With BlueJeans, Airtel wants to offer Indians a “secure” video calling experience

With BlueJeans, Airtel needs to supply Indians safe video conferencing expertise
With everybody transferring digital and connecting just about with each other video conferencing platforms have change into part of life. Given how essential video calling companies have change into Airtel has launched a brand new video convention platform within the nation immediately. The telecom operator introduced a strategic alliance with Verizon to introduce a video conferencing resolution for companies in India known as Airtel BlueJeans.

Compared to opponents reminiscent of JioMeet, Zoom, Skype, and others, BlueJeans is completely different because it goals to serve solely companies — from massive to small. It might be out there for shoppers within the nation beginning tonight.

Gopal Vittal, Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer of Bharti Airtel believes that Airtel BlueJeans is likely one of the most safe of all of them the video convention platforms out there within the Indian market. “We are not the first ones in the market to bring such a solution — there are many — but our platform is one of the most secure ones,” Vittal stated throughout a press briefing.

BlueJeans, based by Krish Ramakrishnan and Alagu Periyannan, each born and educated in India, was acquired by Verizon in May 2020. Interestingly, the primary prototype of BlueJeans was examined in Pune in 2009 and in 2012 on the firm’s R&D and growth centre in India.

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With BlueJeans, each Airtel and Verizon need to supply customers in India a secure and safe video conferencing expertise. Vittal and Hans Vestberg, Chief Executive Officer of Verizon stated throughout a digital press convention on BlueJeans that information of Indian customers might be hosted within the nation and saved in information facilities in India. “Security is our primary plan and that’s how BlueJeans differentiates itself from the other competitors in the market,” stated Vestberg.

BlueJeans’ enterprise-level security measures reminiscent of assembly lock, safe transmission and storage, randomized assembly IDs, participant passcodes, fraud detection, and quite a lot of authentication choices. It makes use of open, confirmed requirements for safety in addition to the WebRTC and HTML5 requirements for browser-based entry, enabling customers to take part in conferences and occasions with out requiring software program downloads, a key requirement in some safe environments.

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For the primary three months, Airtel BlueJeans might be out there at no cost for shoppers. Vittal stated, within the days to come back the corporate will announce packages for enterprises. “We will have three kinds of packages for our consumers — one for large enterprise, the second one for medium and the third for tiny or small business. We will reveal packages for BlueJeans over the next few days,” Vittal stated. He additionally assured that costs for BlueJeans might be extraordinarily aggressive in India.

BlueJeans might be totally built-in with Airtel’s community, together with its information facilities, to make sure that prospects are provided a dependable and safe video expertise. It will supply an built-in audio resolution, giving its prospects handy dial-in choices to affix the conferences.

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