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TandBerg Launches New HD Video Conference Service

January 30, 2009 – 3:44 am

Tandberg, a video conferencing and telepresence services company announced yesterday the release of a new product, Profile. Profile is a video conferencing solution that includes the complete package: camera, video displays, microphones, speakers, remote controls and the company’s newly developed C60 codec to process the high definition feed.

The system is designed to be set up in a conference room, and while the setup is similar to popular and much more expensive telepresence solutions, Tandberg considers this high definition, high quality video conferencing. Unlike other telepresence solutions offered by Tandberg, the system has a limit to the number and size of the screens that are used. The new C60 codec is a slimmed down version of the C90 codec used in telepresence solutions. The package also doesn’t include matching furniture to closer simulate that the remote people you are working with are sitting in the same room.

The Profile system with a single screen costs $38,900, compared with the company’s lowest-end telepresence solution starting at $69,900. The Tandberg profile is being targeted at medium sized businesses that require high quality video conferencing, but don’t have the need or infrastructure to support full telepresence systems. The Profile will be competing against other similar products recently introduced by rival video conferencing firms LifeSize and Polycom.