Telecom and networking company Cisco has said that the Buenos Aires Provincial Judiciary has chosen its TelePresence technology to optimise legal services.
The Supreme Court of Justice and the Attorney General’s Office had passed a resolution in November 2010 to develop a videoconference system.
Telepresence enables face-to-face collaboration as if people in separate locations are all sitting in the same room together. The technology is will aid the delivery of statements by experts in criminal processes, said Cisco.
The company said that Cisco TelePresence will allow the judiciary to obtain experts’ statements more quickly, speed communications among the ministers of the Supreme Court, and improve the training of the employees at the judiciary.
The Cisco offering consists of 18 Cisco TelePresence System Edge 95 MXP endpoints, room equipment installed in the courts and La Plata, and six Cisco MXP 1700 endpoints, located in the department head offices.
Both the configuration and the IT management are centralised, although each department head has a technical office for local support.
Logicalis, a Cisco Gold Certified Partner, participated in the project.
Supreme Court of Justice of the Buenos Aires Province deputy secretary at the Secretary of Information Technology Lic. Alberto O. Spezzi said during trials it is necessary to obtain statements from experts located in different districts, and they are forced to move from one location to another in order to make their statements.
"Because of the vast area of the province, the experts must travel long distances, resulting in delays. Today, with this new technological implementation we can save the valuable time of experts as well as their travel expenses," O. Spezzi said.
Cisco product sales specialist Carlos Isla said, "Currently the function of technology is to connect the right people at the right time with the correct information. The Cisco TelePresence solutions facilitate this contact, allowing individuals to collaborate from any place with the control, security policies and flexibility that they need."
