Tata Communications (TC) has launched telepresence services, which deliver both private and public Cisco TelePresence rooms to businesses across the world.
Telepresence provides life-like, high definition conferencing facilities with superior audio, video and environmental qualities to provide a viable alternative to face-to-face meetings. Businesses achieve substantial cost savings through reducing travel while increasing productivity.
TC says it lowers costs of implementation of the service for customers by offering managed infrastructure in the network cloud. The service takes care of reservations, scheduling, customer support, monitoring, management, reporting and billing capabilities.
TC is making available Cisco TelePresence services at public rooms that businesses can rent on an hourly basis. Initially rooms have been located at the Taj Hotels and in major business centers around the world including Mumbai, Bangalore, New York, Boston and London.
TC is also collaborating with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) to provide Cisco TelePresence services to Indian businesses with four public rooms at CII offices in New Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, and Hyderabad.
David Molony, Principal Analyst at Ovum, says "equipment costs may still prohibitive for some enterprises, but Tata Communications is bringing a different business case to the table by introducing a hosted service"
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