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Video Guidance Teams with Enventis, SOCRATES to Create New Initiative That Opens Door to Next Plateau of Visual Communications
MINNEAPOLIS --(Business Wire)--
Eden Prairie-based Video Guidance (www.videoguidance.com), the leading video conferencing company in the Upper Midwest, has joined hands with HickoryTech's Enventis (News - Alert) and SOCRATES to take visual communications to an unprecedented new level. The partnership provides Internet, data, VoIP and video conferencing services to 69 schools and libraries within a distance-learning network spanning across a 12-county region in south central Minnesota. SOCRATES (South Central Regional Area Telecommunications Systems) provides learning institutions with data and video connectivity that allows for innovative instruction techniques and educational experiences for students and educators.
HickoryTech will install, support and manage the telecommunications and data infrastructure to the schools and libraries in the SOCRATES network. Video Guidance will integrate its "best in breed" video conferencing solution, combining HD video, voice, web, streaming, gateway and bridging services to Socrates.
"We are very excited to partner with Video Guidance to deliver the finest video conferencing solution to SOCRATES," said John Morton, president of HickoryTech's business solutions division. "This partnership is the foundation for us to provide Socrates and our business customers with advanced high-definition visual communications technology and a total unified communications solution from Enventis."
From on-demand, business-quality desktop videoconferencing to fully immersive telepresence systems, the innovative new partnership will offer seamless IP collaboration telephone-like services. High definition technology bundled with an end-to-end network solution will be optimized to create the next generation of communication.
"This creative venture will take visual communications to an entirely new plateau for SOCRATES," said Michael Werch, president of Video Guidance. "Whether the customer is on a desktop or another network, the service will be easy to dial with voice-like features for video, making the technology transparent to the end user. With the click of a button, it's the total solution."
About HickoryTech
HickoryTech Corporation (dba HickoryTech and Enventis) is a leading integrated communications provider in the markets it serves. With headquarters in Mankato, Minn., the corporation has approximately 450 employees and a regional fiber network with facilities-based operations in Minnesota and Iowa. Enventis serves businesses of all sizes across a five-state region with IP-based voice, data and network solutions. HickoryTech provides bundled residential and business services including high-speed Internet, Digital TV and voice services in its legacy telecom markets. The Company trades on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, symbol: HTCO, and is a member of the Russell 2000 index. For more information, visit www.hickorytech.com
About Video Guidance
Founded in 1999, privately held Video Guidance, Inc. (www.videoguidance.com) provides video conferencing, telepresence and audio visual technologies and services that facilitate natural, visual communication. Video Guidance's 2008 year-end results grew an impressive 21 percent over 2007. Strategic alliances include Conference Plus, Tandberg (OSLO: TAA.OL), Polycom (NASDAQ: PLCM), LifeSize, On Stream Media Corporation, Radvision (News - Alert) (NASDAQ: RVSN), VBrick, and Accordent.
Video Guidance was also twice named to Inc's. 5,000 list of the nation's fastest growing private companies in 2007 and 2008. In 2007, the company has been among the Top 100 of the fastest growing regional companies in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and recognized by The Business Journal as one of the "50 Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies" in the Twin Cities metro area. This year, Video Guidance received the "Grant Services Partner of the Year" honor from TANDBERG for helping organizations create teleconferencing solutions in telemedicine and distance learning in underserved rural areas.
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