Cisco this week rolled out a lower end TelePresence system at the VoiceCon show in Orlando. Colleague Tim Greene has the full story here.
The CTS 1300 system costs $89,000, compared to the $300,000 price tag for a full-blown configuration. It is designed for deployment in existing teleconference rooms without upgrading them to accommodate top-of-the-line telepresence gear.
CTS 1300 consists of a 65-inch high definition screen and three high definition cameras mounted above a coder-decoder. The unit is installed against a wall and is 9 inches deep. It can send and receive at 1080p resolution and drop down to 720p for sites with less than 2Mbps network bandwidth.
The device also supports a technology Cisco calls 720p Light that runs over 1.5Mbps links such as T-1 circuits at full 30 frames per second.
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