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Article: Panama Canal Documents Historic Expansion With Advanced Streaming Technology from ViewCast.
- Article from:
- Journal of Technology
- Article date:
- October 14, 2008
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As the Panama Canal Authority (Autoridad del Canal de Panama, or ACP) proceeds with its $5.25 billion, seven-year canal expansion project, solutions from ViewCast Corporation (BULLETIN BOARD: VCST) will play an important role in historical documentation and public information. The ACP has chosen ViewCast's Niagara(R) 7224 video encoding system to enable Web streaming of a wide variety of live and on-demand programming related to the expansion project, and to provide training for the ACP's 9,000-plus employees.
"Technology has come a long way since the building of the original canal, when we were only left with still photography and a small amount of film footage ...