Huawei on Tuesday rolled out its video conferencing solution in Bangladesh and the Asia Pacific region, as the beleaguered Chinese tech company looks to capitalise on the shift to virtual meetings amid the pandemic.
Called Huawei Cloud Meeting, the platform can accommodate up to 1,000 participants and delivers an ultra-HD, stable and smooth meeting experiences that are secure and reliable.
The solution also enables one-click data sharing and transfer among PCs, mobile phones, tablets, meeting room terminals and smart TVs while supporting fast wireless projection of documents, audio, and video with the best results, according to a press release.
“Focused on revolutionising meeting experiences, our new solution will make remote communications as seamless as face-to-face communications,” said Daniel Zhou, president of cloud and AI at Huawei APAC, in a press release.
As data security becomes more and more important for remote collaboration, Huawei Cloud Meeting provides comprehensive protection for cloud and device access, data sharing and transmission backed by trustworthy processes from design, research and development process control to operations and management data monitoring, the release also said.
It ensures data sovereignty with tenanted data isolation and AES265 encryption of contacts and meeting recording.
Video conferencing services have witnessed a robust boom in the country as huge numbers of people have started working from their homes since late March.
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Platforms in use in Bangladesh include Zoom, Cisco Webex, BlueJeans and Microsoft Teams. The number of customers of videoconferencing company Zoom has shot through the roof during the pandemic and its stocks witnessed an astronomical increase since late February.
But the services rendered by the platforms are not free and sending payment for them to outside of Bangladesh was rather tricky.
This prompted the Bangladesh Bank in August to allow payments for such services through international cards and virtual cards.
In case of requirement for online payments against such services, authorised dealers (ADs) may issue a virtual card or onetime card in the name of the nominated official of the applicant entities, said the central bank notice.
Virtual cards are a digital alternative to plastic cards and the best solution for online payments.
Previously, documents had to be submitted and there was a waiting period for payments to get the approval to make it through the SWIFT Gateway.
However, some banks were allowing their customers to execute such payments under the central bank's foreign exchange guidelines. The new notice brought further clarity.