TANDBERG
is the technology leader in
real-time visual communications
with the company’s commitment
to open standards, interoperability,
and constant innovation. The
company has focused development
efforts around the area of
IP communications, which is
rapidly becoming the world’s
business platform of choice,
while maintaining full interoperability
with legacy networks. TANDBERG
has achieved industry leading
time-to-market advantage through
rapid development cycles,
a unified architecture and
selective outsourcing. The
research and design teams
produce a steady stream of
TANDBERG “firsts”,
innovative new products that
have kept TANDBERG at the
forefront of the industry.
All TANDBERG products now
operate on the H.264 standard.
The ratification of the H.264
standard was one of the industry’s
major innovations in 2003.
H.264 enables TANDBERG customers
to achieve the same video
quality at half the bandwidth
of previous standards, a major
cost-saving benefit. TANDBERG
was the first to implement
H.264 across its entire product
line including the TANDBERG
MCU and the TANDBERG Gateway,
and began shipping these solutions
24 hours following ratification.
It’s now easier than
ever to manage and schedule
video meetings. TANDBERG extended
its lead in visual solutions
management through key enhancements
to its popular TANDBERG Management
Suite (TMS). During 2003 the
company introduced several
powerful new features to TMS,
such as expanded multi-vendor
support for video systems,
MCUs, gatekeepers, web conferencing
services like WebEx™
and Microsoft® Exchange,
and Outlook integration. Through
Outlook, users can schedule
people, rooms, voice, video,
and web conferences with an
interface they use every day.
Business is adopting IP for
voice and video faster than
anticipated. The TANDBERG
Gateway, introduced in 2003,
makes voice and video between
IP networks and ISDN transparent.
It is the most feature-rich,
easily deployable gateway
on the market today and provides
the security of AES encryption,
enables presentations using
DuoVideo, and supports network
and video equipment from all
major vendors.
The company’s goal,
every year, is to improve
the return on investment customers
experience with TANDBERG solutions.
As customers have accelerated
their use of visual communication,
they have asked for solutions
tailored to their industry
or environment. TANDBERG responded
by introducing a variety of
new products geared toward
these needs:
- The TANDBERG
7000 is a video system for
executive meeting rooms and
conference
rooms that has the same performance
features as the TANDBERG
8000 but
with a smaller profile, including
30-inch LCD screens.
- The Presenter Module integrates
with any projector system
to enable
interactive
video communications.
- The new Tactical unit –
for the military, emergency
response, and public-
sector markets
– is a portable video
system that can be used in
the field
wherever
there is a network connection.
- See&Share™ enables
audio participants to join
video conferences by seeing
and sharing
the same presentation material
during a meeting via the Web.
TANDBERG product development
and delivery capabilities
continue to lead the industry.
2003 was another year of significant
TANDBERG firsts, including
first-to-market with H.264
and AES encryption across
the product line. TANDBERG
introduced the industry’s
first plug-and-play MCU and
gateway to support full video
functionality. The company
was the first to integrate
visual communications with
WebEx web conferencing services.
Future TANDBERG firsts, like
those of the past, will come
from listening to customers,
commitment to standards, support
for multi-vendor environments,
and innovation in IP communications.
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