Verizon and Airtel Partner to Bring Secure Enterprise-Grade BlueJeans Video Conferencing to India
July 14 2020 - 6:11AM
Bharti Airtel Ltd. (“Airtel”), India’s largest integrated telecom
company, and Verizon, one of the largest communication technology
companies in the world, today announced a strategic alliance to
bring secure, world-class video conferencing solutions to
businesses in India.
As part of this partnership, Airtel will offer
secure enterprise-grade video conferencing solutions under the
brand name - Airtel BlueJeans - to enterprise customers in
India.
BlueJeans, Verizon’s enterprise-grade video
conferencing service, helps people communicate and collaborate
across mobile, desktop, browser and conference rooms and has a
long-standing history of providing simple, reliable and trusted
solutions, while meeting the stringent security needs of banks,
healthcare providers and other organizations.
The offering includes a cloud point of presence
in India enabling low latency and improved quality of service for
India-based customers. The technology will be fully integrated with
Airtel’s network, including its data centers, to ensure that
customers are offered a state of the art, reliable and secure
customer experience. Airtel BlueJeans will offer an integrated
audio solution, giving its customers convenient dial-in options to
join the meetings.
India, along with the rest of the world, is
witnessing a massive surge in demand for enterprise-grade
collaboration tools as Work From Home and virtual meetings become
the new normal. This alliance in India will bring Airtel and
Verizon together to address the need for seamless and secure
business collaboration as organizations move from office-based work
to work from anywhere.
“Companies of all sizes around the world have
seen the requirement for reliable, high-quality video conferencing
services and require trusted partners to ensure the highest level
of security,” said Hans Vestberg, Chief Executive Officer of
Verizon. “We are proud to come together with Airtel to help more
Indian organizations benefit from our world-class communication
product during this work-from-home era and beyond.”
“Airtel has always partnered with the best to
deliver world-class services to its customers,” said Gopal Vittal,
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Bharti Airtel.
“We are delighted to collaborate with Verizon to bring Airtel
BlueJeans to enterprise and SMB customers in India. Airtel
BlueJeans is a highly differentiated video conferencing solution
that sets the benchmark with its high levels of security and ease
of use. We look forward to building a deep partnership with Verizon
to serve the needs of emerging digital
India.”
BlueJeans’ enterprise-level security features
include meeting lock, secure transmission and storage, randomized
meeting IDs, participant passcodes, fraud detection, and a variety
of authentication options. The platform uses open, proven standards
for security as well as the WebRTC and HTML5 standards for
browser-based access, enabling users to participate in meetings and
events without requiring software downloads, a key requirement in
some secure environments.
The agreement initially covers BlueJeans
Meetings, BlueJeans Events, BlueJeans Rooms and the BlueJeans
Gateway for Microsoft Teams.
About Bharti Airtel Limited
Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global
telecommunications company with operations in 18 countries across
Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company
ranks amongst the top 3 mobile service providers globally in terms
of subscribers. In India, the company's product offerings include
wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high speed
home broadband, DTH, enterprise services including national &
international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of
the geographies, it offers wireless services and mobile commerce.
Bharti Airtel had over 423 million customers across its operations
at the end of March 2020. To know more please visit,
www.airtel.com
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