Sentinel Technologies Achieves Cisco's Highest Partner Achievement Award for Fourth Straight Year

Video Conferencing vs. Telepresence

Telepresence picks up where video conferencing left off. Telepresence IS real time, full-high-definition, immersible sound and vision. Telepresence IS most importantly: the feeling of being “there” when you’re “here”. Telepresence is lifelike, video conferencing is not. Telepresence is that hi-line Mercedes AMG, video conferencing is a Ford Escort - Period.

Video conferencing has been around a while now but has always lacked the feeling we spoke about above. Jumpy computer screens, broken audio and poor lighting add to the impersonal touches of video conferencing (ie slow motion camcorder on top of your computer monitor). Finally, technology, bandwidth, vision and sound have all converged on video conferencing to create the telepresence experience. It’s about time! Crystal clear surround sound and real-time full-high-definition visual effects enhance the feeling of being there – thus telepresence. That nervous twitch, roll of the eyes, sniffle, tap of the foot – things you see when you’re present and sitting across a conference room table – things you don’t see or feel from video conferencing, but do with telepresence.

Today, what “real” uses are there for Telepresence?

There is no short answer even possible here. We’ll name a few, more like we’ll put your imagination to work. Imagine a single specialist doctor in Canada treating patients in Haiti via telepresence. Robots in space doing the actual work while the telepresence operator dons his telepresence helmet and gloves at his workstation in Texas. Meeting your Russian company vice president while you’re in the executive telepresence room at the office in Denver. Just a few…

What are “real” savings of Telepresence?

Your imagination still working on the last answer? Don’t let up yet! What carbon footprint? Don’t need that airplane ticket to go check on your staff in Russia now do you? What lost life in the Iraqi war? Unmanned drones and soldiers via telepresence. Military and combat cost savings? Immeasurable. Less travel costs, airline frustration, fuel, lost time, carbon emissions, etc. Those are tangible, real savings to name just a very limited few.

You starting to see what telepresence can do that video conferencing can’t? We hope you see what we’re seeing! Telepresence – its time has arrived!

Check out the video thread in Section 8 of the Telepresence Forum where you can watch some Telepresence YouTube videos! If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video must be worth a million!

Ride on the "Next Plane of Existence" TM

Downers Grove, IL (PRWEB) August 15, 2007 -- Sentinel Technologies has done it again. For the fouth straight year, the Downers Grove-based technology solutions provider has achieved the highest distinction a partner can obtain within the Cisco channel partner program: Customer Satisfaction Excellence.

"It's always nice to know that hard work pays off," said Dennis Hoelzer, President and CEO of Sentinel. "We expect positive results in every facet of our business; from strategy to implementation. We take great pride in integrating Cisco technologies and providing the kind of top-tier solutions our customers have grown to expect from Sentinel, and to be recognized for our efforts is extremely rewarding."

Cisco's Customer Satisfaction Excellence assessment is based upon the customer satisfaction results captured in the Cisco Partner Access Online tool (www.cisco.com/go/pal). Each quarter, Cisco acknowledges Certified Partners that have the highest customer satisfaction distinction within each geographic region. A star is placed next to those partners that have received this distinction. Customers, Cisco personnel and partners are then able to identify those partners as having achieved outstanding customer satisfaction as part of Cisco's worldwide assessment process.

"Stars are always nice, we love to see stars next to our company name," say Brian Osborne, EVP of Sales & Marketing for Sentinel, "but what this distinction really exemplifies is the essence of our business; consistently meeting the highest level of productivity and customer sastisfaction that not only our customers expect from us, but we expect from ourselves. That said, we're extremely proud and appreciative of the fact that that Cisco continues to acknowledge and reward us for our on-going hard work and dedication to serving our customers."

For more information on Cisco Channel Customer Satisfaction Excellence, please visit: www.cisco.com/go/pal

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