Yesterday Cisco hosted the Cisco Spark Launch in San Francisco, CA. The event included an exclusive look at the latest Cisco Spark innovations, hands-on demonstrations, and thoughts and remarks from event hosts Chuck Robbins, CEO, and Rowan Trollope, SVP and GM of Cisco's IoT and Applications.
Cisco Spark is your business messaging app, conferencing solution, and phone system all in one, launched by Cisco in March 2016. Yesterday's product launch released the newest technology provided by the Spark platform, the Cisco Spark Board. The Spark Board is a 3-in-1 collaboration solution allowing you to present wirelessly, white board digitally, and host video and audio calls.
Spark Board was purpose built from the cloud up with development driven by addressing the 3 typical needs and challenges seen in 95% of conference rooms.
Needs
- Wireless presentation screen
- Digital whiteboard tool
- Audio and video conferencing
Challenges
- Ease of product deployment
- Cost effectiveness
- Complexities of product capabilities
With Cisco Spark Board all of your essential meeting capabilities are brought together in one simple device.
The wireless presentation screen allows you to share your presentations, documents and drawings in a Cisco Spark room. Presentations can be shared from any device via the cloud, and includes secure pairing with any personal device and the board.
The white board allows you to easily draw and sketch with the Cisco Spark Pen or your finger. Team members can white board in the room or remotely and content is saved automatically to your Cisco Spark virtual space.
The audio and video conferencing is the highest quality available. The fixed-lens camera has 4k resolution and an 86° field of view, which brings the feeling of an in-person meetings to your virtual space. The new revolutionary mic gains down and up to adjust to people’s volume and position in the room. This state of the art audio and video technology makes virtual meetings feel more personal and natural.
Deployment of the Spark Board (and any Cisco Spark SX, MX or DX video endpoints) takes ~90 seconds and consists of 3 simple steps:
- Add a new room system to your Spark Portal
- Receive a 16-digit code
- Enter the code to your device and you're ready to go!
Learn more about Spark Board here, read CRN's "12 Reasons Why Cisco's Spark Board Is Its Coolest Product Ever" here, or watch the three key features demonstrated for yourself:
Written By: Eden Penman, LookingPoint Marketing Coordinator