Cisco TelePresence

Cisco’s TelePresence technology invites vivid collaboration with partners down the street or around the globe. This highly sophisticated videoconference system makes it appear that everyone is in the same room during a meeting. The installation in the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery features the largest and most powerful model Cisco makes for general purchase. It can connect with other high-end video conferencing systems around the world, including the 1,000 TelePresence systems in use today.
 
During a videoconference, the monitor displays an identical semicircular table in the remote TelePresence room, making the tables at each site appear as one round table. When a person in the remote room speaks, he or she sounds as though they are in the room with the local participants.
 
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The TelePresence room seats the participants in front of a wall of high-definition monitors and exceptional acoustical equipment. As many as 40 locations can connect in real time.

 
A similar unit has been installed in UW–Madison’s Education building, which has been newly expanded and renovated due to a generous gift from John and Tashia Morgridge, the UW–Madison alumni whose $50 million gift led to the development of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. John Morgridge is chairman emeritus of Cisco Systems and a member of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation’s board of trustees.