ATEME and Barco announce partnership to provide Video Security Solutions
BIEVRES, France and KORTRIJK, Belgium, 19 May 2008 - ATEME™ SA, world leader in MPEG-4/H.264 video compression technology, and Barco, world leader in display and visualization solutions for professional markets, announce their partnership to deliver end-to-end H.264-based video security solutions.
The combination of video security products from ATEME and Barco offer customers a complete H.264-based solution, addressing mission critical video security requirements. SVC-2, Barco's second-generation integrated streaming video card, offers unmatched performance for the simultaneous processing of large amounts of streaming video signals in real-time with minimal latency. The SVC-2 streaming video card is used in control room setups to visualize information streams from multiple suppliers as well as multiple compression technologies.
ATEME provides a full range of video security solutions for highways, airports, public transportation systems and urban areas. It provides ISO 14496-2 and 14496-10 compliant encoders for transmitting audio and video over IP networks. ATEME's video security solutions are built on the renowned MPEG-4/H.264 technology and deliver high quality video at very low bandwidths.
"In order to meet the growing demand for high quality video, security customers are increasingly looking at the quality and efficiency gains offered by H.264", Thierry Tourneux, Director of the Video Security Business Unit at ATEME stated. "ATEME is pleased to be working with Barco in offering our customers our combined expertise in delivering high-end video security solutions".
"The interoperability of the SVC-2 with ATEME's H.264 video compression technology demonstrates once again the flexibility and performance of Barco's streaming video decoding solutions.", said Steven Ooms, Market Director Traffic & Surveillance at Barco, "Also customers with existing SVC-2 solutions can now enjoy the benefits of ATEME's H.264 encoders for monitoring additional video sources, while re-using or extending their original investment in the Barco real-time control room setup."
About ATEME
ATEME (www.ateme.com) is a world-leading provider of MPEG-4/H.264 video compression solutions. ATEME's renowned technology supports both standard and HD content, deployed across any platform – from mobile to Ultra HD. ATEME provides broadcasters, telcos and security providers with unmatched compression quality and bandwidth efficiency. ATEME Because Content Deploys Everywhere
ATEME™ and VSIP™ are trademarks of ATEME SA. Editor's Note – Images, camera-ready logos and other press-related information is available from the ATEME Video Security Solutions website: www.ateme.com
About BARCO
Barco, a global technology company, designs and develops visualization products for a variety of selected professional markets. Barco has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.
Barco (NYSE Euronext Brussels: BAR) is active in more than 90 countries with about 3600 employees worldwide. Barco posted sales of euro 747 million in 2007.
