Movi Starter Pack Promotion
The TANDBERG Movi Starter Pack, Express Edition is an all-in-one solution that makes it easy to get started with business-quality video communications. Movi is the video solution to the laptop that allows users to stay visually connected to colleagues, customers or suppliers, no matter where they are located.
The Movi Starter Pack, Express Edition includes 50 Movi registrations, a VCS Expressway Limited Edition with basic capability, 50 FindMe accounts, capability for five concurrent calls and five PrecisionHD™ USB cameras. Together they enable:
- Instant high-definition video communications between employees, wherever they are located
- Interoperable with any existing standards-compliant endpoints or MCUs enabling maximum return on investment
- TANDBERG Expressway technology enables instant communications outside the firewall, including access for home and remote workers and B2B communications.
- Content sharing at the click of a mouse. Collaborate on presentations, documents and even multimedia content.
- A total business communications tool
- Future upgrade options to the traditional TANDBERG deployment
With a video solution from TANDBERG it's easy to start small and grow. You can add additional endpoints and new users to make the most of your video investment. It's the smartest think you can do in today's economic climate.
The TANDBERG Movi Starter Pack starts at $15,900!
This offer is available to September 30, 2010. This offer is not applicable if combined with any other special discounts or promotions. This offer is for hardware only; there are no services costs included. Services should be ordered separately. This offer is available in selected countries. Restrictions may apply. TANDBERG reserves the right to change or cancel this promotion at any time.
Cisco Completes TANDBERG Acquisition
April 19, 2010 - Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced it has completed its voluntary offer for TANDBERG (OSLO: TAA), a global leader in video communications. The close of this transaction, and the consequent creation of an extensive combined product portfolio, accelerates Cisco’s vision of changing the way people communicate and collaborate by delivering simple, unique and interoperable collaboration experiences.
"Today we are celebrating a very important step for our customers in the journey to put people at the center of collaboration and change the way we work," said Marthin De Beer, senior vice president, Emerging Technologies Business Group, Cisco. "We strongly believe that telepresence - the next generation of videoconferencing - along with Cisco’s entire rich collaboration portfolio, powers this new way of working where everyone, everywhere, can be more productive through the pervasive use of video and face-to-face collaboration."
The full TANDBERG product line is now part of the Cisco TelePresence™ portfolio. Through this combined offering, the Cisco TelePresence business provides customers with access to a fully integrated architecture, a comprehensive network-based endpoint and infrastructure portfolio - designed to help provide multivendor interoperability - and a suite of unique experiences, customizable applications and flexible deployment models.
With the close of this transaction, Fredrik Halvorsen, the former CEO of TANDBERG, becomes senior vice president and leader of the new TelePresence Technology Group within De Beer’s organization. This newly-formed group includes three fully integrated businesses that will focus on endpoints, infrastructure and Cisco TelePresence cloud services.
Under this leadership, and with unified product lines, employees and vision, Cisco aims to provide consistency and investment protection for customers while speeding innovation that will positively impact the creation of new collaboration experiences.
Under the terms of the tender offer, and following the completion of the compulsory acquisition of shares, Cisco will have purchased all of the outstanding shares of TANDBERG for 170 Norwegian kroner per share for an aggregate purchase price of approximately 19 billion Norwegian kroner or $3.3 billion. Cisco expects the acquisition to be dilutive to non-GAAP earnings in fiscal year 2010 and accretive to non-GAAP earnings in fiscal year 2011.
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