“Bandwidth In A Box” Catapults The Human Interaction Experience To All-Time New High
Memorylink Unleashes The Power To See, Speak, Capture, Collaborate At CeBIT 10-16 March In The USA Wireless Connectivity & Communications Pavilion
HANNOVER, GERMANY, 10-16 March, 2005 – Memorylink, The Personal Bandwidth Company™, is unveiling Bandwidth In A Box™, a revolutionary new feature-packed video-and-speech communications product that eliminates latency problems and commercial carrier reliance as barriers to natural interaction between individuals.
U.S.-based Memorylink is debuting its first European production version of Bandwidth In A Box here at CeBIT 2005 using wireless broadband transmission technology to connect visitors at two locations – Booths B-8 and B-59 in Hall 013, Stand C-38, which houses the USA Wireless Connectivity and Communications Pavilion.
The underlying technology for Bandwidth In A Box supports a complete wireless system that allows for a highly unique, two-way video and audio experience over a user-owned-and-controlled private network at distances measured anywhere from a few hundred yards to many of miles. This same technology also operates over fiber optical and local area networks.
“The promise of Bandwidth In A Box is that it gives each of us the personal bandwidth we need in our lives – the freedom to communicate on our own terms,” said Thomas A. Freeburg, Memorylink COO and director of strategy. “It means technology molded around the way we live, work and play.
“Greater personal bandwidth effects immediacy, opportunity, economic gain, and connectivity. It’s about giving power to the user. The personal bandwidth in Bandwidth In A Box means that individuals own and therefore control the technology, not the other way around,” Freeburg said.
Bandwidth In A Box is a feature-rich product that offers extremely low-latency and high-quality video and audio. It is the first wireless technology that fully enhances the human interaction experience because video latency is only about 200 milliseconds – less than the normal human reaction time.
A major design feature of Bandwidth In A Box includes a capability that allows users at both ends of the link to record all of their respective incoming video and audio for replay purposes. Also, when connected to someone, each user has a Remote View Window – a visual confirmation of what the other is seeing at their end of the link.
A Pan-Tilt-Zoom feature gives Bandwidth In A Box users the ability to control cameras at either end of the communications link. Users can open a small window for point-and-click remote camera control to enhance the video experience.
The Pan-Tilt-Zoom feature is especially useful in a domestic security setting where a grown child wishes to maintain direct contact with an elderly parent – almost as if they were all in the same room together. For parents of young children who want a two-way window between office and home to achieve that secure “in the same room” feeling, Bandwidth In A Box provides the ideal, always-connected solution by placing them within visual and audio reach of both their children and the nanny or other domestic caregiver.
While the focus of Bandwidth In A Box is on personal bandwidth and the communications needs of individuals, enterprises of all kinds now have the opportunity to benefit greatly from this new generation of communications innovation. In an enterprise video-conferencing setting where two-way, low-latency imaging is critical, Bandwidth In A Box provides the optimal solution. The same is true in situations involving interactive training between or among remote sites, especially when the ability to deliver effective, low-latency, high-quality video and audio is mandated. In a manufacturing setting, production managers can use Bandwidth In A Box to interact with each other through sight and sound from any number of remote factory locations, thereby increasing productivity to levels that could not otherwise be achieved.
The new production version of Bandwidth In A Box features comes packed with two Memorylink Strongbow™ video compressors, a pair of high-quality video cameras and echo-canceling microphones, two amplified speaker systems, two Internet Protocol radios for wireless connectivity between units, computer software, connecting cables and instructions. A pair of user-supplied computers completes the Bandwidth In A Box system configuration.
Memorylink, based near Chicago, USA, is The Personal Bandwidth Company™, empowering people with communication technology and products to enhance the quality of their lives. Since 1998, Memorylink has been working toward the goal of connecting people – from where they are to where they want to be – to ensure that their Personal Bandwidth™ requirements are satisfied. To discover how Memorylink can satisfy your Personal Bandwidth requirements or those of your customers, please visit us at www.Memorylink.com.
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