Accordent, TANDBERG to Provide Integrated Visual Communications Solution to TELUS

Accordent, TANDBERG to Provide Integrated Visual Communications Solution to
TELUS

Joint Solution will Enable Canadian Utility to Automatically Archive, Manage
and Secure Visual Communications Assets

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Accordent Technologies and
TANDBERG today announced their selection by TELUS, a Canadian
telecommunications services provider, to provide an integrated video
conference archival, management and measurement solution as part of an
outsourced visual communications network for a major Canadian utility.

A core component of the visual communications network is a joint solution from
TANDBERG and Accordent that integrates the TANDBERG Content Server (TCS) - a
network-integrated device that provides a streamlined, automated workflow to
capture and archive streaming versions from any video conference end point -
with the Accordent Media Management System (AMMS), an award-winning multimedia
communications management system.

The joint Accordent and TANDBERG offering provides an automated, unified
workflow within which organizations can archive video conferences and live
events using TCS, detect and ingest TCS-created content into the AMMS, carry
over content metadata to ensure proper categorization and searchability, and
track how viewers are consuming the TCS-archived content.

"Our clients need to do more than push video across the network; they are
looking for a way to extract business intelligence from their communications
programs to clearly correlate the investments they have made in telepresence,
video conferencing and streaming infrastructure with improvements in
productivity, operational efficiency and market share," said Rick Snyder,
president, TANDBERG Americas. "This joint solution provides an unmatched
ability for our clients to track and report on how their audiences - down to
the individual - are absorbing online video communications and correlate that
viewing with action. Together, TANDBERG and Accordent are enabling
organizations to do more with less and precisely measure and report on the
growing value of their visual communications initiatives."

The joint solution will enable TELUS clients to precisely track which viewers
have watched which piece of content, for how long, their workgroup or
geographic origin, and how they interacted with available online polling and
testing functionality. This data can then be measured and correlated with
high-priority communications, training and learning goals. Additionally, the
solution enables system administrators to extract network quality of service
data to understand, and bypass, network chokepoints where packet loss may
occur.

Accordent and TANDBERG will provide TELUS with two redundant AMMS
installations that will be integrated with the client's LDAP to secure and
control content access via viewer login privileges. Additionally, the
solution leverages the TCS for creating streaming archives from video
conferences, the Accordent Capture Station(TM) for automated event capture and
publishing, and Accordent PresenterPLUS(TM) for re-publishing video assets
into the Accordent rich media format to enable viewer tracking through the
AMMS.

The Accordent Rich Media Communications Suite is the only automated,
end-to-end infrastructure for creating, distributing, managing and measuring
the effectiveness of multimedia presentation assets. The company's rich media
creation products include its flagship Accordent PresenterPRO(TM) a live and
on-demand webcasting solution with interactive features, such as polling,
surveys and moderated Q&A; the Accordent Capture Station, an easy-to-use,
room-based appliance that enables anyone to webcast and record high-value
presentations that take place every day in the world's meeting rooms,
classrooms and boardrooms; and Accordent Engage(TM), a behind-the-firewall,
enhanced audio webcasting system that enables multimedia webcasting from the
desktop. The company's media management platform is the Accordent Media
Management System, the first centralized online communications management
infrastructure for ingesting, organizing, searching, publishing and securing
multi-level access to Accordent presentations and other multimedia
communications - including archived web- and video conferences.

About TELUS
TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications company
in Canada, with $9.7 billion of annual revenue and 11.6 million customer
connections including 6.1 million wireless subscribers, 4.2 million wireline
network access lines and 1.2 million Internet subscribers. Led since 2000 by
President and CEO, Darren Entwistle, TELUS provides a wide range of
communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP),
voice, entertainment and video. In support of our philosophy to give where we
live, TELUS, our team members and retirees have contributed $135 million to
charitable and not-for-profit organizations and volunteered more than 2.6
million hours of service to local communities since 2000. Nine TELUS Community
Boards across Canada lead our local philanthropic initiatives. For more
information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.

About TANDBERG
TANDBERG is the leading global provider of telepresence, high-definition video
conferencing and mobile video products and services with dual headquarters in
New York and Norway. TANDBERG designs, develops and markets systems and
software for video, voice and data. The company provides sales, support and
value-added services in more than 90 countries worldwide. TANDBERG is publicly
traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker TAA.OL. Please visit
www.tandberg.com for more information.

TANDBERG is a trademark or registered trademark in the U.S. and other
countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of
their respective owners.

About Accordent Technologies, Inc.
Accordent Technologies provides enterprise-wide rich media communications
solutions that enable world-class organizations to inform, train and engage
their audiences online. More than 1500 customers worldwide, including Unisys,
JPMorgan Chase, Ford, Harvard and National Institutes of Health, rely on
Accordent solutions to create, manage, distribute and measure the
effectiveness of their multimedia presentation assets. Accordent has earned
distinction for its award-winning products and long-standing commitment to the
success of its customers and partners. Learn more about Accordent's
exceptional solutions at www.accordent.com.

Accordent Capture Station, Accordent PresenterPRO, Accordent Engage and
Accordent Media Management System are trademarks of Accordent Technologies.
Other trademarks that may be mentioned in this release are the intellectual
property of their respective owners.

SOURCE Accordent Technologies

Darian Germain of Accordent Technologies, +1-703-608-3404