Telstra, Tata join Global Meeting Alliance

Telecommunication companies, Telstra and Tata Communications, have signed up to the Global Meeting Alliance, a network which will allow its clients to hold international video meetings, irrespective of participating service providers.

Customers of these companies have access to an international telepresence network of third party video endpoints, as so then as 40 public telepresence suites in 20 countries.

To participate in global meetings, the customer uses a centralised scheduling system to book business video conferences. The service support sessions use high definition video as so then as Cisco, Tandberg and Polycom devices.

Telstra data IP network application and services executive director, Philip Jones, said in a statement that telepresence and business video services are becoming increasingly popular with Australian organisations as they offer productivity and cost benefits.

Member of the Open Visual Communication Consortium

Telstra is as well a member of the Open Visual Communication Consortium, an organisation working to establish a multi-network, multi-vendor environment, delivering consistent video conferencing.