BANGALORE, INDIA: Cisco today launched over 60 products across all categories of its collaboration portfolio and also marked its entry into two new, enterprise social software and hosted email, markets, with an aim to bring the collaborative power of online social communities to businesses. 

Kara Wilson, VP, Marketing, collaboration solutions, Cisco Inc, said: "We are living in the participation age. The future of work is changing and organisations require new collaboration experience to navigate business complexities. Cisco believes that there is a need for better collaboration experience."

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The new products span real-time and asynchronous collaboration applications, and collectively take advantage of the power of video and voice-based communications to help enable natural, person-to-person and business-to-business collaboration across all media and devices.

Today's launch highlights:
Intercompany Cisco TelePresence Directory: Cisco-hosted directory  of organizations and locations with Cisco TelePresence.

Cisco enterprise social software solution: Includes a new social video system which helps enable companies to form secure video communities around user-generated content under enterprise control. 

Minhaj Zia, national sales manager, unified communications, Cisco India and SAARC, said: "The platform acts as a Facebook or a YouTube to be used within enterprises."

Cisco WebEx Mail: Cisco’s hosted email offering, based on the Postpath acquisition, allows IT to move to cloud efficiencies while leveraging their current investment in the Microsoft Outlook client, mobile device support, and browser-independent AJAX web 2.0 access.

Cisco Medianet: Medianet-enabled products deliver better collaborative experiences for end-users across heterogeneous devices, applications and clients. A medianet is an intelligent network optimized for rich media.

Cisco Intercompany Media Engine: New media processing engine solutions offer speech-to-text transcription and provide real-time video transcoding, enabling any content to be shared across the network to any end-point device, including HD interoperability for Cisco TelePresence.