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Media and news 2005 Ectus
Secures Foothold in North American Market New Zealand technology start-up Ectus has launched into the North American market, signing distribution agreements for Ectus MEDIA, its innovative online collaboration software solution, with major US distributor Roscor Corporation. The deal involves Illinois-based Roscor actively marketing and distributing Ectus MEDIA to Roscor’s extensive client base in Central and Mid-West USA and also engaging as Master Value Added Reseller across all of North America. Ectus MEDIA is a world-leading technology solution developed out of research from Waikato University. The software utilizes video streaming and rich media to make videoconferencing sessions or any other recorded presentations, seminars or lectures available on demand to anyone with access to the Internet. Users of Ectus MEDIA can not only view streaming video presentations, they can also collaborate with other viewers and the presenter by adding and reading notes, asking questions, and viewing graphics and PowerPoint slides linked to the presentation. Ectus’s CEO,
Dr Mark Topping, said North America was the
world’s largest market for video conferencing
and online collaboration products and the Roscor
distribution agreement signified a major foothold
into that market. Roscor Corporation
has been a leading provider of professional
video, audio, multimedia, and computer based
products and services for more than 30 years. The markets Roscor
covers include education, corporate, video production,
video post production, audio production, audio
post production, presentation systems, distance
education, broadcast, transmission, mobile production,
and computer based multimedia applications. “ There is
a large and growing demand from corporations,
government agencies and educational providers
for web-accessible collaborative communications
tools,” Otten said.
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