Cisco frames the booth tour around “AI-powered workspaces” as a stack that starts with collaboration endpoints but quickly expands into building telemetry and operational analytics, so IT and facilities can make data-driven decisions on space usage, comfort, and energy. The core idea is to reduce friction for hybrid work while keeping deployments platform-flexible (Webex native, or re-registered for Microsoft Teams, while still being able to join Zoom and Google Meet). https://www.webex.com/us/en/devices/desk-series/cisco-desk-pro.html
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On the collaboration side, the Desk Pro Gen 2 is positioned as more than an executive desktop: with a wide-angle 4K camera and touch workflow for whiteboarding and control, it can drop into a small huddle room as an all-in-one endpoint, with tighter framing and digital pan/tilt/crop for cleaner participant views in a compact room.
For larger spaces, the tour highlights “distance zero” meeting design using side cameras to give a cross-table perspective when discussion flows laterally, so remote participants see natural eye-lines instead of a single front-wall shot. Audio is treated as a sensor array too, with the ceiling beamforming mic concept (64 mic elements forming 8 adaptive beams, with echo handling per beam) to keep pickup stable even when the active speaker is several meters away in a busy space.
The workplace layer is where Cisco connects collaboration hardware to smart-building signals: Room Navigator-style touch panels surface temperature, humidity and air-quality context where people actually sit, while the video system can add people-count and presence data. That gets blended with network indicators like Wi-Fi association trends for occupancy, then extended with purpose-built sensors like the Meraki MT15 for CO2 and air-quality metrics that affect focus and comfort in real workdays.
Splunk is presented as the unifying data platform for security, observability, and facilities dashboards, including edge reduction via Splunk Edge Hub so raw sensor chatter becomes normalized, usable time-series before it hits the cloud. The tour also nods to Power over Ethernet as a physical infrastructure strategy (up to 90 W on a single cable) for lighting, desk power, and automation triggers, making reconfiguration easier and shifting more of the workplace into software-defined control for work.
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