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Cisco Adds New Devices, Pricing, and Features To Webex

Cisco is aiming to keep up with the torrid pace of the videoconferencing industry with new devices, features and pricing plans for Webex.

April 2, 2021 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

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The videoconferencing industry quickly became competitive in 2020, with Zoom, Microsoft Teams and others bursting onto the scene and threatening to take market share away from companies like Cisco and its unified communications platform Webex, which has long been a mainstay in the enterprise meeting room.

Now, it seems that Cisco is trying to regain some of that market share and spotlight with new features in Webex, and now, new pricing plans for its integrated hardware.

According to a Cisco blog, the company is rolling out new cloud pricing for Webex Desk and Room devices, with some prices reduced by 50%.

Related: Cisco Announces People Insights Feature In Webex

Now, new or existing customers with a Webex meetings or calling Enterprise Agreement (EA) will qualify for substantial discounts on select Webex devices.

With a Webex EA, the Cisco Suggested Resale Price of the Webex Desk Pro will be $2,499, the recently announced Webex Desk will be $1,249, and the reimagined hotdesk with the Webex Desk Hub bundled with the Webex Desk Camera will be $699, according to Cisco.

Here’s a look at some other new Webex features recently announced by Cisco:

  • A new remote to control the camera on Room USB devices.
  • Environmental sensors, capacity alerts, touchless calls and meeting joins.
  • People Insights, a new feature designed to deliver insights on the wellbeing of the user, their team and organization. Available this summer.
  • People Focus, a feature that can help users read the room during a Webex call using artificial intelligence and machine learning to individually reframe people in a meeting room.
  • Real-time translations that help break down language barriers by providing translations for more than 100 languages.
  • Immersive Share, available on Webex Desk Pro devices, that overlays the speaker’s image on top of shared content.
  • Hybrid calling features that merge PBX systems and cloud-calling/
  • Webex Edge, which allows on-premise device users to tap not intelligent cloud features like advanced muting, facial recognition, name labels, host controls and bi-directional whiteboarding.
  • Improvements to Webex Control Hub for administrators.

Those are just some of the many new features Cisco has rolled out for its flagship unified communications and collaboration product, and there will likely be more as several key players jockey for position and market share in the increasingly crowded unified communications market.

For more insight, visit the company’s website or watch keynotes and other sessions from the Cisco Live event this week.

A version of this article originally appeared on our sister site Commercial Integrator. 

Tagged With: Cisco, Unified Communication and Collaboration, Webex

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