Cisco's products and services enhance mobility and enable people to collaborate remotely, cutting greenhouse gas emissions by reducing travel.
Our network-based, integrated solutions range from IP communications to mobility, customer care, web conferencing, messaging, enterprise social software, and telepresence as described below.
Many of these solutions also enable faster decision making, improved cross-cultural communications, broader dissemination of information, and more efficient use of business resources.
Cisco TelePresence combines high-definition audio and video for live, life-sized, face-to-face interaction over the network.
The acquisition of Tandberg in FY10 is enabling us to bring telepresence to desktop and mobile workers. Cisco TelePresence facilities were introduced by partners in 25 public locations in eight countries, extending the benefits of the technology to a much wider user base.
Cisco WebEx enables users anywhere in the world with an Internet connection to participate in dynamic web-based meetings, share presentations and documents in real time, and promote collaboration without the need for travel.
In FY10, WebEx had more than 3.2 million registered users around the world hosting an average of 225,000 meetings a day. More than 11 million meeting participants connect through WebEx each month (see Story Highlight on how the University of Notre Dame is embracing WebEx). We have also extended the service to a range of mobile devices.
Cisco Virtual Office supports flexible working by providing remote workers with access to high-quality secure network services, including IP phone, wireless, data, and video services. This helps to reduce travel and enables energy savings from more efficient use of office buildings.
More than 19,000 Cisco employees use Cisco Virtual Office. In a Teleworker Survey of Cisco employees in FY09, the average user gained 2.4 hours per week by reducing commute time and saved approximately 23 travel miles per day. We estimate that net greenhouse gas emissions savings from telecommuting (allowing for increased energy costs at home) by Cisco employees alone total 47,320 metric tonnes of CO2e a year.