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Short clip: Turner communicates globally with telepresence

Dan Darling, CIO of Turner Broadcasting System, says that the company's most important technology is telepresence. Through teleconferencing, they have been able to build a new facility in Buenos Aires with much more collaboration between the divisions' saving money and speeding up the process.

>>What emerging technologies do you see as most important to TBS as a whole right now?

>>As a business, collaboration, innovation is two of the hallmarks that we are constantly focused on. So when you look at telepresence, one of the new rooms we just put in it basically allows us full duplex of audio, it allows us to really experience and like we're in the room with someone else. I think those are key elements in driving some of our success. Again, as we think about diverse thoughts of our ideas around the world and bringing those back and how those change our products again, I think we need these type of environments to bring people together world wide to really talk about things and it's been a great collaboration tool.

>>What were the results from some of that telepresence roll out?

>>One of the things is the fact that we're able to articulate as we build facilities world wide, our engineering group here in Atlanta and the one in Buenos Aires we're able to collaborate in a much more detailed style through telepresence, through HD video conference and really did a great job of building that facility. But again, a lot of the share that happens within Turner throughout our engineering and our technology groups is just that. I mean we share, we don't silo divisions and say look at, you're on this, are you going to build this on your own? We take past lessons learned and we share those and we share the newest technologies so again, I think collaboration is key to whatever we do here at Turner.

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