OREANDA-NEWS. Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of communications, announces the addition of a state-of-the-art virtual meeting telepresence suite to its global network, situated in the heart of downtown Shanghai. Launched in partnership with China Mobile and JW Marriott, Hotel Shanghai, the new in-hotel facility located within the 5-star luxury JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai at Tomorrow Square, provides participants a life-sized, high definition and immersive virtual collaboration experience.

Through a partnership with China Mobile, the JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai telepresence facility will be connected to Tata Communications’ Global Meeting Exchange™ telepresence inter-exchange network – one of the broadest and widest-reaching telepresence networks available today. This network has connectivity to all Tata Communications’ private telepresence rooms as well as the customers of service providers with whom it has inter-exchange connectivity agreements in place, and vice versa. Tata Communications’ Global Meeting Exchange™ telepresence inter-exchange network also serves as a gateway to its public room telepresence network with more than 40 rooms across five continents.

Peter Quinlan, vice president, integrated business video services, Tata Communications, says, “China is currently the world’s second largest economy and one of the fastest growing markets globally. The desire for convenient, immersive and professional business communications with this market has never been stronger. In partnership with China Mobile and JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai, the addition of Shanghai to our telepresence community provides companies doing business with China – and Chinese companies doing business internationally – with a powerful collaboration tool and a great way to accelerate and enhance all manner of relationships.”

Silvio Rosenberger, general manager, JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai, says, “There is an increasing demand to incorporate technology, virtual meetings and social media into new meeting offerings from the next generation of business customers. As the only hotel in Shanghai equipped with a telepresence meeting suite, this is another example of JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai’s commitment to innovation by offering our clients an exciting, new meeting solution that facilitates a face-to-face meeting in the same room, regardless of global location.”

The Shanghai public telepresence room offers users who do not have telepresence rooms within their company, access to this cutting-edge technology at an affordable hourly rate.