Cisco Introduces New Cisco Spark Devices, Enhanced Content Security Options and New Customer Care Capabilities

ORLANDO, FL--(Marketwired - Mar 27, 2017) - Enterprise Connect -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) has continued to roll out new innovations for Cisco Spark, including new video conferencing solutions that are built to register to both Cisco Spark™ and on-premises deployments, advanced security options, the ability for any standards-based SIP endpoint (hardware or soft client) to join a Cisco® Spark Meeting and new customer care capabilities.

"Cisco Spark is already a powerful platform, but we are constantly innovating to add more advanced capabilities," said Jens Meggers, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Cisco's Cloud Collaboration Technology Group. "Our goal is to create powerful, well-designed end-to-end experiences -- for the user, IT and the Enterprise. Cisco Spark delivers on this vision and is quickly becoming the center of the meeting experience."

New Video Collaboration Hardware
Designed to work with Cisco Spark, the new Cisco Spark Room Kit Series gives integrators what they need to extend powerful, intelligent meeting experiences to small, medium and large conference rooms. The two new products -- Cisco Spark Room Kit and Room Kit Plus -- attach to standard HD screens and convert them into powerful video collaboration systems. The Room Kits enable smarter meetings, smarter presentation capabilities and smarter room/device integrations to enhance the meeting experience and bring innovations once exclusive to higher-end, more expensive systems to every room and every team:

• Smarter meetings: Integrated 5K Ultra HD camera delivers intelligent view capabilities, such as automatic framing and speaker tracking.
• Smarter presentations: Dual screens, dual content sources, wireless sharing, and 4K content make for great presentations.
• Smarter integrations: Cisco Spark enabled Room Kits can count and track the number of people in the conference room during and between calls, allowing facilities managers to get a better understanding of how well the spaces are utilized.
• Registration flexibility: Built for both Cisco Spark and on-premises deployments, protecting your investment.

The Room Kit is designed for small/medium rooms of up to seven people, while the Room Kit Plus can accommodate medium/large rooms of up to 14 people. The Room Kit is an all-in-one device with camera, speakers and microphones built in. The Room Kit Plus has a separate quad camera bar with four individual cameras to accommodate larger and deeper rooms. Because Room Kit and Room Kit Plus are fully cloud managed, they can be set up in minutes. Both systems are designed to connect natively with Cisco Spark but can also register on-premises.