VisioWave Sets New Standards for High Quality Digital Video Networking/Editing & TV over Internet And Unveils VisioWave CPCI 4(R) And DreamWave(R)

Lausanne, Switzerland 16. února (PROTEXT) - VisioWave is atCeBIT - Hannover February 24/ March 1 - Halle 16 / D45 Companies and organization in every area can now haveperformant and high quality solutions to integrate video in theirbusiness processes to optimize their organization and increasetheir competitivity. VisioWave S.A. today announced new building blocks for itsaward winning digital video networking and editing solutionsusing Wavelets compression. VisioWave CPCI 4 is a fourindependent Wavelets CODECs Compact PCI module. VisioWave CPCI 4will be integrated in the industrial VisioWave Digital VideoSwitch mainly for video surveillance and multi-source videobroadcast. VisioWave Industrial Digital Video switch start at $12 500. First customer shipments for this module will take placein April 00. DreamWave is a low cost Wavelets ultra short PCIvideo CODEC priced at $500 and aimed at personal and semi-professional digital video editing as well as for low video portdensity Digital Video Networking applications. First customershipments for this module will start in March 00. "We are extremely proud to announce these new elements thatwill strongly re-enforce our video solutions. This is theconsequence of intense R&D efforts in new generation videoprocessing and streaming techniques. VisioWave is the firstcompany to accomplish this major step forward in the area ofdigital video networking, TV over Internet and editing" said YannGuyonvarch, CEO of VisioWave. "This is excellent news for alltype of organizations, public or private as well as forconsumers, waiting for affordable, performant and operationalsolutions to integrate high quality video in their communicationprocesses. Healthcare, Banking, Army, Industry, Governments,Retail, Transportation, Education etc...are dying for this sortof solutions, simply because video is the best way tocommunicate. VisioWave's solutions enable them to enhance theirexisting data networks with video capabilities whatever is thetechnology implemented: ATM, Ethernet, IP, xDSL, Cable,Wireless...". "Also I can now announce that VisioWave has just been awardedas the winner of the "Technologiestandort Schweiz" nationalinnovation competition and received a special price from Siemens,as an example of new technological software and hardwaresolutions and innovation value in the area of information andcommunication technologies." VisioWave solutions are optimized specifically to meet thedemands of today's high-performance digital video editing andstreaming over computer networks: New generation compression algorithm for Digital Video Editingand Networking: VisioWave relentlessly invested in a new generation videocompression technology which is now the cornerstone of the futureJPEG 2000 standard (www.jpeg.org). The wavelets compressiontechnology provides unique advantages and performances: highquality video, low cost, real-time coding & transmission, lownetwork bandwidth requirements (3 to 5 times less than M-JPEG),no artefact, no pixelisation, low processing power for software-only decompression, full screen or multiple active softwaredecoded video windows and amplified image processing & treatment. Video streaming over any kind of network: VisioWave's vision brought it to invest in open and advancedsolutions that allow customers to be independent of the networkinfrastructure but with quality of service, as opposed to a lotof solutions providing best effort low poor quality video.VisioWave solutions provide video streaming over Internet and anyprivate or public LAN/MAN/WAN high rate network infrastructures(ATM, Ethernet, ADSL, Cable, Wireless...) with Quality of servicemanagement and Network traffic optimization with Multicast IP. A modular Software Suite for video editing, video broadcast,video forum and conference, video on demand and videosurveillance: From drivers to GUIs, VisioWave software is designed andarchitectured for performances, simplicity, ease of use,scalability, portability and easy maintenance. VisioWave systemsinclude surveillance video servers management software, storagemanager, surveillance center, monitor manager, video broadcastaccess manager, video forum manager, html plug-in for web-basedvideo clients and an ActiveX SDK for customization andintegration in applications. Interfaces are also available forpopular applications such as Microsoft MediaServer, MediaPlayerand NetMeeting. VisioWave solution can run Windows 98, NT, 2000, LINUX andBeOS About VisioWave With several hundreds of video ports installed worldwide,VisioWave is establishing a new brand name in the fields ofdigital video streaming and TV over Internet and corporatenetworks. VisioWave delivers solutions for video broadcast, videoon demand, video forum or conference and video surveillance, aswell as in the Digital Video Editing market. The combination ofits new generation video streaming and networking techniquesallows VisioWave to provide complete and integrated solutionsconnecting more users than any other digital video networkingcompany. VisioWave S.A.- Surf the Video Wave(tm). ots Original TextService: VisioWave S.A. Internet: http://www.newsaktuell.deContact: For further information, visit VisioWave's World WideWeb site at www.visiowave.com or contact us atinfo@visiowave.com VisioWave, World Trade Center / CP 476, CH-1000 Lausanne 30 phone ++41/21/641 10 80, fax ++41/21/641 10 81VisioWave and DeamWave are registered trademarks of VisioWaveS.A.

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