PictureTel Corp.

The PictureTel Corporation was a beheimatetes in Massachusetts company that developed systems for video telephony over circuit-switched communication channels. Early precursors of today, based on frequency transformation and motion prediction video formats were constructed for the case of PictureTel, called C-2000 and C- 3,000. Here also the Siren series audio formats were developed on which the ITU- T standards G.722.1 and G.719 are based.

The company was founded on 13 August 1984 by Brian L. Hinman, Jeffrey G. Bernstein and David Staelin as " PicTel Corporation ". The three had met in the 1970s in a graduate school of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On 8 November 1984, the company went public. In May 2001, the acquisition was announced by the rival company Polycom for about 362 million dollars and completed in October.

Links and further sources

• Former website on picturetel.com, via Internet Archive
• PictureTel Corp.. History ( English)