Tandberg (company)
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| legal form | ASA ( corporation ) |
| founding | 1933 |
| Seat | Lysaker, Oslo , Norway |
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| Number of employees | 1243 ( December 31, 2007 ) |
| sales | $ 630.5 million ( 2007 ) |
| Branch | Telecommunications, media |
| Website | www.tandberg.com |
Tandberg is a Norwegian manufacturer of video conferencing systems with headquarters in Lysaker, west of Oslo . The company was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange until it was taken over by Cisco Systems .
The main competitors are Polycom , Lifesize , Radvision , VCON and Sony , as well as the smaller competitor VTEL.
Company history
The company was founded in 1933 under the name Tandbergs Radiofabrikk by the electronics engineer Vebjørn Tandberg and initially produced loudspeakers , receivers and high-quality tape recorders and cassette players .
In 1979 the company split into Tandberg, Tandberg Data and Tandberg Television .
Tandberg acquired the Norwegian company Internet Technology AS in 1999, then in 2005 the Dutch company IVIGO from TNO Telecom in July, and the New Zealand company Ectus, Ltd. in October. The English company Codian Ltd. followed in September 2007.
In October 2009, Cisco Systems announced that it would take over Tandberg as the Telepresence Technology Group for around 3 billion US dollars. After the acquisition was completed, Tandberg has been part of Cisco Systems since April 19, 2010.
Patent controversy
In November 2010, Jason Garret-Glaser, an x264 developer, published the allegation that Tandberg Telecom had described step-by-step in a patent application from December 2008 an algorithm that he had developed for x264 in October 2008.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual report 2007
- ↑ Comparative test of high-quality cassette decks with the Tandberg TCD 3014 A, 1988 (PDF), accessed on May 22, 2020.
- ↑ Cisco Makes Recommended Offer to Acquire TANDBERG (accessed October 7, 2009)
- ↑ TANDBERG acquisition by Cisco completed (accessed September 21, 2010)
- ↑ Patent skullduggery: Tandberg rips off x264 algorithm (2010) Archived copy ( Memento from November 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)