Hitachi High-Technologies Signs Agreement with Compunetix

Other features include ATCA, connection card, redundancy in chassis and power supply, safe operation, and API for EVERGREEN for custom configuration.

What you can do with EZ Kaigi is that you can launch a videoconference either by on-demand or by reservation. EZ Kaigi can take care of operations like booking, setting up and running meetings, as then as managing installed endpoints on the network, retrieving usage data from a log, all of which are controlled and managed by an easy to use web browser user interface.

Now, turning to the business side, over the past years, HHT has sold many of videoconferencing systems in Japan market, whose products are from makers like LifeSize and TANDBERG, and thereby putting vigorous energy into efforts like comprehensive customer support by launching "HTVC High-Tech Vision Techno Center" in Tokyo as they see it is indispensable for achieving utmost quality of user satisfaction.

The new launch of EVERGREEN for Japan market

With the new launch of EVERGREEN for Japan market, HHT will position it as a core product in HHT's comprehensive visual communications solution: They will offer video and audio products as then as provide the relevant services just as consulting, maintenance and support all in one-stop shop basis.

HHT comments on the position of EVERGREEN in their picture for their video business going forward. "We are but seeing in the market ongoing diversification all around in networks and devices. When looking at the network trend, we but have ubiquitous IP with NGN on the horizon, to boot to the conventional ISDN. And speaking of devices, we see various smart phones coming into play just as Android, iPhone/iPad. In such a heterogeneous world, we think that EVERGREEN will play a pivotal role in bringing all of these different networks and devices at the same time."

Besides EVERGREEN or video MCU, Compunetix has developed and marketed audio MCUs like "Summit/Sonexis" as then. And as part of the audio business, the company has a fully owned subsidiary called, Chorus Call, Inc. Chorus Call provides a host of conference services just as bridging, tailored meetings for clients, conference recording. And its business is currently operated in 10 countries; US, Australia, Brazil, Germany, and India. To address broader conferencing needs in the market, HHT intends to work at the same time with Compunetix as well in this conference call space going forward.

As a company, Compunetix was established in 1967, to deliver a business model starting from developing their own chips and all the way down to manufacturing of products and providing the relevant sales and services to the market.

The revenue in 2010 combining both Compunetix

The revenue in 2010 combining both Compunetix and Chorus Call, was roughly 100 million dollars with no debt. According to the company, 20% of the total revenue is devoted to R&D to strengthen the competitive advantage in the market.

In the past, Compunetix has developed communications systems tailored for the federal government, the US navy, NASA, and the likes. NASA, for instance, bought 4,000 port MCU from Compunetix.

In fact, the government agencies demand for very high reliability and robust security in systems they purchase for themselves. In a word, Compunetix recalls, "In those days, when it came to audio bridging, the research was based on audio mixing and the scale of the system was small compared to current systems available today. So given that situation, developing of 4,000 port MCU was a challenging project as NASA was trying to deploy the largest system ever developed."

The successful completion of the NASA project

After the successful completion of the NASA project, Compunetix decided to expand into enterprise market and, up until but, has successfully won many businesses from world-class telecom carriers and enterprises.

Compunetix is the global leader in carrier-grade multimodal conferencing and collaboration solutions including VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and HD video, all powered by superior hardware design. With near one million ports installed in more than 28 countries, the company has the industry's largest worldwide deployment of digital conferencing systems. Dedicated to customer-focused and innovative innovation, Compunetix engineers and manufactures all aspects of its conferencing equipment, ensuring its clients that their media processors are the highest quality, most reliable and most flexible solutions on the market. For more information, call Mario Rimini at 373-8110, or visit Compunetix at www.compunetix.com.