Sutus Achieves Polycom VIP Partner Status

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Telepresence and Holography / Holograms - November 2008

Editor’s viewpoint on their differences, likenesses and future...

We all just recently viewed an historic CNN holographic interview on an historic Election Night. CNN stated this type of imaging has never been done before on National TV and I believe that. I haven’t seen anything like it. The live interview caught me by surprise and sure had the “wow” factor attached to it didn’t it? Here’s a link to the actual interview.

CNN Hologram Video

The question now has to be asked. Is it Telepresence?

I’m no expert on the subject but I’m going to throw my hat into the ring, go out on a limb and say yes, I believe it is. Although I know many video conferencing purists are rolling their eyes and grabbing their guns right about now with my statement.

While I do know that Telepresence still hasn’t been universally defined (Houston, we have a problem), here’s how I see it…. Broken down to its simplest form - “tele” (through electronic means) and “presence” (present). This is how I’m justifying my opinion by lumping holography and Telepresence together. Just as Telepresence is surely an offshoot of video conferencing, holographic imaging (like we viewed on CNN) surely has to be considered an offshoot of Telepresence. The interviewer was “telepresent” from Chicago and beamed into the CNN Election Headquarters. She was most assuredly - “telepresent”. There was negligible latency, the imaging was fantastic and both interviewers were rehearsed on what they would say. I’ve just recently read that CNN actually “downgraded” the experience to make it “movie” quality and not as good as it could have been. Maybe they thought us mere mortals would be shocked if they showed their complete hand. I have a feeling it was so big to them, they didn’t want it to get upstaged by the historic election. I’m willing to bet we’ll see the “true” power of this technology in the upcoming weeks and months when they can put the pedal to the medal and show it off without having it sidetracked.

What an amazing time for this technology (all differences and opinions aside). Telepresence Doctors, nurses, teachers, schools and healthcare (healthpresence) will benefit from the recent gains in this state-of-the-art industry whether holograms, Telepresence or holography. Airlines also have to see the threat to a portion of their business travel. Hell, who wants go through security and fly to Miami for a two-hour conference when you can look them in the eye via Telepresence?

Beam me up Scotty! Simply amazing…!

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Your Editor and Administrator - L II
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Vancouver, B.C. (PRWEB) September 26, 2007 -- Sutus Inc. (http://www.sutus.com), a leading manufacturer of converged Phone, Data and Networking solutions (http://www.sutus.com) designed specifically for Small Business, today announced that Sutus has been granted VIP Partner status with Polycom and joins their ecosystem of interoperable, standards-based VoIP solutions.

The Polycom VoIP Interoperability Partner (VIP) Program (http://www.polycom.com/vip) allows manufacturers of SIP-based call control platforms to demonstrate through testing and certification that their premise-based (IP PBX) or hosted (Softswitch) call control solutions are interoperable on a defined feature set with Polycom SoundPoint IP® desktop and SoundStation® IP conference phones and SIP software.

"Achieving VIP Partnership status with Polycom is a significant endorsement for our company," said Shawn Chute Sutus' Executive Vice-president. "By partnering with Polycom at this level we have 100% interoperability with their critical feature set and have ensured seamless integration between our Business Central solution and their IP desktop and conference phones. Out of the box Polycom's IP phones automatically configure and work with our Business Central solution to create an all-in-one simple to use voice, data and networking solution designed specifically for small business (http://www.sutus.com)."

"The Polycom VIP program is designed to make it easier for the end customer to choose a best-of-breed, end-to-end VoIP solution that is fully interoperable and standards-based" said Chalan Aras, Vice President of Marketing for Polycom's Voice Communications division. "We work closely with select manufacturers of VoIP equipment in order to certify interoperability with our phones. We are pleased to see Sutus meet those standards and join the program as they fill a valuable spot delivering solutions focused on small business."

About Sutus Inc:

Sutus provides small businesses with easy to use and manage, enterprise quality telephone and office network infrastructure solutions. The Sutus Business Central is a cost-effective all-in-one solution that significantly reduces the need for third party installation and management. For additional details, please visit www.sutus.com. For more information please contact Sutus at (604) 987-8866.

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