Companies are being pressured to travel less, hold productive meetings, and deliver results.   Many times the “simple” answer is to host a conference or video call to eliminate the travel and reduce the time out of the office to deliver quicker.   Depending on the number of locations, presentations, and audience, sometimes you leave the meeting stating, “We should have hosted that meeting in-person.”

In addition to trying to create an in-person experience, our customers are demanding a wide range of collaborative tools that allow them to conduct meetings without boundaries.  We launched our Telepresence offer with Teliris to meet this demand and to deliver a true-to-life experience.

Below is a video overview of the benefits of the Global Crossing Telepresence with Teliris solution.

• Cutting-edge collaboration tools that allow people to conduct meetings as if in the same room
• Realistic interoperability for Telepresence, videoconferencing or unified communications (UC) systems, creating a seamless experience possible across all solutions
• The ability to tie together any system into the premier Telepresence exchange for flexible, secure, high quality intra- and inter-company connectivity
• On-going support across all solutions for maximum reliability and availability
• Affordably to far-reaching locations anywhere in the world

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Companies everywhere are working hard to be “green” – or at least portray themselves that way. This may be a cost savings measure, driven by regulation (e.g. Kyoto compliance), or a pure marketing strategy. The green imperative has come to telecom as well. Current Analysis  has a report tracking Green Market Developments, and computer makers are now competing on power consumption as a critical metric. Cisco has announced an “Energy Wise” program to monitor and control power consumption. The ITU-T has issued recommendations to standardize carbon footprint measurement. But I think these initiatives miss the big picture. Unlike most other industries, telecom can reduce total energy consumption and green house gas (GHG) emissions by selling more of our product. Read more and comment...