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Adding Video to ON24 Webcasts Made Effortless with TANDBERG Visual Communication


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Turnkey Offering Provides Customers a More Impactful Solution for Multimedia Communications

NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13, 2006 -- TANDBERG® (OSLO: TAA.OL), a global leader in visual communication, and ON24, the global leader in webcasting and video communication solutions, announced that they have joined forces to help companies more easily and cost effectively obtain the benefits of video webcasting.

Webcasting has become the preferred method for distributing multimedia information to large audiences, who can conveniently participate right from the desktop. Video significantly increases webcasts’ clarity and effectiveness. ON24’s hosted solution featuring TANDBERG business-quality video provides enterprise organizations with a simple, cost-effective way to enrich webcasts by making them more interesting, personal and impactful.

Adding to ON24’s comprehensive webcast offerings, TANDBERG video systems will provide ON24 and TANDBERG customers with a complete turnkey solution for developing and delivering video webcasts. TANDBERG video solutions offer users an easy-to-use system featuring high-resolution video, CD-quality audio and a split screen format for teleprompter purposes, turning any office or boardroom into a broadcast studio.

“Incorporating turnkey visual communications into webcasts represents yet another innovative way that TANDBERG is extending the market for business-quality video and enabling more productive multimedia communications,” said Fredrik Halvorsen, TANDBERG’s Chief Executive Officer. “ON24 and TANDBERG customers can now capitalize on a video webcasting solution that is easy-to-use and that can dramatically boost the effectiveness of multimedia content.”

More than 500 companies worldwide use ON24’s hosted webcast platform, Webcast Center, for executive presentations, continuing education, product demonstrations, lead generation, and more. In addition to real-time video, ON24 Webcast Center offers comprehensive features such as custom interfaces, synchronized presentations, polls, live Q&A, and online reporting.

“Research has demonstrated that webcasts are more effective in communicating key messages and generating the desired responses when video is included,” said Sharat Sharan, ON24 President and CEO. “With the TANDBERG / ON24 solution, our customers can now easily create high-impact video webcasts to help them achieve their business goals and drive new revenue.”

About TANDBERG
TANDBERG is a leading global provider of visual communication products and services. The Company has dual headquarters in New York and Norway. TANDBERG designs, develops and markets systems and software for video, voice and data. The Company provides sales, support and value-added services in more than 90 countries worldwide. TANDBERG is publicly traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker TAA.OL. Please visit www.tandberg.net for more information.

TANDBERG is a trademark or registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries

About ON24, Inc.
ON24 is the leading global provider of webcasting and video communication solutions. ON24 offers one-stop solutions for internal and external multimedia communications for customers in the enterprise, technology, life sciences, government and financial services industries. More than 500 leading companies including Cardinal Health, Cisco Systems, Credit Suisse, Hewlett-Packard, Merrill Lynch, NCAA, Philips, and Sun Microsystems use ON24 for activities such as conferences and events, product launches, sales training, continuing professional education, executive announcements, and lead generation webinars. Based in San Francisco, the privately held company was founded in 1998. For more information regarding ON24, visit www.on24.com.

“A World of Webcasting Solutions. One Webcasting Provider”™ - is a trademark of ON24.



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