For this week only, among the Golf, greenery and esteemed history of the Wentworth course sits a totally modern and urban phenomenon - The Cisco & Laing Internet Home. In partnership with Laing Homes, Cisco Systems has created a house full of all the technology available to not only make our everyday lives easier but improve efficiency in everything we do.
The Internet home represents the next step forward in what Cisco refers to as empowering the internet generation. It’s equipped with Cisco Aironet wireless technology which reduces the cost of having to hardwire properties, while at the same time giving owners tremendous flexibility to use portable devices like laptops, printers and Portable Digital Assistants, wherever they like – even outside in the garden.
This solution is key to the whole concept of the Internet home. Hosted on the fridge there is a wireless and portable web where you can easily leave and read messages, refer to the calendar and address book and access email. So as your supplies run low you can keep a running 'shopping list' and order through your supermarket website for your shopping to be delivered to your door. But the tablet doesn't have to stay there. You can take it with you wherever you go in the house.
Also accessible through the wireless web tablet is Whirlpool's Homelife @ssist@nt solution providing a wide and original online range of information from leading companies partnering with Whirlpool to help you in all aspects of fabric care and washing, cooking, preserving food and other household topics.
Need to know how to remove a difficult stain from a delicate fabric? Homelife @ssist@nt can help with information provided by Procter and Gamble. Looking for a recipe to fit the ingredients you have in the fridge? Homelife @ssist@nt can find something quick to fit the bill.
Gone are the days of having to leave the house to find a photo booth for that much needed visa/passport or id card photo when completing such paperwork. With the HP Jornada Personal Assistant in your home you can take an instant picture with the digital camera that attaches to it and then transmit the image wirelessly to the HP photosmart 1315 printer. With a wireless LAN card inserted into the HP Jornada it can also connect wirelessly to the internet in your home, office or student campus if a Cisco Wireless LAN system is installed.
From a business perspective the Cisco Wireless system can access a corporate network regardless of location and add wireless connectivity to public areas or meeting rooms for highly mobile workforces. The Cisco IP/VC
videoconferencing solutions eliminate the barriers of time, distance and resources permitting people around the world to function as if they were in the same room.
IP telephony is central to Cisco's Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data (AVVID). It uses an IP data network to provide company wide voice communications and among the many advantages of the convergence of data voice and video communications are the applications available to users. Directory and web services are available on the telephone screen; unified messaging means that emails can be accessed via a telephone or voice mails through email, and the implementation of a complete contact centre enables customers to contact an organization via the Web, telephony, email, fax and web forms etc.
