Honest 836 Report post Posted July 29, 2008 Tata Communications launches public telepresence facility 29 Jul, 2008, 1649 hrs IST, ET BANGALORE: Tata Communication on Tuesday launched the world's first 'public' telepresence facilities in multiple locations in Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai, offering customers a chance to communicate with each other across the country and borders using CISCO's latest innovative technology. Launching the public telepresence rooms in Taj Hotels in Mumbai and Bangalore and at the offices of CII in Bangalore, and Chennai, Peter Quinlan, Director for Telepresence Managed Services at Tata Communications, said that were plans to launch similar facilities in Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Boston and London by Septemebr 2008, followed by New York. The telepresence rooms set up within Taj Hotels (the first hotel chain worldwide to implement the facility) and CII offices, would enable its members to interact with their counterparts across the country or globe, using telepresence, life-like high definition conferencing facilities, with superior audio, video facilities. Tata Communication would host and manage the network and the centralised infrastructure. It would help in delivery and in remote management as well as technical support and manage the entire stack of services, with CISCO being the technology provider , he said. The setting up of public rooms like those in CII and Taj would enable members use the facility at a price of Rs 20,000 an hour, thereby cutting down drastically on global travel and time lost in travelling, said Peter. From the environment point of view it would cut down on carbon footprint in terms of reducing travel, he said, while talking to reporters in three cities using the technology. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
