The Maricopa County Superior Court's "Remote Interpreter Program" has been awarded the 2011 NACo Achievement Award by the National Association of Counties. The Court uses ExhibitOne's patent-pending Virtual Court-Interpreter System (VCIS). With just a push of a button, it enables interpreters to provide full interpretive services on a virtual basis anywhere within the court system, which covers 10,000
square miles.

First implemented in 2009, the court's VCIS securely transmits proceedings to the interpreter who has complete control over hearing and seeing everything that is going on in the courtroom. The interpreter provides interpretation to the defendant and in turn interprets the defendant's comments back to the full court. Interpretation can also be provided for the privileged conversations between the defendant and the defendant's attorney, who both wear headphones to speak
and listen.

The NACo Achievement Award was first awarded in 1970 in recognition of innovative county government programs.

Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking technologies, has recognized ExhibitOne Corporation with certification as a Cisco TelePresence Video Express Authorized Technology Provider.

Only companies receiving an invitation from Cisco can apply for the certification. It is reserved for companies with the industry experience, market credentials and breadth of unique A/V integration skills needed to successfully implement telepresence solutions.

"More and more companies, government agencies and leaders in education are recognizing the power and value that comes from high-quality communications," said ExhibitOne CEO and President Kevin Sandler. "Having such robust capabilities and making them virtually seamless and bulletproof for users requires bringing the right technologies together. Cisco is an integral part of such solutions," Mr. Sandler noted. "As a result, ExhibitOne and our clients benefit greatly from the strong relationship that we have with Cisco."

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As caseloads grow and budgets shrink, many of the country's leading courts are turning to videoconferencing solutions to bridge the gap. One of the biggest cost-saving applications for the technology is remote arraignments. While arraignments often last just minutes, the associated security and transportation costs for bringing an inmate from jail into the courtroom can run into the thousands of dollars. Through videoconferencing, inmates make their court appearance on a virtual basis - eliminating travel and security costs. Another quickly growing use for videoconferencing is for facilitating expert witness testimony and the testimony of protected witnesses such as juveniles.

"Courtroom videoconferencing has some very unique requirements," said ExhibitOne CEO and President Kevin Sandler. "With the multitude of users and the absolute critical nature of everything working first time, every time, user interfaces have to be simple and the technology
very robust."

With ExhibitOne implementing videoconferencing and other audio/visual solutions in nearly 1,500 courts across the country, Mr. Sandler commented that one of the best pieces of advice is to focus on quality equipment. "There are plenty of environments where lower quality/cost technologies make perfect sense," he said. "The courtroom is not one of them."

ExhibitOne will be exhibiting at  

CTC 2011, October 4 - 6  

in Long Beach, CA.

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Budgets being what they are, one might think audio/visual buying would be down in the world of higher education. But according to data from Gartner, that's not the case. With years of experience in working with higher education clients throughout the country, ExhibitOne echoes Gartner's findings.

"A lot of schools are finding student demand is exceeding the capacity of their facilities, their available faculty or both," said ExhibitOne's Regional Sales Manager for Education, Rob Gililland. "They are seeing videoconferencing and other distance learning solutions as perhaps the best way to take advantage of demand with reduced budgets," he said.

Gartner predicts that by 2014, education will reduce its labor costs by 10 percent through the use of technology. Additionally, Gartner says that by 2015, school construction will be cut by half as the result of virtual learning environments being used to better utilize existing facilities.

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