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Tata Comm Partners With Starwood Hotels
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The agreement will see Tata Communications' deploy public Cisco TelePresence rooms at 10 new facilities in Starwood hotels.
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Thursday, July 02, 2009:
Tata Communications and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. have partnered to roll out public telepresence rooms in hotels worldwide.
The agreement will increase Tata Communications’ network of public Cisco TelePresence rooms with 10 new facilities opening in Starwood hotels by the end of 2009.
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The first telepresence suites are planned for Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers, Sheraton on the Park in Sydney, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, The Westin Los Angeles Airport and W Chicago-City Center.
Looking ahead, Starwood anticipates expanding the offering to hotels in key international business markets like Brussels, Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo. Tata Communications Telepresence Service will provide Starwood and its guests an "in person" meeting experience with participants in rooms around the world.
“We believe that public telepresence rooms are the key to increasing the accessibility of telepresence beyond major company offices to their wider ecosystem of users - customers, suppliers, remote workers and business partners. Using managed telepresence services is ‘better than being there’ and helps companies hold more productive meetings without incurring travel and time costs. More team members can participate in meetings and collaborate around the world,” said John Landau, senior vice president, global managed services, Tata Communications.
“We intend to make telepresence available to as many users as possible with our global network of public telepresence rooms and our suite of managed telepresence networks services for businesses. Our partnership with Starwood is a major step towards making this vision a reality,” added Landau.
Christie Hicks, senior vice president, global sales, Starwood, added, “The partnership with Tata Communications is yet another opportunity for us to bring innovative, cutting-edge technology to our properties and add true value for our business and conference facilities’ guests.”
Cisco TelePresence is claimed to provide life-like, high definition, conferencing facilities with superior audio, video and environmental qualities allowing participants to meet their colleagues, customers and business partners across a virtual table. The public facility offers users who do not have telepresence rooms in their companies, access to this technology at an affordable per hour rental rate.
Tata Communications has several operational public rooms in India (Mumbai, Bengaluru (x2), Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi and Gurgaon), UK (London) and USA (Boston), and has recently announced an agreement to manage a public room in Manila for PLDT in the Philippines.
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