Tata Communications Ltd., together with nine global telecom leaders, Tuesday announced the launch of Global Meeting Alliance, an open ecosystem of leading telecom providers that have aligned to interconnect their respective business video communities.
Launch members include Safaricom in Africa, Telstra in Australia, Etisalat, Qtel and Mobily in the Middle East, Neotel in South Africa and Sprint, Glowpoint and TELUS in North America.
The launch represents the largest functioning global collaboration between service providers in business video services.
The Global Meeting Alliance network allows any service provider to connect to enterprises and institutions on all major continents, irrespective of service provider, following a similar business model to the airline alliance networks.
Leveraging Tata Communication's industry-leading number of inter-carrier agreements, customers of the Global Meeting Alliance members now have access to an international Telepresence network of third party video endpoints, as well as the largest global public Telepresence room network consisting of 40 public Telepresence suites in 20 countries.
In addition, the community will engage in a collaborative approach to solve shared-industry challenges with the central objectives of making business video available globally, simple to connect and affordable for all.
The Global Meeting Alliance will simplify the launch and operation of business video worldwide, making it more affordable and enabling service providers to optimize their regional networks to interconnect with a global network and conferencing infrastructure maintained by the Global Meeting Alliance operator.
At the BSE, Tata Communications shares are being traded at Rs.226.85, up by 2.18 percent from the previous close.
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