Will Cisco Telepresence be part of “Black Friday Sales”?
Will stores need to put the Umi on Black Friday to move the product?
By Larry Chaffin on Fri, 11/12/10 - 7:51pm.
Over the last month I have received many emails talking about the new Umi Home Telepresence by Cisco Systems. While many have talked about the price of the system that they are seeing on the Best Buy's web page for pre-order ($599.98), others have asked about deals. This is the month for deals with Christmas coming soon and Black Friday is right around the corner. So, will we see a Cisco Telepresence product on sales during Black Friday?
I stopped by a Best Buy Store and asked about Black Friday, I was told that since it is on pre-order they doubt the product would be included. But I was also told you never know. I would think that if the product is not selling and product is sitting on the shelves that deals will be there, the discounts will come. I would not expect the large discounts that business customers see from Cisco, but something far smaller. It will be interesting to see how the product does during the Christmas season. I would think it will be do or die for the product. It might need to wait until the economy and spending picks back up.
If you see the product listed on a Black Friday ad, please post for everyone.
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Larry Chaffin Ph.D is the Chief Executive Officer/Chairman and founder of Pluto Networks, a Consulting and VAR partner specializing in WAN acceleration, VoIP, WLAN, telepresence and security.
Pluto Networks is a Riverbed reseller. Pluto was previously a Cisco reseller but in June, 2010, ended its reseller relationship with the company and is no longer a Cisco channel partner.
Pluto Networks specializes in the needs of small, large and enterprise companies by always giving them a great ROI on the products they sell. Pluto Networks has a presence in 23 countries around the world enabling all of its consultants to be virtual. Larry was a Judge at Interop for the Best of Interop Awards for 2009.
Larry has also co-authored all of the books listed below:
Managing Cisco Secure Networks, Skype Me, Practical VOIP Security, Configuring Check Point NGX VPN-1/Firewall-1,Configuring Juniper Networks NetScreen & SSG Firewalls,Essential Computer Security: Everyone's Guide to Email, Internet, and Wireless Security, How to Cheat at Microsoft Vista Administration, Microsoft Vista for IT Security Professionals, Asterisk Hacking, 2008 VoIP and Video Conferencing, Infosecurity 2008 Threat Analysis and author of Building a VOIP Network with Nortel's MS5100, along with co-authoring/ghost writing eleven other technology books for VIOP, WLAN, security and optical technologies. Larry is currently working on a follow up to Building a VoIP network with Nortel's MCS 5100 Book as well as new books on Cisco Telepresence Networks, Practical VoIP case studies and WAN Acceleration with Riverbed.
Larry also has more than 29 vendor certifications and has been working on many others. Larry has been a principal architect around the world in 22 countries for many Fortune 100 companies designing VoIP, security, wireless and optical networks. He has expanded over time also to include application acceleration. Larry is working with worldwide company now out of Asia as a Special Assistant to the CEO and CIO as they go through organizational and network changes, helping them with strategic advice from his years of experience.
Pluto Networks is a channel partner of, LifeSize, Riverbed, Call Copy, Fastsoft and Symantec.
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