predict significant savings on time and travel costs.
(1888PressRelease) November 22, 2009 - Datacraft, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dimension Data, the $4.5-billion specialist IT services and solutions provider, has extended the Group’s TelePresence footprint with the newly installed systems in its New York, London, Johannesburg, Singapore, Tokyo, Brisbane and Canberra offices.
The move is in line with the Dimension Data Group’s Green strategy to reduce employee travel globally, and increase accessibility of TelePresence to a broader Group audience in order to communicate and collaborate globally in real time.
Andy Cocks, Solutions and Strategic Alliance Director at Datacraft says, “We expect to cut travel costs among the Group’s senior management alone to between 15% and 20% – and that’s without comprising crucial, real-time, face-to-face contact which makes for successful leadership.”
Cocks says Datacraft has been successfully using TelePresence to communicate between their Singapore and Tokyo offices. “In fact, we have even conducted job interviews as well as internal review meetings via TelePresence.”
“Another benefit is being able to interact with employees, partners, and vendors in a way that models face-to-face communication. Thanks to a direct connection into the Cisco Exchange, inter-company communications are easy, and the Group’s communications network is expanding daily,” explains Cocks.
In addition to large three-screen Cisco TelePresence CTS3000 systems in Sydney, Melbourne and Johannesburg offices, Cisco CTS1000 / CTS1100 systems were installed in the Group’s New York, London, Singapore, Tokyo, Brisbane and Canberra offices.
Datacraft, a Dimension Data company, is using the Tata Communications Limited global WAN to connect its internal TelePresence endpoints, including a link from South Africa to London using the Dimension Data owned new-generation telco, Internet Solutions.
Earlier this year, Dimension Data and Tata Communications Limited signed a global go-to-market agreement. “With both Tata and Dimension Data’s extensive global footprint, our solution offering has attracted interest from many organisations wanting to expand their own video and TelePresence capabilities,” Cocks concludes.
Plans are to roll out additional TelePresence endpoints throughout Europe in the next few months, and to the rest of the Group within the next six months.
According to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index Forecast and Methodology 2008-2013 White Paper, June 2009, 90% of all consumer traffic will be video based by 2013 and will be the sum of all forms of video (TV, video on demand, Internet, and peer to peer (P2P)). Internet video alone will account for over 60% of all consumer Internet traffic in five years.
About Datacraft
Datacraft is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dimension Data plc (LSE:DDT), a US$4.5 billion leading global IT solutions and services provider. Datacraft operates in over 50 offices across 13 Asia Pacific countries. We help clients plan, build, support, manage, improve and innovate their IT infrastructures. Datacraft combines an expertise in networking, security, data centre, storage, Microsoft solutions and converged communications & contact centre technologies, with advanced skills in consulting, integration, training and managed services to craft IT solutions for businesses. For more information, please visit www.datacraft-asia.com
For further information, please contact:
Esther Quah (Datacraft Asia)
Tel: (65) 6322 6688
Email: esther.quah ( @ ) datacraft-asia dot com
Tng Szu Lin (Datacraft Asia)
Tel: (65) 6322 6605
Email: szu-lin.tng ( @ ) datacraft-asia dot com http://www.datacraft-asia.com
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