Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. is a world leaders in materials and electronics, situated in Ueno, Taito, Tokyo, with over 50-years experience in the market. The company offers a wide range of surface mount and leaded passive electronic components including inductors, ceramic capacitors, ferrite EMI suppression components, piezoelectric products and other specialty electronic components.

 

Innovative product design and state-of-art manufacturing processes have placed Taiyo Yuden on the cutting edge of electronic component technology. The company currently operates factories in Japan, U.S.A, Europe, Singapore, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand. The company employs over ten thousand people worldwide and reports annual sales of more than $1 billion.

 

To maintain its highly professional services and products to their customers and to improve their internal communication system drastically, Taiyo Yuden looked to videoconferencing as the best way of achieving its communication goals without making a major financial investment. They knew exactly what they wanted when looking for this system: an affordable, high quality, easy-to-use and extremely user friendly interface system. They chose Kedacom because the company innovative products satisfied all of their needs.

 

Taiyo Yuden installed 4 video communication Keacom set-top systems in their regional offices in Malaysia-Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-Penang, Thailand-Bangkok and Singapore. The introduction of video communication has helped the company to make savings on costs, time and loss of productivity. Furthermore, they no longer have to spend most of their day traveling to get to a meeting, thus reducing downtime and also improve the flow of communication within the company. Connections take place in a variety of configurations, from point-to-point meetings to multipoint sessions with up to six other locations. Currently the company uses the video communication systems for Board meetings, staff training sessions, departmental meetings and regional job interviews on a weekly basis.

 

The Kedacom system chosen by Taiyo Yuden is a high-quality set-top video conferencing system which is perfect for medium and large-sized sessions requiring enhanced audio and video quality. The TS6210E endpoint has an embedded Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) which connects up to 6 sites at the same time. The unit is combined with integrated functions such as Gatekeeper, and NAT/Firewall Traversal, no need of deployment of any additional device or server in existing network environment. The Continuous Presence feature enables participants at all sites to view one another simultaneously.