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Description: The ViewCast Company began its business in 1994. The full name of the company is ViewCast.com, Inc, but it is more popularly known as ViewCast. Its offices are located in Plano, Texas.

The current Chairman of the company is George C. Platt. David T. Stoner is its current President, CEO and Director. The Chief Financial Officer and SVP for Finance and Administration is Laurie L. Latham.

ViewCast announced a revenue increase of 14.40% in the previous year. In 2007 it posted an earning of about 16 million US dollars. Its top competitors are Optibase Ltd., Pinnacle Systems, Inc., and Hauppauge Digital, Inc.

ViewCast designs and produces devices and solutions for video communications. These solutions are used to deliver, capture, and transmit video files and content. The company deals directly with end-consumers and provides its services and solutions to health care providers, telecom companies, government agencies, schools, financial service companies and content delivery specialists. The products and services are sold by the company itself and through other companies which act as its distributors and resellers.

ViewCast entered an agreement with Muticast Media Technologies in 2007. Multicast is a service provider specializing in delivering live and on-demand video content over the Internet. This agreement allowed Multicast to bundle ViewCast’s Niagara streaming media devices with its own turnkey streaming and service support packages. ViewCast sent its Niagara encoders to Multicast so that they can be distributed with Multicast services. The products were then sold via Multicast distribution lines and used by their clients.

ViewCast products are also used to distribute different kinds of media straight to people’s homes. In 2008, ViewCast’s Niagara streaming media encoder was utilized to distribute public, educational and government access TV programming. The device was used to provide government approved TV content to Internet Protocol TV devices. Niagara ports the content to AT&T’s U-verse residential IPTV service. This was used in West Allis city in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

ViewCast technology was also used in streaming live video coverage of the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008. Other live sports events were also streamed using ViewCast encoders. Some of the games streamed live by ViewCast were the Amir Khan lightweight boxing match in June 2008, and the Liverpool FC football match in July 2008.

The Niagara streaming systems are ViewCast’s most popular products. This system includes media encoders and servers. These are used to stream video data over the Internet and other corporate networks.

Another ViewCast product is the Osprey video card. This device is used as a standard in the streaming media industry. This equips computer systems to capture and digitize analog video signals.

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