Bharti airtel using Polycom's RealPresence

Bharti airtel is using Polycom's RealPresence platform to deliver video-as-a-service (VaaS) solutions to SMBs and enterprises throughout India.

The RealPresence Cloud solutions comprise of a fully managed multipoint video service which supports a multitude of connectivity options between standards-based room, mobile, PC, and web-based endpoints, as well as Microsoft Lync 2010, IBM Sametime, and endpoints supporting the non-standard TIP protocol.

The solution is powered by Polycom RealPresence Platform, and provides the carrier-grade scalability, reliability, availability, and security required for service providers to offer VaaS to SMBs and enterprises.

It is designed to accelerate the penetration and adoption of Polycom video collaboration solutions among SMBs (small to medium sized businesses) and enterprises who want either a hybrid solution of both premises-based video collaboration solutions and video on demand, or a pure VaaS solution.

The RealPresence cloud solutions provide a different offering for airtel and are driving further adoption of video collaboration throughout India.

Polycom has also said that China Unicom, a Chinese state owned telecom operator has created one of the largest video clouds in the world, powered by the RealPresence Platform, which enables the delivery of VaaS to more than 10,000 business and government organizations throughout China.

The RealPresence Platform provides the scalability, reliability, and interoperability that enables the Chinese operator's video cloud to interconnect approximately 100,000 endpoints (and growing) from 10 different vendors.

''Service providers are critical partners to drive video collaboration growth through VaaS offerings, which will dramatically lower the up-front investment for SMBs and enterprises, enabling them to reap the benefits of video collaboration,'' said Andy Miller, President and CEO, Polycom.