MUMBAI -- Tata Communications today announces that it has been chosen by German reinsurance company, Hannover Re, to deploy and run its telepresence facilities, serving the group’s internal teams in 18 locations across 16 countries worldwide.

Tata Communications will roll out the Cisco Telepresence high-definition immersive video collaboration systems to help employees based in Europe, North America, Asia, Middle East and Africa collaborate with each other on a daily basis.

Under this agreement, Tata Communications will provide Hannover Re with a solution that includes deployment and installation of rooms, maintenance, management and concierge service for scheduling and reservations, the world's first public rooms, the world's first open global telepresence exchange as well as the Cisco-certified telepresence network. 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.

“What convinced us is the option to integrate our internal telepresence network into the general telepresence infrastructure provided by Tata Communications. We expect that this will allow us to extend telepresence based communication to business partners in a second phase,” says Hartmut Fuchs, Hannover Re, CIO and Managing Director, Information and Technology.

Tata Communications Ltd.