Marratech is a Swedish company that makes software for e-meetings . Marratech was founded in 1998, as a spin-off company from the Centre for Distance-Spanning Technology at the Luleå University of Technology. Founders include Dr. Dick Schefström, Dr. Peter Parnes, Johnny Widén, Dr. 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 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.
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