Verizon is scaling BlueJeans and integrating it with its wider offering “every day”, according to CEO, Hans Vestberg.
Vestberg was speaking as Verizon announced Q1 results which saw sales rise four per cent year on year to $32.9bn.
When asked how Verizon is integrating BlueJeans, he said:
“On the BlueJeans and collaboration tools, we are integrating that every day here in new settings, with new partners all the time, because this is a great asset and we are scaling it right now”
“So that feels really good, and we still have the whole 5G era and the mobile edge compute area which is going to need video conferencing or communication services.
“There is a lot more to be done there.”
Consumer sales make up the lion’s share of Verizon’s revenue at $22.8bn. The business-focused unit saw sales climb 1.3 per cent year on year to $7.8bn.
Verizon does not break out numbers specific to BlueJeans or Unified Communications.
The firm announced its acquisition of BlueJeans last April and said it would combine the meeting platform with its own unified-communications-as-a-service offering.
Vestberg said that the opportunity around UC is enhanced by the rollout of 5G and SD-WAN.
“We build [UC] into the SD-WAN solutions and [we are] continuously working with our customers that want to migrate right now; we have great offerings in the market.
“We feel good about that, to be part of that transformation in the market which is offsetting some of the wireline secular declines that we see as well. Overall, I feel that we have a good position.”
