Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Tata Communications and Cisco announced a mutual collaboration to set up Telepresence rooms at four of its key offices in New Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore and CII Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, Hyderabad. An agreement was signed at CII's National Conference and Annual Session 2008, in the presence of the Honorable Finance Minister, Mr. P.Chidambaram, Mr.Sunil Bharti Mittal, President, CII, Mr KV Kamath, Vice President CII, apart from other dignitaries in CII's IVth Plenary Session with the Finance Minister. The agreement was signed by Mr.Subodh Bhargava, Chairman, Tata Communications, General (Rtd.) S.S.Mehta, Director General, CII & Mr. Naresh Wadhwa, President & Country Manager, Cisco Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Cisco will provide the TelePresence equipment, while Tata Communications' will provide the connectivity services that will link the four CII sites. This will be a major facility for CII members which will be made available on a 'pay-per-use' basis. The Cisco TelePresence rooms at the CII facilities will be connected to Tata Communications' planned international network of rooms in premier locations worldwide, enabling cost-effective and high definition video conference meetings for Indian enterprises with their partners in India and overseas, seamlessly. TelePresence is an innovative realistic virtual meeting solution that creates unique, "in-person" experiences allowing real-time, face-to-face communication over a converged IP network. It delivers life-size images, ultra-high-definition video, spatial audio and a specially designed environment to create a "room within a room" meeting space, thereby enabling effective global business and increased productivity while allowing for significant savings in travel time and costs.

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