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U.S. attack: PictureTel meeting a need
By Owen Linderholm
September 11, 2001 2:57 pm PT
IN THE WAKE of the tragedies in New York and Washington, D.C., Andover-Mass.-based PictureTel is making as much as possible of its bandwidth and distribution channel available to FEMA, the Red Cross and New York hospitals.
The company is making as many as 100 wireless videoconferencing carts available to hospitals in the New York area for use in telemedicine as needed. It is asking all of its employees and customers to do their utmost to make conferencing facilities available for use in disaster relief by FEMA and the Red Cross.
PictureTel is also asking employees to help however they can by donating food and blood. Lew Jaffe, president and COO said, "right now our active contacts are with the Red Cross, New York-based hospitals that we work with, and FEMA, which is a customer of ours.
"We are trying to be a good corporate citizen," he added. "There will be lots of demand in hospitals in New York for expertise that isn't normally there. There will be lots of people wanting to see that their family is OK."
Jaffe said the company plans to have a list of sites on its Website, www.picturetel.com, from noon Wednesday that will be available for use by people affected by the tragedy.
Looking to the future, Jaffe said, "One of the outcomes of this is that there will probably be a wider base of deployment of video because people will think long and hard about getting on an airplane for some time to come."
Owen Linderholm is InfoWorld Features Editor
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