Two new Teleplace press releases
USDA Awards Contract for Teleplace as a vGov Virtual World Platform
Teleplace to Provide Secure Virtual World Environment for Federal Government Agencies
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – May 12, 2010 – Teleplace, Inc., a leading provider of trusted collaboration solutions, today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a contract for the Teleplace secure virtual workspace platform for use in the vGov virtual world project. Teleplace teamed with Three Wire Systems, LLC, as the prime contractor, to win the contract award (AG-3142-C-10-0030), which will provide the USDA and its vGov agency partners: U.S. Air Force, Department of Homeland Security, National Defense University and U.S. Department of State with virtual worlds software and services. vGov is a federal government interagency virtual world project that is providing a secure virtual world environment for use in government-wide solutions.
“Teleplace secure virtual workspaces are already in use by U.S. government agencies, such as the Air Force, Army, Navy and Department of Veterans Affairs, for advanced training and collaboration,” said Teleplace CEO, Greg Nuyens. “We look forward to our involvement in vGov, which will extend the significant benefits of virtual world implementations to many government users.”
Teleplace is for government agencies and large corporations that want to deploy powerful distributed training, collaboration and project management virtual workspaces that are easy to deploy and use. Teleplace is the only enterprise-class collaboration solution that enables cross-platform application sharing both behind the firewall and in the cloud. The unique vPresence(tm) technology in Teleplace securely combines VoIP, chat, and video with a virtual application command center to accelerate data-centric collaboration.
“The USDA contract award is an important virtual worlds project win and we look forward to more opportunities to work together with Teleplace to provide government agencies with software and services that meet their strategic initiatives,” said Dan Frank, managing partner of Three Wire. “Having cost-effective, award-winning virtual worlds solutions, and a partner like Teleplace that is easy to work with, allows us to be responsive to the government's needs and has enabled us to win multiple contract awards.”
For the vGov project, Teleplace will leverage its extensive enterprise integration capabilities to integrate virtual worlds technologies with the USDA's IT infrastructure. The Teleplace platform already includes a broad range of enterprise-class capabilities such as support for Active Directory and LDAP, end-to-end encryption, pervasive authentication and access controls, and support for a wide range of enterprise applications and document formats.
For more information about Teleplace, visit www.teleplace.com.
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U.S. Distance Learning Association, Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge, Air Force Education and Training Recognize Teleplace Virtual Workspaces
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – May 11, 2010 – Teleplace™ Inc., a leading provider of trusted collaboration solutions, today announced that three of its customers have recently received awards for their innovative use of the company's virtual workspaces for distance learning, virtual care coaching and online training programs.
- The U.S. Distance Learning Association announced last week that the Project Based Learning (PBL) Lab at Stanford University won a 21st Century Award for Best Practices in Distance Learning Distinction. The award recognized its Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) Global Teamwork course, which uses Teleplace to enable global, cross-university teams to collaborate virtually.
- This March, the U.S. Army Simulation & Training Technology Center named VetAdvisor® Virtual Room, from Teleplace customer Three Wire Systems, a winner of its Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge for best collaboration in a virtual world by a government contractor.
- In January, the U.S. Air Force presented the 2009 Learning Innovation Award in Training to the 81st Training Wing, Keesler Air Force Base, for a 3D immersive environment built using Teleplace.
“We congratulate our customers on winning these three prestigious awards for the innovative virtual workspaces they've created with Teleplace,” said Greg Nuyens, CEO of Teleplace. “The use of Teleplace for online learning and training, remote collaboration and distributed project management has accelerated dramatically, and organizations are demonstrating huge mission effectiveness and productivity benefits from their deployments.”
