cVideo Appoints Rear Admiral James W. Eastwood to Board of Directors.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2002 cVideo Inc., a leading developer of networked, digital-video security applications, announced the appointment of Rear Admiral James W. Eastwood to its board of directors. Eastwood will advise cVideo in the areas of business development and strategic growth initiatives for digital-video surveillance systems in the government sector. As a decorated, two-star admiral, Eastwood is a Naval Reserve A Naval Reserve is the reserve body of a nation's Navy, typically called-upon in times of conflict. Naval Reserves include;
"With homeland security Noun 1. Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Department of Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States a top government priority, the market for digital-video surveillance systems is experiencing a compounding surge in demand," said Al Tumini, president of cVideo. "Eastwood's remarkable and extensive government expertise is just what we needed to continue our momentum with existing and emerging government opportunities." cVideo is not a newcomer to the government market; the company is an offspring of a 50-year-old, publicly-traded defense contractor Noun 1. defense contractor - a contractor concerned with the development and manufacture of systems of defense armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; . The cVideo core technology was invented within a defense-system engineering group to send classified images from helicopters to land-based data stations -- using maximum file compression See data compression. (algorithm) file compression - The compression of data in a file, usually to reduce storage requirements. while maintaining image quality and integrity. cVideo owns the patent to its video-compression technology. About cVideo Inc. cVideo develops, manufactures and markets hardware and software for networked, digital-video applications. cVideo products record and transmit video and audio used in the surveillance and protection of multi-site businesses and their assets. Patented video compression Encoding digital video to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. See video codec and data compression. video compression - Compression of sequences of images. technology allows cVideo customers to maintain image quality while recording and transmitting up to twice as much video as competitive products -- saving costly storage and network bandwidth resources. cVideo is the affordable digital surveillance management system, ideally combining file-compression, image quality and remote monitoring (protocol) remote monitoring - (RMON) A network management protocol that allows network information to be gathered at a single computer. Whereas SNMP gathers network data from a single type of Management Information Base (MIB), RMON 1 defines nine additional MIBs that provide a features specifically suited for the surveillance market. As of Sept. 15, 2002, cVideo headquarters is at 10967 Via Frontera, San Diego, Calif. 92127 and can be reached at 858/385-2000 or http://www.cvideo.com. cVideo is a registered trademark of cVideo Inc. All other products and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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