More progress by White Pine in Voice *and* Video delivery ...
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White Pine Signs New Alliance Partner to Deliver Complete Distance Learning and Business Communications Solutions
August 16, 1999 8:05 AM EDT
NASHUA, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 16, 1999--
Advanced Modular, a Ken Olsen Company, Will Integrate
White Pine's Multimedia Conferencing Products into Its
Line of Interactive and Streaming Video Solutions
White Pine Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: WPNE), a leading provider of multimedia conferencing applications for the Internet and intranets, today announced that Advanced Modular Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of video, streaming media, terabyte storage, and fault tolerant solutions, joins the White Pine Certified Alliance Partner Program. Modular will integrate White Pine's video-conferencing technology into its line of complete video offerings and deliver integrated solutions to educational institutions, Internet service providers (ISPs), and corporations for distance learning, product promotions and advertising, corporate communications, entertainment, broadcasting and publishing.
"To improve quality, reach larger audiences and minimize costs, companies using video and other multimedia content need well-integrated solutions that allow for timely production and delivery of video-enhanced information," said Ken Olsen, president and CEO of Advanced Modular and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation. "The partnership with White Pine Software continues our strategy to bring together best-in-class technology and the latest research results to deliver integrated solutions. We believe that the results of this cooperation will make Modular Video an even more effective solution for the workforce training and education problems of our customers."
"White Pine has a world-wide reputation for providing market-leading solutions for interactive conferencing and collaboration over IP networks," said Peg Landry, director of marketing for White Pine Software. "We're pleased to have Modular as an Alliance Partner and we look forward to the opportunities this relationship opens to offering even more complete video solutions for a variety of customer applications."
Modular Video is the outcome of two years of intense development to provide complete solutions for media production and media delivery needs in the educational, corporate and government worlds. Modular strives to achieve a "we-can-do-the-whole-job" result. This includes video capturing, video editing and effects, indexing and cataloging, encoding, compositing and Web publishing on the production side, and video-on-demand, broadcasting, videoconferencing and live interactive distance learning on the delivery side. Modular will integrate White Pine's CU-SeeMe Pro, MeetingPoint and new Continuous Presence, Streaming Media, and ClassPoint Training add-ons into its video offerings.
About CU-SeeMe and MeetingPoint
CU-SeeMe and CU-SeeMe Pro are the industry's premiere software products for Internet videochat and IP videoconferencing. MeetingPoint, the industry's first H.323 standards-based conferencing server, enables multipoint group conferences and full interoperability between users of standard H.323 clients including Microsoft NetMeeting, Intel ProShare, PictureTel LiveLAN, White Pine CU-SeeMe Pro and others. MeetingPoint has received several awards, including 1998 Product of the Year awards from both CTI and Internet Telephony magazines. Together, CU-SeeMe and MeetingPoint provide a complete conferencing and collaboration solution for an IP network.
About Advanced Modular Solutions, Inc.
Advanced Modular Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1992 by Ken Olsen as a high-tech company for the development of networked client/server computing systems. Mr. Olsen was also the founder and long time president and CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, the company that invented the mini-computer and revolutionized the whole computer industry. The Video Solutions Division, one of the divisions of the Modular group, develops solutions for video services in the educational, corporate communications and product promotions sectors.
The primary products in Modular's Video Solutions Division are the Encoding Station, Editing Station, Video Logging Station, the All-in-One Production Station and a series of tower and rack-mountable servers configurable from simple starter systems to fully redundant, fault-tolerant, multi tera-byte operations servers to deliver broadcast, video-on-demand, videoconferencing and live interactive distance learning.
Modular Video Solutions users include Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), CU GlobalNet, Gordon College and Advanced Research Solutions. Additional information about Modular can be found online at mod.com .
About White Pine Software
White Pine Software develops, markets and supports multi-platform browser-based internetworking software that facilitates worldwide video and audio communication and data collaboration across the Internet, intranets, extranets and other networks that use the Internet Protocol. White Pine's videoconferencing software products, CU-SeeMe Pro and MeetingPoint, create a client-server solution that allows users to participate in real-time, multi-point video, audio and data conferences over the Internet and intranets. White Pine Software can be found on the World Wide Web at wpine.com .
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