Mercedes-Benz USA Selects Telanetix for Telepresence Deployment

by Adrianna

Telanetix, Inc. (TNXI) a leading developer of telepresence technology announced today that Mercedes-Benz USA has selected the Telanetix Digital Presence product line for installation at locations throughout the United States. The full-featured telepresence systems will allow Mercedes-Benz USA to link field offices located throughout the United States with the main campus located in Montvale, New Jersey. The Digital Presence System facilitates real-time video, audio and data in a life-size, face-to-face environment. The systems will incorporate the most advanced capabilities developed by Telanetix including multipoint conferencing and the ability to collaborate using video content derived from external sources such as a DVD player. The open data platform allows users to work with their data and programs in their native form without the need to translate into an intermediate program.

Design, installation and support of the systems will be provided by
Audio Visual Systems (AVS) of Woodbridge, New Jersey, a Telanetix
Authorized Channel Partner.

About Telanetix, Inc.(TNXI)

Telanetix, Inc.(TNXI) has developed a unique technology which creates a fully immersive and interactive environment that integrates audio, video, and data from multiple locations into a single environment regardless of geographic boundaries. The company's Digital Presence Technology delivers full size, face-to-face images of real-time video, audio, and data in high quality resolution at 30 frames per second which is so profoundly real that users feel as if they are all present in the same room. Using Telanetix developed Codecs and advanced MPEG-4 compression on a Linux platform, the Company has effectively replaced the central videoconferencing bridge of legacy systems with high quality decentralized IP multicasting which provides speed and resolution which is significantly greater than those found in most existing technologies.