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Hannover Re Picks Tata For Telepresence
Hannover Re, a Hannover, Germany-based reinsurance company, has selected Mumbai, India’s Tata Communications to run its telepresence facilities.
Tata will roll out Cisco Telepresence high-definition collaboration systems to Hannover offices in 16 countries. The contract covers deployment and installation of rooms, maintenance and management and concierge services for scheduling and reservations.
“What convinced us is the option to integrate our internal telepresence network into the general telepresence infrastructure provided by Tata Communications,” Hartmut Fuchs, CIO and managing director of information and technology for Hannover Re, says in a statement. “We expect that this will allow us to extend Telepresence based communication to business partners in a second phase.”
Tata Communications' telepresence services include managed private Cisco telepresence rooms, public telepresence rooms that can be rented by the hour, and the ability for these private and public rooms to connect with each other. Its open exchange capability means that coverage can be extend to any public telepresence rooms that Hannover Re chooses to use in the future, catering to external users such as customers, prospects and partners.
Hannover Re US named David Wheat CFO earlier this year.
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