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Barco Buys Wireless Company AWIND

logo-barco-0213Without much fan fair, Barco bought one of the leading wireless transmission (wireless high-resolution video and audio) company today for $7.1 million dollars. AWIND, based in Taiwan, was founded in 2003 and employs about 60 people. Currently, it’s the technology that’s used in the majority of the projector manufacturers that do wireless video and audio transmission (e.g., EPSON, Sharp and Sony). AWIND’s wireless transmission system includes its own branded “black box” hardware, embedded firmware, wireless networking and software for Windows, Mac, Mobile and Linux. The system supports resolutions up 2048×1536. You may also know AWIND from its USB dongle called WiGA, which allows for video and audio from a Mac or PC via a USB port to a projector or HDTV:http://www.awindinc.com/products_wiga_wga_120.html

Obviously Barco will leverage AWIND for its ClickShare strategy. This is a good move for Barco since well over 65 percent of the wireless video and audio transmission systems (without Apple’s AirPlay) on the market are using the AWIND technology.

If you want to see all the products AWIND makes, go here:http://www.awindinc.com/products_all.html

Here is where you can see Barco’s ClickShare: http://www.barco.com/clickshare

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