Tata Communications Offers Cisco TelePresence Rooms

Tata Communications, India’s leading communications company, will offer its telepresence rooms for public use in the United States and United Kingdom, linking to additional public rooms in Mumbai, Bangalore, and Chennai in India. The pay-per-use public rooms will be available in Taj Hotels and business centers around the world. The service will be provided through collaboration with Cisco. 

The new service, according to Tata Communications, will allow companies and individuals to use Cisco TelePresence for one-off meetings. 

The company is working with Cisco, Taj Hotels owner, the Indian Hotels Company Limited, and the Confederation of India Industry (CII) to offer public telepresence facilities which are available for rent on an hourly basis.  

The first phase of public rooms was launched in India in July at the Taj Hotels in Mumbai and Bangalore, and CII offices in Bangalore and Chennai. Tata plans to make 100 rooms available globally by the end of 2009. 

The public room offering creates a larger network of interconnected rooms and expands the telepresence market to small and mid-sized businesses. Tata Communications' managed service offers a concierge service that handles reservations, scheduling, customer support, monitoring, management, reporting and billing capabilities.  

Tata Communications plans to open additional rooms in Hyderabad, Gurgaon, and New York later this year, with a more extensive global rollout of 100 rooms planned to be deployed by 2009. 

Tata Communications belongs to $62.5 billion Tata Group.

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