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GBH Communications, Inc. Offers Next Generation of LifeSize High Definition Video Communications and Telepresence Products
GBH to offer the Industry's First Available Standards-Based 1080p30, 720p60 Systems; New Management and Infrastructure Products Make Enterprise Deployment Easy

HaiVision's MAKO-HD Telepresence Codec Transmits First Live Stereoscopic 3D High Definition Surgical Procedure Using IP Video
HaiVision Systems Inc. (Montreal, Canada), the world's leading vendor of performance H.264 network video codecs, announces that today at the annual meeting of the Canadian Urology Association (CUA) in Edmonton, Canada, the industry leading MAKO-HD video encoder/decoder technology is being used to transmit live surgical stereoscopic 3D high definition 1080i video from Intuitive Surgical's daVinci S robotic surgical system.

Cisco Systems, LifeSize Communications, RADVISION, TANDBERG and the CEO of Cisco Systems win Awards from Videoconferencing Insight Newsletter for thei
Awards are for: Telepresence Company of the Year 2007 (Cisco), Videoconferencing Company of the Year 2007 (LifeSize), Unified Visual Communications Company of the Year 2007 (RADVISION), The Most Innovative Videoconferencing Technology of the Year 2007(TANDBERG) and Industry Leader of the Year 2007 (John Chambers, CEO Cisco). They were announced by online Specialist Newsletter Videoconferencing Insight at www.vcinsight.com on 9 January 2008.

Glowpoint and HaiVision deliver Telepresence and Interactive Broadcast High Definition Video
HaiVision Systems Inc. (Montreal, Canada), the world's leading vendor of performance H.264 network video codecs, announces collaboration with Glowpoint (OTC: GLOW), a premiere broadcast-quality, IP-based managed video service provider, to deliver telepresence and interactive broadcast network video services. Telepresence integrators and broadcasters can now source HD network video solution packages validated specifically for the performance and operational characteristics necessary within these segments such as video quality, video latency, system manageability, reliability, and on-line customer service.

Glowpoint Certifies HaiVision Telepresence Equipment
Glowpoint Inc., a premiere broadcast-quality, IP-based managed video service provider, and HaiVision, a leading provider of network video equipment used in broadcast video distribution and telepresence suites by some of the key providers of telepresence rooms, today announced the certification of the HaiVision line of products for use on the Glowpoint network.

DC-Sat.Net Selects HaiVision hai1000 for Affordable H.264 Satellite Video Transport Solution
HaiVision Systems Inc. (Montreal, Canada), the world leader in performance video encoding technology, today announces that DC-Sat.Net, the UK's most experienced provider of VSat video transport, has selected the hai1000 series of MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 codecs to provide efficient video to IP compression for IP based satellite transmission.

BrightCom to Present Telepresence and Web 2.0 Technology at Enterprise 2.0
BrightCom, a leading enterprise telepresence and web conferencing solution provider, will be pushing the boundaries of Web 2.0 Technology at Enterprise 2.0, The Collaborative Technologies Conference June 18-20 in Boston, Massachusetts. BrightCom will demonstrate its latest version of ClearView Session Manager 1.4.6 with enhanced 16 person multiway video conferencing solution with no multipoint control unit necessary. BrightCom will also be displaying its high end web conferencing solution Visual Collaboration System (VCS) as well as its telepresence suite solutions. ClearView Conferencing and VCS are fully integrated video, audio and web conferencing systems allowing enterprise business to move beyond out-dated email file sharing of today.

Demand for Telepresence Solutions is Exploding Reports Telepresence and Videoconferencing Insight Online Newsletter
Cisco Systems saw orders for 500 systems from December 2006 to April 2008 and a further 500 in the last five months. Other Telepresence vendors report a very high level of demand. Reflecting this enormous interest in Telepresence, readers of the Newsletter have more than doubled in this period.

The History of Video Conferencing – Moving Ahead at the Speed of Video
No new technology develops smoothly, and video conferencing had more than its share of bumps along the way before becoming the widely used communications staple it is today. The history of video conferencing in its earliest form goes back to the 1960's, when AT&T introduced the Picturephone at the World's Fair in New York.

Public Telepresence Rooms