Tata Communications has announced a ground breaking partnership with BT – This is the first Telepresence Inter-Carrier Interconnect announcement in the industry realizing interconnection between two major Telepresence providers’ Exchanges. Tata Communications continues to be one of the leaders in the Telepresence industry with innovation and visionary strategic moves.

This partnership will :

1. Extend inter-connectivity to BT and Tata Communications’ respective customer communities, enabling connections between any Cisco TelePresence room on either network
2. Enable BT’s customers to connect to Tata Communications’ Global network of Public Telepresence Rooms and therefore collaborate with their wider business ecosystem

Press release : http://www.tatacommunications.com/news/release-view.asp?d=20100616-tatacommunications-and-bt

Analyst firm Ovum publishing this statement in the 17 June edition of their newsletter Straight Talk : “While we don’t expect international video exchange to be dominated by any single provider, Tata’s early market entry will give it the opportunity to attract more partners to its own alliance”