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Cisco TelePresence on National LambdaRail (NLR)

What is TelePresence?

Collaboration plays a central role in almost all activities at educational and research institutions, from K-12 through specialized research laboratories. Whether for classroom learning, collaborative research or meeting with colleagues around the world, TelePresence by Cisco over the NLR network powerfully improves an institution's ability to collaborate effectively.

Cisco TelePresence creates an immersive, in-person meeting experience among geographically dispersed users over the network. The "just like being there" quality of interactions over Cisco TelePresence is made possible by integrated, very high-end video and discrete audio capabilities. Users sit face to face across a "virtual" table, enabling a life-like caliber of collaboration not possible with earlier generations of videoconferencing technologies.

Learn how schools, colleges and universities are using Cisco TelePresence over NLR to collaborate with research partners or to offer students and staff curriculum and development offerings not possible in the classroom while avoiding the time, costs and carbons associated with physical travel.

NLR: A Catalyst for the Adoption of TelePresence in Research and Education

• The only research and education network in the world with its own TelePresence exchange with Cisco TelePresence
• The first interconnection of a research and education TelePresence exchange with a commercial TelePresence exchange
• Created, through an agreement with Tata Communications, the first truly international TelePresence platform for research and education, interconnecting TelePresence users in academia and industry in more than 150 countries (announced September 28, 2010)
• Pioneered the first international, point-to-point TelePresence session, and first multi-point TelePresence sessions over a research and education network
• Enabled the first inter-connection between a research and education TelePresence exchange and a commercial TelePresence exchange
• Can connect up to 12 distinct physical locations and 48 screens simultaneously
• Offers the convenience of Cisco TelePresence pre-set, single-button dialing
• The first U.S. unified Cisco TelePresence service for research and education, through a collaboration with Internet2 (announced February 8, 2010)

Frequently Asked Questions: TelePresence on NLR

Map of TelePresence Systems Currently on NLR

Cisco TelePresence Solutions for Higher Education