Marratech

Marratech is a Swedish company which conceives and markets a Logiciel groupware under the same name. Marratech is the fruit of a research project initiated in 1995 in the Center for Technology Distance-Spanning with the university of Luleå in Sweden with the support of Ericsson and Telia.

Marratech (www.marratech.com) is a system of collaboration on line or virtual office which consists of a part paying software “waiter” and a part software “customer” downloadable free and unbounded on Internet.

The Marratech system combines

  • the voice on IP (VoIP) `full duplex' of 16Khz and without delay allowing of the conferences Web (not to not or multipoint);

  • video

    for all the participants (codecs H264 or H261);

  • of the tools for collaboration: interactive white table with tools of annotation

  • a file-sharing and documents: share applications, presentations in line etc;

  • of the vocal conversations and public and private “cat”;

  • a possibility of recording the meetings on PC, put aside private conversations and “cat”;

  • participation without or with lecturer;

  • an encryption of “end in end” with 256 bytes AES for all the communications, SSL for the identification of the waiter and LDAP/Active Directory and passwords for the access to the rooms;

  • the possibility of taking part with a telephone SIP or simple (audio only) or the possibility of taking part with a system of traditional videoconference (H323 or ISDN);

  • simple management of Fire wall X and NAT;

  • compatibility with the protocols of networks multicast, unicast and `hybrid' multicast/unicast;

The software customers and waiter of Marratech support the operating systems: Linux, Windows and Macintosh. Marratech being a Java system had software customers and waiter for the system of expolitation Solaris, but fault of request this operating system is not supported any more.

The company proposes free trial periods of the paying version as well as a freeware limited to five users into simultaneous.

Marratech counts already hundreds of the customers, in particular in the Scandinavian countries and in the United States. In France, one finds the Groupe of the schools of the mines, ENS of Cachan, FESIA/ISARA, the Institut Laue-Langevin, the Académie Bordeaux, the Academy Aix-Marseilles, Alcatel Space, EADS Défense and safety, Selecta, Inserm, Cyberbases of the Ville of Pau, the Ministère of Agriculture and of Fishing (Cnerta), the Ministère of Defense, Hautes-Alpes Développement, CCI of Le Havre, the Air force, etc Marratech are used by European projects Eurostemcell (Biology), Twister (Satellite and wi-fi with 37 sites in France), Pascal (57 universities for research in artificial intelligence), Europlastics (first industrial European diploma).

On a worldwide scale, Marratech counts the universities of PEN State, of California and Stanford in the USA; of Dundee, Édinburgh and Warwick to the United Kingdom and the international large accounts like Ericsson, Apple, Telia, Verizon, Touched Telecom, AIM, ABN Amro, Brio, Utfors, Targus, Nitel, Euro-IX, Deloitte & Touche, Delphi Electronics, Telework Consortium, TNO, Swedish Airforce, Swedish Police, Police Superintendants off England & Wales, etc

External bonds

  • the banner page of Marratech
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