The Global Meeting Exchange, launched by Tata Communications,
will support meetings between any connected private and public
Cisco TelePresence rooms. The firm is in discussion with a number
of regional carriers to collaborate on extending the Global Meeting
Exchange into geographically diverse markets. As a result, any
business with a connection to the Global Meeting Exchange will have
access to set up Cisco TelePresence virtual meetings with their
ecosystem of users, achieving a very high level of collaboration
without major costs and disruptions of international travel.
“The Global Meeting Exchange builds upon our current
Managed telepresence private network and Public Room services;
Tata’s major national network assets in India, South Africa,
and later this year in China; and our inter-carrier relationships
developed as a leading carrier of international voice calls and one
of the largest inter-carrier providers of Internet peering. Our B2B
cooperation with Cisco and partner carriers will bring a new level
of value demanded by Cisco TelePresence users,” said John
Landau, senior vice-president Global Managed Services, Tata
Communications.
Telepresence services include managed private Cisco TelePresence
rooms, public TelePresence rooms that can be rented by the hour,
and the ability for these private and public rooms to connect with
each other. To reliably and cost-effectively support global
business to business (B2B) connectivity, Tata’s Global
Meeting Exchange will have major telepresence service points of
presence (PoPs) in Mumbai, New York, and London and minor points of
presence co-resident in Tata’s global MPLS PoPs in major
cities around the world. Customer connections will be supported at
any of many easily reached PoPs and this globally dispersed PoP
distribution will ensure optimum performance with short connection
paths.