BT (News - Alert) and Verizon Enterprise Solutions have supposedly signed an agreement to make their telepresence immersive-video offerings accessible from more locations around the globe.

Cisco Telepresence (News - Alert) powers the virtual face-to-face collaboration between the customers of Verizon and BT and the new feature that makes video conference services reachable to more businesses should help the companies’ customers collaborate globally and enhance productivity. The agreement also enables enterprises to collaborate across their premium video platforms and make efficient use of their Cisco (News - Alert) TelePresence System investments.

Cisco TelePresence services enrich one’s communication and interactions with life-size, high-definition video and CD-quality audio in a premium room environment and is packed with collaborative tools such as presentation sharing and high-definition document cameras. Users can cut costs with fewer travel expenses, while still conducting their business and conduct any type of meeting, including training, recruiting, and consulting applications with Cisco Telepresence.

Verizon and BT telepresence customers will experience the same interface and service quality they currently do, with similar scheduling, support, security and encryption. Verizon (News - Alert) explained that the new agreement makes video communications more widely available to meet the needs of the evolving nature of work. The company believes that enabling customers to communicate across networks will speed the adoption of video communications and that one day it will become as ubiquitous as voice communications.

BT added that being able to connect across telepresence networks greatly expands the reach and value of the service. The more locations customers can reach, the greater the business benefits and the more quickly they can realize return on their video investment.

“As businesses adopt collaboration and mobility technologies to expand beyond the four walls of a traditional office, we're seeing more of our customers turning to advanced collaboration tools like telepresence to help boost their overall productivity and performance,” said Mike Palmer, vice president of product strategy for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, in a press release.  

In other news, Verizon continued to bring communications and computing innovation to the Delaware's consumers and businesses in 2011, investing more than $76 million in its wireline communications network and IT infrastructure throughout the state.