Offering the Widest Reach for Global Business-To-Business Virtual Meetings
The close of last quarter marked a successful two year anniversary for Tata Communications in the Telepresence space. As the first service provider to launch public room Telepresence services back in 2008, the company has continued to bring the benefits and experience of high definition, virtual collaboration to businesses the world over.
Representing the largest global network of public Telepresence rooms, Tata Communications is present in 21 major cities across five continents; giving users the ability to connect with an extensive business ecosystem of public and private rooms through its network and partner networks that span 35 countries.
To further demonstrate the company’s leadership in both public and private Telepresence, today marks two significant customer announcements for Tata Communications:
- PSA Peugeot Citroen, private Telepresence rooms: Europe’s second largest automaker becomes the first car manufacturer to use the high definition, virtual collaboration tool to connect its research and development facility with its executive offices around the world, reducing time for product development through better collaboration.
Five rooms installed across three locations: France (3), Brazil and China.
http://www.tatacommunications.com/news/release-view.asp?d=TataCommunicationsselectedbyPSAPeugeotCitroen - Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, public Telepresence rooms: The Le Méridien Etoile, Le Méridien Brussels, Le Méridien Parkhotel Frankfurt (Nov opening) and the Le Méridien Munich will become the first of Starwood’s European properties to provide Telepresence virtual meeting facilities to its customers, responding to increased demand from the next generation of business travelers.
With the addition of the four new European rooms, Starwood now have a total of eight public Telepresence rooms available globally across seven locations: Germany (2), France, Canada, USA, Australia and Kuwait.
http://www.tatacommunications.com/news/release-view.asp?d=FourStarwoodHotelsinEuropetoDebutTelepresence
Key milestones from Tata Communications over the last two years include:
- Tata Communications was the world’s first communications provider to offer public Telepresence rooms, giving customers the benefit of virtual conference technology at a cost effective, pay-per-use, hourly rate
- Tata Communications currently has the largest global network of public Telepresence rooms and is present in 21 major cities across five continents – totalling 22 rooms, spanning 12 countries.
- This is possible due to:
- a. Global Meeting Exchange:
* Tata Communications offers the world’s first truly global Business-to-Business inter-connection services – enabling business-to-business meetings between any public rooms or customer-owned private rooms on Tata Communications’ services - b. Intercarrier Exchange:
* Tata Communications was the world’s first communication provider to offer Intercarrier Telepresence
* The Intercarrier Exchange connects rooms on the networks of Tata Communications’ Inter-Exchange partners, BT and Telefonica, and the National Lamda Rail network, which links leading US universities - Tata Communications offers the widest range of connections between customers’ private rooms, third-party rooms and public rooms that spans 35 countries
Forward-looking and cautionary statements
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