Verizon Wireless targets SMBs with FuzeBox's video-conferencing offering

Mobile video collaboration and content quickly is becoming a mainstay of businesses with an increasingly mobile or distant workforce, and more solutions are hitting the market in what seems like a daily basis.

This week, Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) and visual collaboration player FuzeBox, looking to make hay in the SMB space, announced a partnership to offer videoconferencing and content collaboration platform Fuze Meeting to Verizon smartphone subscribers.

The technology gives users the ability to start multi-party HD videoconferences from their smartphones. In addition it allows them to add documents for cross-platform HD content collaboration from virtually anywhere and on any smartphone device, regardless of its operating system.

Fuze Meeting will be available via the Business Solutions Alliance (BSA) Program on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network. It is the first collaboration solution that Verizon has selected to provide cloud-based collaboration and multi-party videoconferencing, and it is the only collaboration solution that is device--and OS--agnostic; the company said it will work on everything from the Droid Bionic to the Samsung Galaxy to Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad 2.

"In the last few years, telepresence and video conferencing have advanced to the next echelon, and, with 4G, we are moving business capabilities to the next level," said Michael Toto, director of Enterprise and Government Partnerships at Verizon Wireless. "As tablets and mobile devices continue to advance their capabilities and get adopted as de facto tools in the business environment, video collaboration is becoming mainstream for diagnostics, analysis, transactions and many other drivers that companies rely on."

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