TANDBERG has shipped 10,000 personal Telepresence Units
TANDBERG has announced the shipment of 10,000 personal telepresence units, the TANDBERG Centric 1700 MXP, indicating rapidly growing interest in telepresence use beyond the meeting room and onto individual desktops.
TNT, Europe’s largest mail and express delivery services company, purchased the 10,000 th TANDBERG unit in support of its Planet Me programme, designed to drastically reduce its contribution to climatic change.
Installation of TANDBERG personal Telepresence units allows TNT to enhance collaboration with a visual means of communication for internal and external meetings while reducing the carbon emissions generated by business travel. With the deployment of its TANDBERG personal Telepresence systems, TNT plans to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide resulting from its business travel by 20 percent.
Peter Bakker, CEO of TNT, said “Video is an integral part of our effort to reduce CO2 emissions. We target a reduction of business travel of 20 percent in 2008 as a result of TNT people meeting online rather than in person.”
TNT provides businesses and consumers worldwide with an extensive range of services for their mail and express delivery needs. Headquartered in the Netherlands, TNT offers efficient network infrastructures in Europe and Asia and is expanding operations worldwide to maximise its network performance. TNT serves more than 200 countries and employs around 161,500 people.
“We are at the dawn of the personalisation of video in which employees will make calls from their desktops,” said Fredrik Halvorsen, CEO of TANDBERG. “Increasingly, customers are integrating video into their daily communication for both productivity and environmental benefits.”
Frost & Sullivan analyst Melanie Turek adds: “Room-based video is a wonderful tool, especially now that high-definition systems really do offer a true you-are-there look and feel. However, personal, executive desktop systems deliver comparable quality and a more personal feel at a significantly lower price. As more companies go virtual, supporting a growing number of remote and home-based workers, they can’t count on employees accessing dedicated video rooms whenever and wherever. Employees need access directly from their desktop.”
In the third quarter of 2006, TANDBERG was the first company to ship a personal telepresence unit featuring High-Definition (HD) life-like video that makes meetings from employee desktops with customers and colleagues thousands of miles away feel like a face-to-face interaction.
The 1700 MXP features CD-quality audio, an integrated HD camera and a 20" flat-screen monitor that seamlessly switches between the PC content and brilliant, HD video calls for an unprecedented level of interaction and collaboration throughout an entire organisation.
Source: www.VCInsight.com
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