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Telepresence: An exciting new solution raising some very old concerns

While telepresence solutions have been around since 1999 or even earlier, the telepresence industry really cleared the launch pad in 2006 when HP and Cisco entered the market, creating much fanfare, huge amounts of publicity and piquing the interest of senior level executives. And while some marketing materials would lead you to believe that telepresence is not videoconferencing, in reality telepresence is simply the Rolls Royce of videoconferencing.