IOCOM Provides State-Wide Videoconferencing, Telepresence, and Collaboration for New Mexico’s Universities

Telepresence solution offers powerful remote collaboration tool for New Mexico universities, colleges, and research communities

SANTA FE, N.M.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IOCOM, a leading provider of videoconferencing and collaboration solutions, was featured in today’s launch of eight “Connect New Mexico” telepresence rooms. The rooms will link learning communities across the state of New Mexico. An additional twenty five rooms will be launched in the coming weeks, allowing every university and college in the state to immersively collaborate and videoconference.

“We’re bringing the highest level of collaboration to every corner of the state, giving New Mexicans the opportunity to tap in to the state’s remarkable educational and economic possibilities.”

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson keynoted the launch, lauding the rich collaboration anticipated in the project: “The opening of these gateways is significant to New Mexico’s economic and high-tech future,” Governor Richardson said. “We’re bringing the highest level of collaboration to every corner of the state, giving New Mexicans the opportunity to tap in to the state’s remarkable educational and economic possibilities.”

Today’s “Connect New Mexico” event connected eight new ‘gateway’ telepresence sites using IOCOM’s telepresence capability. The sites are:

• The University of New Mexico

• New Mexico State University

• Eastern New Mexico

• Western New Mexico University

• New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

• Santa Fe Community College

• San Juan College

• The State Capitol

These sites will be utilized by universities and local businesses for collaborative learning, research, training, and business modeling in the areas of energy, environment, digital film, aerospace, and biotechnology, among others.

UNM President David Schmidly commented, "The new teleconferencing abilities will enable our faculty to partner with the other sites statewide, and we will witness its benefits in all facets of our mission - education, research, public service, and as we saw in the demo today, patient care."

The founding institutions for the “Connect New Mexico” program are UNM, NMSU, New Mexico Tech, and Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories. Ultimately, there will be 33 telepresence sites around the state connected by a secure network, all available to business, industry, and institutions of higher learning on a daily basis.

About IOCOM

IOCOM provides powerful collaboration and videoconferencing software, called “Visimeet”, connecting people, work environments, communities, and corporations through video, telepresence, data, and voice. Its trusted solutions work with virtually any Internet-enabled device, scaling from smart phones to immersive telepresence environments. IOCOM’s focus is on delivering the high performance necessary for smooth, high resolution conferencing, collaboration, and shared visualization. Fortune 500 companies, government and education institutions, researchers, students, and teachers rely on IOCOM’s solutions. For more information, please visit http://www.iocom.com.

About “Connect New Mexico”

The New Mexico Computing Applications Center (NMCAC) was approved by New Mexico’s Legislature in 2007 and began operations in 2008 as a resource for applications-driven high-speed computer problem solving. Working closely with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Labs and the State’s three research universities, the NMCAC is dedicated to serving the needs of the people of New Mexico as well as tackling some of the nation's most pressing problems like energy and the environment using high-speed computing.

The NMCAC is committed to supporting the State’s education and health initiatives as well as economic development. The Center has plans to set up 44 remote ‘Gateways’ at state universities and community colleges. Each Gateway will be connected to Encanto and to the rest of the world. Educators, health professionals and business people will be encouraged to use the Center to collaborate, cooperate and communicate to make New Mexico a healthier, stronger and more competitive state.