Tandberg and BT have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to deliver the first global non-proprietary solution for inter-company telepresence and video conferencing.  

Under the MOU, the BT One Source service, using Tandberg’s standards-based infrastructure, allows an enterprise to collaborate internally and externally across differing video and telepresence systems.

This enterprise-wide and business-to-business collaboration is made possible by BT’s One Source managed services and MPLS network and the expansion of BT Global Video Exchange with Tandberg’s infrastructure. BT Global Video Exchange enables telepresence calls between different company networks. The combination of BT’s managed concierge and network services with Tandberg’s portfolio of standards-based telepresence, room and personal video systems, gives customers easy to use, low cost, high performance reliability and high-definition video.

BT One Source for Tandberg gives interoperability from the desktop to the telepresence suite for point-to-point and multipoint calls. For the first time, Tandberg Telepresence T3 users and Polycom TPX/RPX users will be able to collaborate regardless of the platform or network. This is only possible with the Tandberg Telepresence Server infrastructure interoperability feature.