Tata Communications and BT Join Forces to Extend Telepresence Connectivity

Tata Communications and BT today announced an agreement today to allow customers on either of their existing video exchanges to establish conferences with customers on the other's video exchange.

This represents a major step towards open, ubiquitous connectivity between Telepresence endpoints, regardless of their parent network.

Using the intercompany service that both organizations are launching, any Cisco TelePresence customer of BT's Global Video Exchange or Tata Communications' Global Meeting Exchange can invite clients of the other service provider to join them in multipoint Telepresence meetings. The meetings can be hosted on either the Tata Communications or the BT Telepresence Exchange.

Both companies are going to be offering trials to current customers across both exchanges.

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Whygos Take: It had to start somewhere and who better than TATA & BT. They both have CISCO driven exchanges, and like most carriers Telepresence customers, they want access to public rooms so they don't have to pay the price tag of buying more Telepresence equipment. The big positive is this is the first foot foward from the carriers to interconnect which is great news.