may follow this scenario. We might easily make a phone call in the early morning from our device using our busi- ness office number, but connected to some communications devices in our home office. While we're getting ready to work, the phone call can be transferred to our headset. When we start driving to work, the phone call can pass from home to automobile. When we arrive at the office, the phone call might transfer from the cellular carrier to the corpo- rate WiFi network, and eventually wind up on our computerized workstation in a cubicle. All these things go through growth curves with early adopters and then take off more broadly. It will be a number of years before we achieve ubiquity. Telepresence: the Future of Presence There is a tremendous upsurge in the use of personal video calling. In the future of network-connected homes, there will be an entertainment wall that can be configured into a number of virtual screens and video cameras in every room of the house, for both video calling and security. Cisco Telepresence is a product developed by Cisco that provides high-definition 1080 p video, spatial audio, and a setup designed to link two physically separated rooms SO they resemble a single conference room even though the two rooms might be on opposite sides of the world. Cisco Telepresence creates a live, face-to-face communication experience over the net- work that empowers you to collaborate like never before. Telepresence helps people meet, share content, create high-quality video recordings and events, consult with experts, and deliver powerful personalized services, all using the power of the network for an immer- sive in-person experience. With Cisco Telepresence: Scheduling is easy-no IT support required. Launching a meeting is as simple as making a phone call. People appear life-like and life-size. Chapter 13: Future of Unified Communications 303 In-room controls are intuitive. Collaboration applications are plug and play. Participants can meet in many rooms at once-up to 48 locations in one me