daviko wins first place in the international IPv6-Competition!

Matthias Wahlisch / Friday, 15 May 2009

Mark Palkow
Accepts First Prize

Its PlaceCam 3 videoconferencing application can distribute its video streams using the Internet protocol of the next generation (IPv6). The jury for the worldwide contest awarded daviko the 10,000 EUR First Prize. Cisco came in second.

Prize Winners
and Sponsors

The video conferencing software conforms to Internet standards both current and future. It provides a novel experience in the area of the Videotelephonie on stationary and mobile terminal devices. The Berliners are video conferencing specialists in computer science at the Hamburg University for Applied Sciences and the Free University of Berlin in the joint project Moviecast.

Interview with
the Winner

The award ceremony took place at the culmination of the second German IPv6-competition. The main pillar of the Internet, the so-called Internet protocol (IP), is nearly 30 years old. Then about 10 years ago a standardized successor, IPV6 spread slowly at first but is gaining acceptance. IT experts are united in the belief that relief is urgently necessary because the Internet is running out of available addresses. "With PlaceCam, daviko provides software for Videotelephonie that satisfies the demands of IPV6.", says mark Palkow, manager of the daviko GmbH.

HPI-director Christoph
Meinel and Mark Palkow

PlaceCam connects up to 40 participants through a combination of P2P and server technology. SIP support is integrated into daviko clients allowing them to transmit over MCU based systems like Polycom or Tandberg. PlaceCam is a real collaboration tool through its incorporated application Sharing. The highly efficient H. 264 Codec adapts itself to the available resources so that the software runs also on mobile phones.

The Berlin firm has been marketing video conferencing applications successfully for more than eight years.

With Robert Kahn

Internet Co-Inventor
Robert Kahn

This year's IPV6 Contest was judged on two criteria: "Does the solution provide of a new Internet experience?" and "To what extent is IPV6 promoted and its distribution advanced?" There were altogether 41 applications from 19 countries. The judging took place anonymously. At the prize award, the co-inventor of the Internet Robert Kahn took part.

With Professor
Hasso Platner

Robert Kahn,
Cristoph Meinel
and Hasso Platner