Tandberg - Tandberg Data, Tandberg Television, Tandberg Movi, Tandberg C90, Tandberg E20, Vebjorn Tandberg, Codian (Paperback)

Chapters: Tandberg Data, Tandberg Television, Tandberg Movi, Tandberg C90, Tandberg E20, Vebjorn Tandberg, Codian. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tandberg (OSE: TAA) is a manufacturer of videoconferencing systems, located in Oslo, Norway (product development, sales and distribution) and New York City, USA (sales and distribution). The company's main competitor is Polycom and other competitors are Sony, Radvision, Lifesize Communications, VTEL and Aethra. The company is now part of Cisco Systems. Cisco Systems has acquired Tandberg on 19 April 2010. The Tandberg company was founded as Tandbergs Radiofabrikk ("Tandberg's Radio Factory") in 1933 by electronics engineer Vebjorn Tandberg, initially producing loudspeakers, receivers (radios with built in amplifiers). The company entered the audio recording market with its first reel-to-reel tape recorder in 1952. The company was well-known for its receivers, recording equipment, and other high end audio systems. Tandberg's first picture telephone for ISDN was developed in 1989, while the fully integrated Vision H.320 picture telephone was launched in 1993. Subsequently, focus moved to higher performance systems - the Grand Vision and the Master Vision series. New desktop endpoints were also added - the Compact Vision and the Vision600. The first US office opened in 1995 in Connecticut. It was moved to Kansas City for a short period before moving to Reston, Virginia in August 1996. In 1997 the company acquired two sales and distribution companies in North America, establishing a firm foothold in the single largest videoconferencing market in the world. It created two large sales and support offices in the US. One in Virginia and the other in Texas. The office in Reston, Virginia remains the largest o...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=19478