conferencing videoconferencing founded 1998 headquarters lule sweden key people ceo martin gemvik chairman jan stenberg number of employees n a website www.marratech.com marratech was a swedish company that made software for e meetings e.g. web conferencing videoconferencing . marratech was founded in 1998 as a spin off company from the centre for distance spanning technology at the lule university of technology . founders include dr. dick schefstr m prof. peter parnes johnny wid n prof. k re synnes mikael b rjeson magnus hedberg serge lachapelle and claes gren . 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 h. 323 support was added to communicate with traditional video conferencing equipment . in 2007 marratech s video conference software was acquired by google . most engineers and key personnel have moved to google . 1 some of the key features included in marratech are high quality voice for groups with private audio feature interactive group whiteboard multi party video some of the key underlying technologies are 256 bit advanced encryption standard aes end to end encryption support for windows mac os x and linux on 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 session initiation protocol sip h. 264 video the solution includes a freely downloadable client and a server called the marratech manager . users include alcatel alenia space verizon the swedish police department the swedish army and a number of universities around the world . google has finally bought marratech . 1 google plans its use for their staff members initially and later they might come out with a massive change in the software for public use . december 12 2009 marratech announced that it would close down its website around christmas 2009 . february 19 2010 marratech homepage gives information that it has suspended all its services its server and no longer allows download of either client or server software . references edit google buys video conferencing software . pc world . april 21 2007 . retrieved 2008 11 13 . external links edit marratech s homepage public marratech meeting servers evaluation by kansas s kan ed programme evaluation by monash university review by network computing review by mac observer acquisition by google retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title marratech & oldid 715596390 categories groupwarediscontinued google acquisitionsprivately held companies of swedenhidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran aissvenska edit links this page was last modified on 16 april 2016 at 20 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view