Using Cisco’s TelePresence system, which creates the feeling of meeting “face-to-face” to those who take part in a meeting through this collaboration system, reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 419,150 tonnes (equivalent to 76,209 of machines that were not driven), announced the company representatives.
By early February, 224 weeks after the launch of the program, 305,218 meetings were planned through Telepresence with multiple rooms, in companies around the world. Cisco representatives estimated that the savings are up to $776 million in costs for travels that were not made from a company to another, thanks to this system.
There are 985 conference rooms in the world equipped with this system. Most of them, 601, are in the U.S. and Canada, while in Europe there are 160 rooms. In China meetings are held using Telepresence system in 36 rooms, and in Japan in 17.
Implementing such a system of collaboration depends on many factors such as company size or number of the company’s offices that are using this technological solution. Also, depending on the particular collaboration system chosen, the room has to be built in a specific way, on varying sizes adapted to the visual, sound system and furniture.
As a general answer to this question, the list price of a TelePresence system ranges from $33,900 (a single screen TelePresence model) and $340,000 (three-screen model) for the top version of the collaboration system. These costs represent only the value of equipment provided by Cisco, without any additional costs.