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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Coming from an organization that competes directly against the likes of Cisco and Microsoft collaboration suites, the Spark Board is very appealing to me in terms of functionality
and capabilities and my understanding is the price point is far more reasonable than the Microsoft Hub solution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Our org adopted Slack pretty early on, so Spark has some room to improve in terms of UI, but the idea of your notes and communication stream existing into perpetuity without
a break in continuity is going to be pretty valuable in the enterprise for business users, IMO.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Anthony Holloway<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 25, 2017 12:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Heim, Dennis <Dennis.Heim@wwt.com>; Matt Slaga (Americas) <matt.slaga@dimensiondata.com>; Brian Meade <bmeade90@vt.edu>; cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] Surface Board<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"Everyone wants to say their touch panel is special and is going to change the world."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In addition to your statement, I also dislike how companies will manufacture demand out of thin air.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The whole Spark Board event was cringe worthy in my opinion; with their over-the-top showmanship, and pretend first to market smugness.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:08 AM Heim, Dennis <<a href="mailto:Dennis.Heim@wwt.com">Dennis.Heim@wwt.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span class="gmailmsg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Everyone wants to say their touch panel is special and is going to change the
world. The fact is touch is quickly becoming a commodity. It is all about the application that you put on top of it. I am not sure on the Surface Hub and Spark Board, but I doubt the OEM is actually manufacturing the touch panel itself. We do know that the
Spark board is leveraging a computer from Nvidia providing the compute and GPU capabilities.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span class="gmailmsg"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b></span><span class="gmailmsg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
cisco-voip [mailto:<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Matt Slaga (Americas)</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
<span class="gmailmsg"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 25, 2017 10:44 AM</span><br>
<span class="gmailmsg"><b>To:</b> Brian Meade <<a href="mailto:bmeade90@vt.edu" target="_blank">bmeade90@vt.edu</a>>;
<a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="gmailmsg"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] Surface Board</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span class="gmailmsg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Nice Freudian slip
</span></span><span class="gmailmsg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif">😊</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span class="gmailmsg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span class="gmailmsg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Seems it is based on the existing Surface Hub.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span class="gmailmsg"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b></span><span class="gmailmsg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
cisco-voip [<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Brian Meade</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
<span class="gmailmsg"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 24, 2017 7:00 PM</span><br>
<span class="gmailmsg"><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">
cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a></span><br>
<span class="gmailmsg"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] Surface Board</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="gmailmsg1">Correction, Spark Board!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmailmsg1">Thanks Charles!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Jan 24, 2017 5:51 PM, "Brian Meade" <<a href="mailto:bmeade90@vt.edu" target="_blank">bmeade90@vt.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Looks like this thing is finally out- <span class="gmailmsg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collaboration-endpoints/spark-board/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collaboration-endpoints/spark-board/index.html</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Definitely looks like a game-changer in this space assuming you can get everyone using Spark.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="gmailmsg"><span style="color:white">itevomcid</span></span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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