If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video must be worth a million!

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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.

Gavin John owns and operates http://www.erpsystemstore.com Erp System. To find out more about how ERP can help your business, please visit http://www.erpsystemstore.com

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To learn more about this state-of-the-art immersive technology categorized as "Telepresence", visit these websites:

Telepresence Today - Telepresence information and editor qualified headline news

Telepresence Forum - Free user discussion forum

Telepresence Report - 24/7 breaking Telepresence related news and information