Cisco Ships Breakthrough All-in-One Cloud-Based Meeting Room Product to End the Pain of Meetings

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Jan 24, 2017) - At Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), we want to end miserable meetings. That means we need to clean up the cacophony of dongles, wires, and outdated hardware in most conference rooms today. We also need to solve problems that people experience as they get ready to meet (Where's the agenda? Who has the latest presentation?) and when they need to follow up after.

To put an end to miserable meetings, you can't just bolt on a new device or create a new app. Solving the pain of meetings means building breakthrough new hardware that is designed, developed and deployed together with new software in the cloud. It must all be dead simple to use, comprehensive, and priced affordably so more people can use it. Today, Cisco delivers exactly that with Cisco Spark™ Board and Cisco Spark Meetings.

Cisco Spark Board: New All-in-One Meeting Room Product
While we're more connected than ever, surprisingly many meeting rooms have just an old speakerphone. When they do have more technology, it often doesn't work, is hard to use or breaks down. Wires and remotes litter the table. No wonder meetings can feel like a waste of time -- we can't fully engage and get things done with all of the disconnected technology getting in the way.

We created the Cisco Spark Board to clean up the conference-room chaos and connect physical rooms to the virtual spaces where so much work gets done. The Cisco Spark Board is an incredible, cloud-powered all-in-one device. It gives you:

1. A wireless presentation device that works for everyone, everywhere.
Walk up to any Cisco Spark Board in the world -- yours or not -- and with one click you can share. This is unprecedented; we are creating a global, worldwide network of workspaces, which you can access from anywhere. As you approach, the board will recognize and greet you. No Bluetooth or special WiFi or network connection required. You control it all from your PC, Mac, tablet or mobile phone. This is screen sharing that just works. We achieved it through a tight integration with the Cisco Spark platform plus groundbreaking new ultrasound wireless pairing technology. Remote controls are a thing of the past.