Marratech
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| Marratech AB | |
| Type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | Luleå, Sweden |
| Key people | CEO: Magnus Hedberg Chairman: Jan Stenberg |
| Industry | web conferencing, videoconferencing |
| Employees | 13 |
| Slogan | Work Better |
| Website | www.marratech.com |
Marratech is a Swedish company that makes software for e-meetings (e.g., web conferencing, videoconferencing).
Marratech was founded in 1998, as a spin off company from the Centre for Distance Spannning Technology at the Luleå University of Technology. Founders include Dick Schefström, Peter Parnes, Johnny Widén, Kåre Synnes, Mikael Börjeson, Magnus Hedberg, Serge Lachapelle and Claes Ågren.
The Marratech prototypes saw the light of day in 1995 as part of an EU project called Multimedia Assisted Tele-engineering (MATES) project.
Marratech's first products, offering voice, video, whiteboard and instant messaging for groups was first released in November 1998. The first release required the presence of an IP Multicast network and was built as a server less architecture.
The solution has since evolved to support both traditional IP Unicast and IP Multicast, high security and multi platform computing.
A distributed architecture is made possible by doing all the processing, mixing, encoding and encryption on the clients, relieving the servers and increasing scalability.
For guaranteed, serverless, scalable data delivery over both Multicast and Unicast, Scalable Reliable Multicast (SRM) is used over the Real-time Transport Protocol, called SRRTP.
In 2004, Marratech introduced support for dialing out to IP telephones, land lines and mobile phones via the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). In 2005, H323 support was added to communicate with traditional video conferencing equipment.
Some of the key features included in Marratech are:
- Supports full interaction within large groups
- High quality voice for groups with private audio feature
- Full featured, interactive group whiteboard
- Multi party video
Some of the key underlying technologies are:
- High grade, 256 bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) end-to-end encryption
- Support for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux on both the client and server side.
- Support for bandwidth saving clusters
- Support for IP Unicast, IP Multicast or both
- Support for H.323 (dial in and out, E.164) and SIP
- H.264 for high quality video
The solution includes a freely downloadable client and a server, called the Marratech Manager. The latter is available as a free server (limited to 5 users) and a licensed server.
Users include Alcatel Alenia Space, Verizon, the Swedish Police Department, The Swedish Army and a large number of Universities around the world.
