After a couple of years of not being at ISE, Cisco is back and early indications are that the company will return in 2014. It had exhibited in the past under the Tandberg logo but, after it purchased the company back in 2009, didn’t attend ISE in 2011 or 2012. But as its ProAV guru Paul Depperschmidt told me last week in a video interview, Cisco’s here to stay and looking to not only help the industry with videoconferencing, but a standards initiative to help improve the quality of ProAV systems overall.

I caught up with Paul last night at the ISE opening reception, and here’s what he had to say about Cisco’s presence this year and what it has planned for the future: