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July 14/2003
BusinessWire
Teliris Expands VirtuaLive™ Solutions Portfolio
Company Increases Network Platforms and Conferencing Options, Allowing Clients to “Be Everywhere”
NEW YORK, NY, July 14, 2003 — Teliris Ltd., the world’s leading provider of Interactive Telepresence solutions, has introduced two new network platforms and added personal and executive conferencing offerings to its VirtuaLive™ meeting solution portfolio. The new platforms, VirtuaLive™ M1/4 and VirtuaLive™ M2HD, now provide a range of Interactive Telepresence solutions offered by the company. Coupled with its new Personal Conferencing and Executive Conferencing options, VirtuaLive™ users will be able to meet with co-workers without leaving the comfort of their own offices. And, they can now “be there” in a variety of ways, depending on their specific meeting requirements.
“VirtuaLive™ M2, our flagship offering and the original version of our Interactive Telepresence solution, set the standard for superior quality and usability and now, has a proven track record with clients,” said Marc Trachtenberg, a Teliris co-founder and its deputy chairman. “Our new network platforms and new meeting environment scenarios dramatically expand a user’s ability to benefit from a completely customized Interactive Telepresence solution that meets their specific requirements.”
Teliris’ original VirtuaLive™ M2 creates a natural, instant meeting environment, providing CD-quality sound and DVD-quality video on large eye-level plasma screens. It is built on an MPEG2 network platform that provides the bandwidth necessary to ensure the level of signal quality and lack of delay to qualify as a true Interactive Telepresence solution. Its unique, Wizard-based control system allows a meeting to be set up in seconds, without any of the issues—like dropped calls--associated with traditional videoconferencing call set-up.
The new VirtuaLive™ M1/4 is based on a lower bandwidth network platform that offers clients the broadest global coverage very cost effectively. It reduces both capital expenditure and operating costs dramatically while allowing access to parts of the world where communications services are limited or costly, particularly for higher bandwidth solutions. While it is a lower bandwidth network transport solution than VirtuaLive™ M2, it is still able to satisfy the standards of Interactive Telepresence, since it employs an MPEG-based network platform.
VirtuaLive™ M2HD, the company’s high definition solution, offers the best quality visual imaging available and is particularly effective for meetings with a high degree of in-room visual stimuli, or any meeting where the ability to discern the tiniest detail is critical. This is a preferred solution for meetings where participants are working collaboratively to review in-meeting visual materials that are being presented for the first time, such as package designs, architectural rendering, animation storyboards, or conducting reviews of actors in an on-camera environment versus looking at videotaped interviews, or interviewing senior executive job candidates.
“The level of quality provided by our M2HD solution is extremely well suited to the entertainment industry,” noted Teliris co-founder and COO Steve Gage. “One of our newest clients, a very sophisticated creator of film and other entertainment programming, will be using VirtuaLive™ M2HD to conduct remote editing sessions and review new entertainment concepts—activities that until now, required that everyone be in the same room at the same time.”
The original VirtuaLive™ was built around the “forum” meeting concept, a multi-screen, multi-point solution designed to accommodate teams of participants at more than two locations. The two new meeting “environments,” Personal and Executive, offer clients the opportunity to select the ideal meeting environment to suit their particular needs.
The Personal Series solution is a single-screen point-to-point solution designed for smaller meetings between two locations, while still providing superior quality. “This is an important addition to our solutions portfolio,” Trachtenberg said. “We developed the Personal Series so clients could enjoy an Interactive Telepresence solution to fit their unique situation and budget. Costs of the Personal Series start at $75,000 per room, squarely in the arena of higher-end legacy videoconferencing systems in price, while offering all of the dramatic advantages in quality the legacy systems will never be able to offer.”
The Executive Conferencing solution has been created for senior executives who want a fixed, in-office Interactive Telepresence solution that allows them to communicate directly with one another, or to be integrated into larger VirtuaLive™ meetings throughout their organization.
“With this combination of multi-bandwidth solutions and various meeting environments, Teliris can now offer a matrix of solutions for large and small organizations,” Trachtenberg said. “Our solutions fit any meeting situation,” he explained, adding “we help our clients select the right starting point, and plan out a long-term migration strategy by identifying their meeting requirements now, and down the road.”
Established in February 2001, Teliris Ltd. is a spin-off of network and directory services leader Mycroft Inc. Headquartered in New York and London, Teliris, using its VirtuaLive™ meeting environment, simulates in-person meetings to an extent not achievable with traditional videoconferencing. Among the many companies employing the VirtuaLive™ solution are Lazard, Dreamworks SKG, GSK, British Petroleum, Vodafone, 3i, and Pearson plc.
For further information, contact:
Chuck Hirsch
Director of Marketing and Communications
(212) 490-1065, ext. 205
or visit the Teliris web site at www.teliris.com
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