AT&T has unveiled a suite of new features for its Telepresence Solution, to help users conduct meetings that are encrypted for business and security reasons, share videos and control call participants.

The new features provide businesses with collaboration tools that reportedly improve productivity while helping decrease costs such as business travel.

The company said that it now offers encryption between Cisco TelePresence endpoints in point-to-point or multi-point business to business meetings. Users of the AT&T Business Exchange could establish encrypted connections with the intercompany-enabled Cisco TelePresence endpoints deployed worldwide.

The suite of new features to AT&T Telepresence Solution includes Enhanced Conference Controls – which enables users to select the way they see speaking participants displayed on their Cisco IP phone; Lotus Notes Domino Support – which enables customers to schedule AT&T Telepresence Solution meetings via their groupware platform; and High Resolution Video Sharing – which allows customers to share 30 frames per second high frame rate content.

Bill Archer, chief marketing officer of AT&T Business Solutions, said: We’re focused on continuing to expand and innovate on the capabilities that AT&T Telepresence Solution provides to companies throughout the world. These latest enhancements reflect our commitment to provide an industry-leading, fully-managed Cisco TelePresence solution that offers companies the ability to interact with their key business partners in a highly-secure environment.