AUDITEL Contracts With Franklin Regional Hospital For IP/ISDN Videoconferencing System.Business/Technology Editors HAMPSTEAD, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2001 AUDITEL, Inc., a privately held telecommunications integration and network services company, announced today the successful installation and integration of a multi-point ISDN/IP videoconferencing A real time video session between two or more users or between two or more locations. Although the first videoconferencing was done with traditional analog TV and satellites, inhouse room systems became popular in the early 1980s after Compression Labs pioneered digitized video systems system and associated peripherals for Franklin Regional Hospital in Franklin, New Hampshire Franklin is a city in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 8,405, the lowest of any of New Hampshire's 13 cities. Franklin includes the village of West Franklin. . The system, a Polycom ViewStation MP, included a 32 inch monitor, four-head VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. , and high-end document camera. In addition, two additional Polycom ViaVideo systems were purchased for future IP video-teleconferencing communications between the hospital and its two remote medical office buildings in Bristol and Tilton via the hospitals private wide area network. AUDITEL also provided the three ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. lines and IP installation as part of the turnkey See turnkey system. integration services. Duane Coventry, Director of Information Services See Information Systems. , said, " We are extremely pleased with the Polycom ViewStation system and its abilities and functionality. In addition, having worked with a company such as AUDITEL that can supply and integrate the ISDN lines with the video hardware has been a major benefit throughout the entire process. We are looking forward to working with AUDITEL in the implementation of Phase II of this project which will include the implementation of the IP video systems in our remote offices." Joe Scotti, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of AUDITEL, was quoted as saying, "Every time we can `export' this kind of technology to such a forward-thinking healthcare facility like Franklin Regional Hospital, it gives us hope that the people (patients) in these rural areas of our state and region will eventually have access to additional healthcare resources without having to travel hours at a time." AUDITEL, Inc., established in 1992, provides telecommunications management and integration services for the Healthcare and Education markets. AUDITEL's telephone system integration, voice and data network services, videoconferencing system integration, and outsourced management services have been implemented for clients throughout the country. |
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