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Cisco Application Extension Platform: IP Broadcast
Improves Organizational Communication
Improves Organizational Communication
Introduction
Schools, hospitals, businesses, and government entities all recognize the criticality of timely and
accurate communications in their organizations. Miscommunication and delayed announcements
can affect productivity -- and potentially safety. Communications must meet accuracy and
timeliness standards even when the recipient is located at a remote location or branch office, as
staff increasingly tends to be. And given the volumes of email that must be managed, important
messages can easily be overlooked or ignored, mandating the need for a diverse set of
communications methods to ensure receipt of important messages.
Industry Trends
Numerous industry trends influence organizational communications. With technology facilitating
virtual workplaces and geographical independence, the number of remote locations is growing 11
percent every year. In fact, U.S. government statistics based on U.S. Office of Personnel
Management (OPM) reports indicate that 84 percent of government personnel work away from the
campus location. With this proliferation, and the pressing need to decrease operating expenses,
there is now a trend toward centralization and "thin" remote locations. But because an increasing
number of decision makers are remote, centralization must be achieved without compromising
branch-office performance or availability.
The wide adoption of IP communications has resulted in many innovations. Organizations need to
innovate and adapt to remain competitive and deliver advanced services available only with a
voice-over-IP (VoIP) foundation, but they also need to maintain and enhance traditional
communication services.
Cisco and Singlewire: Location-Independent IP Broadcast
Cisco continues to expand the value of the integrated services router and the breadth of functions
it delivers with the Cisco
®
Application Extension Platform (AXP), a network integrated services
platform. Cisco AXP can help your organization host and deploy advanced applications, such as
Singlewire
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Software’s InformaCast, onto your Cisco integrated services router. With the
Singlewire InformaCast solution, your organization can reduce network complexity while saving on
power and valuable space.