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White Pine Software First to Integrate Streaming Technology With Multipoint Group Conferencing Through MeetingPoint H.323 Server - www.wpine.com
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Streaming Integration Enables Live Interactive Conferences
to Be Broadcast En Masse, and Allows for
Recording and Playback On-Demand for Meetings and Classes
White Pine Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:WPNE), a leading provider of
multimedia conferencing applications for the Internet and intranets,
today announced the integration of streaming media technology into its
MeetingPoint(tm) conference server, which is the first such
integration between streaming technology and H.323 conferencing.
MeetingPoint is a standards-based software product that enables
real-time multipoint group conferencing over an IP network using the
H.323 protocol. With the integration of streaming media, MeetingPoint
will be able to broadcast a live interactive conference to hundreds or
even thousands of people using a streaming media server and player
such as Cisco(R) IPTV(R), Microsoft(R) NetShow(tm) Server and Windows
Media Player, or RealNetworks(tm) RealServer(tm) and RealPlayer(R). It
also enables live interactive meetings or classes to be recorded and
played back on demand. White Pine will be demonstrating this
integrated technology at the Internet World trade show in Los Angeles,
April 14-16, in booth no. 958. The streaming media integration will be
available commercially in the next release of MeetingPoint slated for
June delivery.
This will be the first time that H.323 group conferencing and
streaming media have been merged into an integrated product offering,
making it possible for customers to easily take advantage of the most
appropriate combination of technologies for their application
scenario. MeetingPoint allows small-group interaction between clients
such as Microsoft Netmeeting, Intel ProShare, and White Pine CU-SeeMe
Pro. Now the content of a fully-interactive MeetingPoint conference
can be captured and streamed out to another set of users who are
observers. This combination of technologies allows a company to
broadcast a board meeting or executive briefing session out to its
entire staff. It allows a virtual press conference to be held with a
company spokesperson, an industry analyst, and customer reference
making an interactive presentation which is broadcast out to
participating writers, editors, and analysts. It allows an interactive
Internet talkshow to broadcast a panel discussion out to viewers. It
also allows a training session to be taught in which experts address a
topic and their content is streamed out to students all over the
world. And because the interactive conference is translated into
streaming media, it can be recorded and played back. This means an
executive can review the contents of a meeting, or a student can go
back and view a class that he missed.
"The integrated streaming functionality in MeetingPoint opens up
a whole new world of applications, both in the corporate and
educational sectors," said Roger Wallman, product manager for White
Pine Software. "Now real-time, interactive content of any sort can be
made available to a virtually unlimited audience. It greatly enhances
the breadth and reach of a variety of communications over the Internet
or a corporate intranet."
MeetingPoint was the first conference server software to
implement the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) H.323
standard for conferencing over packet networks. It enables the tens of
millions of users who have installed H.323 desktop clients such as
Intel TeamStation and ProShare(tm), Microsoft NetMeeting(tm),
PictureTel LiveLAN(tm), and White Pine CU-SeeMe(R) Pro to participate
in full multi-point group conferences for departmental meetings,
partner support, corporate training, and other business-critical
applications. MeetingPoint has been awarded several industry awards,
including product of the year awards most recently from both CTI
magazine and Internet Telephony magazine. |
