Cambridge visual networks
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Introduction
Cambridge Visual Networks Limited is a private limited company based in Cambridge, UK, and first registered in 2007. Trading under the name Camvine, it provides cloud-based digital signageDigital signage
Digital signage is a form of electronic display that shows television programming, menus, information, advertising and other messages. Digital signs can be found in public and private environments, such as retail stores, hotels, restaurants and corporate buildings.Digital signage Displays are most...
. CODA Content Delivery Architecture
CODA Content Delivery Architecture
- Introduction :CODA - Content Delivery Architecture - from Cambridge Visual Networks Limited is both a digital signage product and a platform. The product is a media player with a ‘drag and drop’ web-based content management system...
, its cloud-based digital signage platform, is available globally via a network of channel partners.
History
Camvine was established by Dr Quentin Stafford-FraserQuentin Stafford-Fraser
James Quentin Stafford-Fraser was instrumental in the creation of the Trojan room coffee pot: the first webcam. He wrote the XCoffee client program which allowed the state of the coffee pot to be displayed on a screen....
and Dr Michael Dales in 2007.
In 2010, Dan Clemens was appointed as the company's CEO and Stafford-Fraser became the company's chief scientist.
Writer, academic and broadcaster Professor John Naughton
John Naughton
John Naughton is an Irish academic, journalist and writer based in the United Kingdom since 1968. He has worked at the Open University since 1972, and has held the title of Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology since 2006....
is a non-executive director of the company.