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8x8 North American Company Profiles
Management
Joseph L. Parkinson Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Y. W. Sing Vice Chairman
Keith Barraclough President and Chief Operating Officer
Paul Voois Executive Vice President
Sandra Abbott Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer
David Harper Vice President, European Operations
Bryan Martin Vice President, Engineering and Chief Technical Officer
Chris McNiffe Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Michael Noonen Vice President, Business Development
Samuel Wang Vice President, Process Technology
Doug Bailey Director, Worldwide Sales
Kevin Deierling Director, Marketing
Products and Processes
8x8 Inc. develops highly integrated programmable single-chip compression and decompression ICs and related
software for video phone and video conferencing equipment.
The company’s family of processors include the following:
• Video Communications Processor (VCP) is a single-chip programmable video subsystem and multimedia
communications processor for conferencing over ISDN telephone lines. In early 1997, the company
introduced a simple and inexpensive video phone, dubbed ViaTV Phone, that contains the VCP device.
• Low-bit-rate Videophone Processor (LVP) is a single-chip programmable video-phone processor for
conferencing over ordinary telephone lines.
• Multimedia Encode Processor (MEP) for powering a PCI video capture and compression board using Intel’s
wavelet-based Indeo interactive video compression technology.
The company’s video compression semiconductors are based on its proprietary architecture, which combines a
RISC microprocessor, an advanced DSP core, specialized video processing circuitry, and SRAM technology.
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