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Presidio to Integrate Telepresence

Greenbelt, MD – December 12, 2006 –Infrastructure services firm Presidio Corp today announced that Cisco has selected it to provide services around its TelePresence videconferencing system.

Presidio is already one of the first companies to have any hands-on experience with TelePresence, having recently installed a few systems in Cisco offices around the US, Presidio president Rudy Casasola said.

With its "advanced technology provider" status, the company is one of only four integrators chosen by Cisco to consult, install and provide support services for Telepresence, Casasola said.

Telepresence is Cisco's new meeting room videoconference technology, which utilizes a number of flat screen televisions, microphones and cameras to create what Casasola calls a "zero- latency" videoconferencing experience. Cisco is very particular about the physical setting of its TelePresence rooms, right down to the office furniture and wall colors.

The actual physical installation of the system, Casasola said, will only take a few days and involves mostly setting up the rooms and the video installation. But a good chunk of Presidio's work will be in the assessment stage of the process, such as working with clients' network and facilities management staff to make sure the system will work in the first place.

And with a $299,000 price tag for a six-person room system, including plasma TVs, mics and cameras (two-person setups go for $79,000), readying the network environment and physical office space is a crucial step.

Presidio expects that the kinds of clients who can afford the system will be large companies and government agenices that most likely have their own network teams, so managing the networks that TelePresence sits on probably won't be a big service for Presidio. Instead, Casasola envisions siginificant requirement analysis and network assessment in the early stages.

Casasola sees potentially strong adoption of TelePresence in federal agencies such as the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense and State, which have already invested in serious videoconferencing technology.

On the enterprise level, he mentioned the legal industry, financial markets and manufacturing, or basically any type of industry in which a company is distributed geographically, as early adopters. There's promise from the health care sector as well, where the system can connect providers with each other or with patients for consultations.

Presidio is a privately owned network and communications specialist, with a focus on designing, deploying and managing a range of infrastructure services. The company has grown at an average of more than 17% a year for the past five years, driven by especially strong growth in the VoIP and security areas, Casasola said. Presidio has about 265 employees.

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