AT&T and BT brings inter-provider telepresence

BANGALORE, INDIA: AT&T and BT announced today the commercial availability of the industry’s first inter-provider exchange-to-exchange telepresence meeting capability. The new connection between AT&T and BT telepresence exchanges allows their business customers to schedule telepresence meetings and to connect their telepresence endpoints seamlessly.

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A press release said that the AT&T and BT customers can now meet “face to face” from their Cisco TelePresence endpoints with an expanded network of customers and suppliers. Last summer, customers piloted this capability and successfully conducted numerous meetings between AT&T and BT telepresence locations.

The release adds that AT&T and BT telepresence customers will enjoy a consistent service experience when using this new feature of their existing telepresence service.  For example, AT&T customers may schedule business-to-business meetings involving a BT endpoint using the AT&T Telepresence Solution scheduling portal in the same way they schedule business-to-business meetings today, and BT’s telepresence customers will be able to do the same on BT’s scheduling portal.

Customers will continue to rely on their respective service providers as a single point of contact for meeting support, assistance, and billing. Additionally, key features such as encrypted connections will be available and can be established for highly sensitive meetings.