Magyar Telekom Puts Collaboration Within Reach of Business Cisco TelePresence and Cisco WebEx Online Meetings Offered as Managed Services
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Magyar Telekom is offering Cisco TelePresence : http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns669/networking_solutions_solution_segment_home.html (TM) as a managed service in three
Central and Eastern European countries: Hungary, Macedonia and Montenegro.
Customers can use Cisco TelePresence for virtual meetings internally, as
well as for intercompany meetings with partners, customers and suppliers.
Over the next several months, Magyar Telekom is planning to extend this
service to additional countries in the region.
Additionally, Magyar Telekom offers Cisco WebEx(TM) online meetings as part
of its Virtualoso managed services package, designed for small and
medium-sized businesses.
Key Facts / Highlights:
- The Cisco TelePresence experience combines innovative real-time video,
audio and interactive technologies to give people a wide variety of
face-to-face collaboration experiences. Users feel as though they are
sitting in the same room even when the distance between them is hundreds or
thousands of kilometers. - For managed intercompany Cisco TelePresence services, Magyar Telekom is
deploying Cisco TelePresence systems at the customers' premises and
provides the network connectivity with a dedicated virtual private network
(VPN) between the locations. The service is running on Magyar Telekom's
quality of service (QOS)-enabled, high security Multiprotocol Label
Switching (MPLS) infrastructure. - Customers can choose from a variety of offerings in the Cisco
TelePresence product portfolio to meet the needs of their organization,
from a personal Cisco TelePresence system that can sit on a desk to a large
virtual meeting room that can seat up to 18 people. New systems are also
available for multipurpose conference rooms, reducing the need to set aside
a dedicated conference room. Since this is a managed service, customers pay
a monthly fee to Magyar Telekom, thus saving on initial capital
expenditures. - Intercompany services connect calls from a Cisco TelePresence room on
one corporate network to another Cisco TelePresence room on a different
company's network through a secure connection from the service provider. To
enable service providers to offer intercompany Cisco TelePresence
commercial services, Cisco delivers a fully validated reference
architecture that facilitates calls between multiple enterprise networks to
traverse the service provider network with no comingling of routes,
addresses or data. - For small and medium-sized businesses, Magyar Telekom is offering
Virtualoso managed services, a set of cost-efficient and highly secure
communication solutions. Virtualoso Meeting is based on Cisco WebEx, which
enables meeting participants to simultaneously share files, carry out a
telephone conference through a Magyar Telekom integrated audio bridge,
connect via video, exchange chat messages, hold Web polls, and do all this
in a highly secure online environment. Meetings can be accessed not only
from inside the company but also by outside partners, vendors and
customers, without the need to purchase additional hardware or software or
set any specific configurations. The system can be used for training and
education purposes, for help desk and customer service activities, as well
as for online conferences. Customers are supported by a 24x7
service. - KFKI, a subsidiary of Magyar Telekom and a Cisco Gold Certified
Partner, as well as a Cisco TelePresence Advanced Technology Provider in
Hungary, designed the managed service offering and provides system
integration as well as the Cisco TelePresence meeting reservation software
component.
Supporting Quotes:
- Istvan Papp, chief operating officer of Magyar Telekom, head of
Business Services Business Unit (T-Systems)
"A paradigm change is taking place in IT: instead of the purchase of entire
systems, the focus is shifting towards the lease of solutions and
applications. The principal advantage of managed services is that companies
do not need to make upfront investments and can use their innovation budget
to develop and expand their own core activities." - Otto Dalos, client executive, Cisco Hungary
"With supply chains characterizing most of today's economy, communication
and collaboration is becoming a key business function for organizations.
Magyar Telekom was early to respond to this need and is now one of the
first service providers in Central and Eastern Europe to offer a complete
set of intercompany-enabled collaboration solutions for any size company,
be they virtual meetings via Cisco TelePresence or online collaborations
via Cisco WebEx online meetings."
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Supporting resources:
- Cisco Web Site : http://www.cisco.com/
- Read more about Intercompany
collaboration with Global Cisco TelePresence Network : http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2009/prod_090909c.html
About Magyar Telekom
Magyar Telekom is Hungary's principal provider of telecom services. It
provides a full range of telecommunications and infocommunications (ICT)
services including fixed line and mobile telephony, data transmission and
non-voice as well as IT and systems integration services. The business
activities of Magyar Telekom are managed by two business units: Consumer
services (the home-related services brand T-Home and the mobile
communications brand T-Mobile) and Business services (T-Systems brand).
Magyar Telekom is the majority owner of Makedonski Telekom, the leading
fixed line and mobile operator in Macedonia and it holds a majority stake
in Crnogorski Telekom, the leading telecommunications operator in
Montenegro. Magyar Telekom's majority shareholder (59.21%) is MagyarCom
Holding GmbH, fully owned by Deutsche Telekom AG. For further information
visit www.telekom.hu : http://www.telekom.hu .
About Cisco Systems
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms
how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Information about Cisco
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Systems International BV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc.
Cisco, the Cisco logo, Cisco Systems, Cisco TelePresence and Cisco WebEx
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