Source:BS Reporter / Mumbai March 18, 2010, 0:57 IST
Reliance Communications announced today that it
was partnering with Polycom, a global leader in
tele-presence and video conferencing services.
This partnership would introduce high-resolution
wireless video-conferencing services, to be marketed
by Reliance Webstore, the retail arm of the
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group.
The service would be commercially rolled out in over 40 cities
immediately and reach 60 cities in four months.
Reliance Webstore plans to expand it to 100 cities
by the end of the year.
Reliance Webstore already sells wired video conferencing
services to over 1,500 companies. It does so through
a network of 200 video conferencing suites.
Polycom’s technology, coupled with its broadband
services, reduces the cost of their wireless service.
Reliance plans to extend this service to small and
medium-sized enterprises, as well as individual consumers.
The new offering comes with Polycom’s QDX6000 video
conferencing system, with dedicated virtual private network
connectivity through the Reliance Netconnect Broadband,
with a wireless broadband data card.
The entire equipment comes for Rs 2 lakh and has a connectivity
plan of Rs 1,500 per month for a usage of 10 GB.
On a pay-per-use basis, a managed video conferencing service
costs Rs 1,500 for every half-hour.
“This service will serve small and medium-sized enterprises.
We have brought it down to retail for walk-in customers who need
it for social gatherings and education purposes,” said
Sarup Chowdhary, director and CEO, Reliance Webstore.
Reliance services 200-300 video conferences a day and 20,000 video
conferencing hours a month. It hopes this market would expand with
their new service and expects a revenue upside of Rs 400 crore over five years for Reliance Webstore.
Polycom’s system has been altered to meet the requirements of this low-cost
offering to India. Their system enables CD-quality audio along with high-resolution
video, even at a bandwidth of 256 kbps.
“India ranks among the top eight markets for video conferencing,” says
Hansjoerg Wagner, MD, Polycom Asia Pacific.
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This is great and new for all the business people and others. Wireless Video Conferencing Software can cutout your stress out of many issues and make you collaborate with others very easily from your own place without even a burden of connecting wires... It's a great technology overall.
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