My team had all our commlinks connected so that any hostile that any of us could see would be outlined on all of our image links. Then we dumped video from our smartlinks and/or cybereyes directly to storage for full backup of a run from all angles - pretty easy to show the Johnson that the job's done by zapping him a few seconds of video from multiple feeds. Call up friends or contacts on the fly, even while talking to someone else, or on the run.
It took some readjustment to thinking from the SR3 rules, but after we got some practice with it, it was fun

And for those worried about essence costs, I was a mage with image link, smart link, and vision mag in my contact lenses, and thermo vision and visual enhancement in the sunglasses I wore over them. And smart earbuds and a subvocal throat mike. So I could do everything my wired friends could do (though sometimes a bit slower), without having any bodily intrusions at all.