MegaFon: Premium conferences

In the Volga region the MegaFon company with the assistance of Cisco started the service of Premium conference focused on the large geographically distributed companies in September, 2014. Further the given service will be available in all territory of Russia according to the diagram of the operator. Possibilities of video conference and telepresence based on the systems of immersive telepresence Cisco TelePresence and the Cisco Jabber software clients are provided on model of a private or public cloud.

The wide line of the solutions Cisco TelePresence allows to offer different options of use of service:

• remote worker
• head's office
• meeting room
• virtual meeting room of the company.

Such approach allows to reduce costs for system management of a video conferencing (VIDEOCONFERENCING): specialists of MegaFon company carry out all technical work on installation, adjustment and solution maintenance and provide the round-the-clock technical support. Users of service of Premium conference receive already configured platform that allows to avoid capital costs of deployment of VKS network and acquisition of videoconference equipment and data storage. At the same time in the course of use of service the customer can reconfigure the solution proceeding from the requirements, having reduced or having increased VKS system capacities as soon as possible. All infrastructure necessary for use of service of Premium conference is in the data processing centers of MegaFon company ensuring the increased fault tolerance and safety, double reservation of nodes of the platform and a closed channel to the platform in the mobile and fixed networks.

It is as simple to use service of Premium conference how to call by phone. The service has such advantages as:

• the smaller cost of ownership in comparison by purchase of the VKS platform, similar on power;
• the best quality of video;
• wide functionality for joint work;
• the single interface of management on all devices;
• possibility of the remote organization and monitoring of important video meetings;
• high quality of service under the agreement of SLA;
• access to regularly renewed technologies of a video conferencing.

The MegaFon company applies more than 7 years own managed solution on the basis of Cisco TelePresence technology both to internal communication, and to contacts with business partners and clients. The VKS system integrates the central offices and branches of MegaFon in all regions of Russia. "Thanks to the VKS systems for internal needs of our company we noted significant improvement of interaction between our business divisions and performance improvement of employees and also significant savings of the funds allocated for the organization of trips. These advantages of VKS and also our aspiration to simplify use of VKS before clicking of only one button also pushed us to creation of a unique product for our customers — the product manager of JSC Megafon Nikita Karpuk says. — The choice for benefit of solutions of Cisco for rendering of services of Premium conference was caused by their high quality, scalability, ease of setup and management from the point of view of the end user. Besides the products Cisco for providers in the field of VKS proved at foreign telecom operators".

It is planned that possibilities of intercorporate video conference with the countries of Europe and the USA will be available to users of service of Premium conference. With this purpose they will be able to address resources of the public and corporate rooms of telepresence located practically in all economically important points of the globe.