TANDBERG Ships 10,000 Personal Telepresence
Units
TNT Purchases 10,000th Unit to Reduce Carbon Emissions
Resulting from Business Travel
NEW YORK AND OSLO, NORWAY, May 12, 2008 -
TANDBERG® (OSLO: TAA. OL), a leading global provider of telepresence,
high-definition
video conferencing and mobile video solutions, today announced
the shipment of its 10,000th personal telepresence unit, the
TANDBERG Centric 1700 MXP, indicating rapidly growing interest in
telepresence use beyond the meeting room and onto individual
desktops.
TNT, Europe's largest mail and express delivery services company,
purchased the 10,000th TANDBERG unit in support of its Planet Me
program, designed to drastically reduce its contribution to climatic
change. Installation of personal telepresence units allows TNT to
enhance collaboration with a visual means of communication for
internal and external meetings while reducing the carbon emissions
generated by business travel. With the deployment of its TANDBERG
personal telepresence systems, TNT plans to reduce the emissions of
carbon dioxide resulting from its business travel by 20 percent.
"Video is an integral part of our effort to reduce CO2
emissions," said Peter Bakker, CEO of TNT. "We target a reduction of
business travel of 20 percent in 2008 as a result of TNT people
meeting online rather than in person."
"We are at the dawn of the personalization of video in which
employees will make calls from their desktops," said Fredrik
Halvorsen, CEO of TANDBERG. "Increasingly, customers are integrating
video into their daily communication for both productivity and
environmental benefits."
Frost & Sullivan analyst Melanie Turek adds: "Room-based
video is a wonderful tool, especially now that high-definition
systems really do offer a true you-are-there look and feel. However,
personal, executive desktop systems deliver comparable quality and a
more personal feel at a significantly lower price. As more companies
go virtual, supporting a growing number of remote and home-based
workers, they can't count on employees accessing dedicated video
rooms whenever and wherever. Employees need access directly from
their desktop."
In the third quarter of 2006, TANDBERG was the first company to
ship a personal telepresence unit featuring high-definition (HD)
life-like video that makes meetings from employee desktops with
customers and colleagues thousands of miles away feel like a
face-to-face interaction.
The 1700 MXP features CD-quality audio, an integrated HD camera
and a 20" flat-screen monitor that seamlessly switches between the
PC content and brilliant, HD video calls for an unprecedented level
of interaction and collaboration throughout an entire organization.
For more information about TANDBERG's telepresence offerings, please
visit http://www.tandberg.com/telepresence?elq=EE445D3A6E184C848015D1FA2074AE91
About TNT
TNT provides businesses and
consumers worldwide with an extensive range of services for their
mail and express delivery needs. Headquartered in the Netherlands,
TNT offers efficient network infrastructures in Europe and Asia and
is expanding operations worldwide to maximize its network
performance. TNT serves more than 200 countries and employs around
161,500 people. Over 2007, TNT reported €11 billion in revenues and
an operating income of €1,192 million. TNT is publicly listed on the
stock exchange of Amsterdam. TNT recognizes its social
responsibility, and has formed partnerships with the United Nations
World Food Programme and the United Nations Environment Programme to
fight hunger and pollution in the world.
About TANDBERG
TANDBERG is a leading global
provider of telepresence, high-definition video conferencing and
mobile video products and services with dual headquarters in New
York and Norway. TANDBERG designs, develops and markets systems and
software for video, voice and data. The company provides sales,
support and value-added services in more than 90 countries
worldwide. TANDBERG is publicly traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange
under the ticker TAA.OL. Please visit http://www.tandberg.com/?elq=EE445D3A6E184C848015D1FA2074AE91
for more information.
TANDBERG is a trademark or registered trademark in the U.S. and
other countries. All other product and company names herein may be
trademarks of their respective owners
Media or Analyst Contacts:
Barnaby
Meadows
TANDBERG
+1
703.272.2132
barnaby.meadows@tandberg.com
Marcel Goldstein
Ogilvy for TANDBERG
+1 202.729.4188
marcel.goldstein@ogilvypr.com
