PictureTel Corporation
| PictureTel Corporation | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1984 |
| resolution | 2001 |
| Reason for dissolution | Takeover by competing companies |
| Seat | Massachusetts state |
| Branch | Video telephony |
The PictureTel Corporation was in the State of Massachusetts Canada based company that systems for video telephony over circuit-switched developed communication channels. PictureTel created early forerunners of today's video formats based on frequency transformation and motion prediction , called C-2000 and C-3000. This is also where the audio formats of the Siren series were developed, on which the ITU-T standards G.722.1 and G.719 are based.
The company was founded on August 13, 1984 by Brian L. Hinman, Jeffrey G. Bernstein and David Staelin as "PicTel Corporation". The three had met in the 1970s in an electrical engineering graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . On November 8, 1984, the company went public . In May 2001, the acquisition by rival Polycom for approximately $ 362 million was announced and completed in October.
Web links and further sources
- Former website on picturetel.com ( Memento from February 6, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
- PictureTel Corp. History (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The New York Times, May 25, 2001: Polycom Buying Rival