By Marcus Law
Publication Date: 2026-10-14 11:17:00
For most of the past decade, the office was something organisations fitted out once and then left alone. Brian Stout, SVP of Global Sales for Collaboration and Workplace Experience at Cisco, says that cycle has collapsed. Customers that once built a floor and sat in it for ten years are now reconfiguring spaces every quarter for new projects and teams, and they need data to do it well.
Speaking to UC Today at WebexOne 2026 in Austin, Stout says Cisco’s answer is to sell the workplace as a single platform. Its Intelligent Workplace Experiences proposition brings together secure networking, collaboration devices, Cisco Spaces and ThousandEyes, managed through Cisco Cloud Control.
How Cisco Intelligent Workplace Experiences Serve People, Places and IT
Stout breaks the value down by audience. For employees, the goal is to “earn the commute” with an office experience that works every time, which he sees as the most credible route back from the return-to-office struggles many companies…