NEWSLETTER age the group’s financial and support infrastructure to drive global expansion and service plans. With ever-increasing demands to deliver live TV and video as part of a digital-signage solution across key verticals, combining the respective strengths of the two organizations ensures customers can confidently access IPTV and digital signage as a complete solution, from a single global organization, to meet customers’ specific requirements. The newly formed group of Tripleplay and ONELAN shares a common customer-centric approach, it enjoys complementary cultures, and it will be able to exploit the technical skills, sales, research, marketing and product sets of both organizations, thereby benefitting clients and partners globally. The combined Tripleplay and ONELAN organization will be led by Steve Rickless, Tripleplay’s CEO, with the support of the Tripleplay and ONELAN executive teams. Tripleplay and ONELAN will continue to operate from their respective offices with their current team members.
NETGEAR ANNOUNCES CREATION OF ENGINEERING SUPPORT CENTER FOR AV NETGEAR, Inc. (San Jose CA), has announced the introduction of an engineering support center for AV integrators that deploy AV solutions that utilize IP networking. This new service to AV installers, consultants, manufacturers and resellers is positioned to streamline audiovisual solutions over IP and eliminate the complexity of AV deployments. This dedicated AV-engineering-services team of experts has been conceived as part of the company’s effort to empower those who are conducting installations and designing projects by offering them free network-design assistance, training and installation support. From pre-sales and postsales support, to technical training, to whitepapers and best-practices primers, these services are positioned to help educate technology managers and integrators on how to become masters of AV deployments that require IP networking. NETGEAR has reshaped the organization to address the specific needs of the AV industry and AV integrators. According to NETGEAR, in order to streamline the adoption of AV-over-IP and ensure a successful transition from legacy matrix switching to AV-over-Ethernet, AV integrators depend on having a solid partner to guide the way. NETGEAR wants to be that partner. This new structure for NETGEAR is essentially a design center, encompassing a number of the company’s top networking professionals who are accomplished at documenting, drawing and producing AV architectures.
YORKTEL LAUNCHES SUBSIDIARY FOCUSED ON TELEHEALTH COMMUNICATIONS Yorktel (Eatontown NJ) has announced the spin-off of its healthcare practice to form a new company, Caregility. The new company will be composed of Yorktel’s entire healthcare-practice team and focus on enabling end-to-end virtual care and communication solutions to the healthcare industry. Both Caregility and Yorktel will be separate subsidiaries of YTC Holdings. Ron Gaboury, CEO of Yorktel, will remain CEO of the entire organization, working with each subsidiary’s leadership team to direct company strategy and business objectives while monitoring overall corporate performance. Michael Brandofino, formerly COO of Yorktel, has been named President and COO of Caregility. Ken Scaturro, currently CRO of Yorktel, has been named President and COO of Yorktel.
BIAMP OFFERS UPDATE FOLLOWING RECENT COMPANY ACQUISITIONS Following the recent acquisition of Community Professional Loudspeakers (Chester PA) and Apart Audio (Schoten, Belgium) by Biamp (Beaverton OR), the company’s President and CEO, Rashid Skaf, offered “an update regarding how [Biamp is] working to integrate these world-class brands within the Biamp family.” According to Skaf, “We’ve leveraged Community’s loudspeaker expertise to create our new largevenue sales team, which will focus on providing premium loudspeakers capable of handling the demanding indoor and outdoor needs of commercial, leisure and stadium spaces. The team at Apart, meanwhile, will lend their deep knowledge to our new retail sales group, specializing in audio solutions for small and mid-size venues. All products will be sold through our regular Biamp sales team and supported the same way you’ve come to expect over the last 43 years.” COMPILED BY DAN FERRISI AND ANTHONY VARGAS 12 Sound & Communications October 2019