In a move to expand its Managed Services for Visual Communications (MSVC) operations, Dimension Data acquires Teliris, a privately-owned cloud video managed services business with offices in London, Connecticut and New York.
The deal went for an undisclosed sum but the acquisition fits in with Dimension Data's aggressive growth plans, and provides the Group with immediate scale in the cloud and managed video space.
Founded in 2001, Teliris is one of the first industry pioneers to deliver cloud-based managed telepresence services, and provides immersive telepresence and videoconferencing services via its own proprietary platform, Lentaris.
A member of the NTT Group (Japan's telecom leader), Dimension Data says it is the world's largest video integrator by revenue and endpoints. It also says it has the most comprehensive set of on-premise, managed, in the private cloud or as-a-service video services in the world. Through its MSVC operations, the organisation manages more than 20,000 calls per month for 430 clients across 5600 Cisco and Polycom endpoints today.
Steve Nola, Group Executive of Dimension Data's ITaaS Service Unit says, "...Teliris' cloud capabilities complement Dimension Data's existing portfolio of both cloud services and managed services offerings. This, combined with the excellent experience and skillset of the Teliris operational staff in the US and UK enables Dimension Data to accelerate the development of a true Video Conferencing-as-a-Service (VCaaS) offering to the market."
Teliris will retain its brand for the foreseeable future, and will continue to offer the services that it does today, and support its current managed services clients using its own proprietary technologies and cloud platform.
This is the third acquisition this year for Data Dimension. It acquired privately-held IT solutions provider Nexus for an undisclosed amount in April and bought NextiraOne, a communications services provider, in February for an undisclosed sum.
Go Teliris
