Cisco has announced new tools designed to help businesses capture and share video.
On Thursday, the company said that it now provides "seamless integration" among its TelePresence Content Server, a means of broadcasting and recording meeting room video; the Cisco MXE 3500 Series Media Experience Engine, a network appliance for capturing, converting, and sharing video; and Cisco Show and Share, a webcasting and video-sharing network application.
According to the company, you'll be able to record an HD video from any video conferencing or TelePresence endpoint and post it to Show and Share, and you'll be able to stream a videoconference or TelePresence meeting directly to Show and Share.
“The explosion of personal video use over the past few years has created an increasing appetite for similar high-quality experiences in the enterprise,” Guido Jouret, Cisco’s chief technology officer, said in a statement. The tools will be available in upcoming releases the products.
What's more, a free Cisco Show and Share app for Apple iOs devices will be available in late October, and it will allow mobile users to search and watch existing videos as well as record and upload their own videos.
Earlier this year, CEO John Chambers outlined video as one of the company’s five "focuses". The Synergy Research Group released figures earlier this month that showed the unified communication (UC) market had grown 11 percent over the previous year, becoming a billion dollar industry. Most of the growth, Synergy says, was due to a 27 percent increase in desktop conferencing apps and a 33 percent jump in software-as-a-service conferencing apps.
