Brother's OmniJoin
™ Web Conferencing Service Broadcasted the
Communication Between JAXA Astronaut Koichi Wakata and Young Astronauts
Club
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (February 18, 2014)
– Brother Industries, Ltd., and
President Toshikazu Koike, announced that the company's web conferencing
system, OmniJoin
™ , was used at the ‘Konica Minolta Presents YAC Tenku
Future Class 2014', an event held by the Young Astronauts Club – Japan (YAC).
Brother Industries, Ltd., is the parent company of US-based
Brother International
Corporation
.
The event was held to teach the significance of space exploration to children at
seven different venues across Japan who attended ‘Konica Minolta Presents
YAC Tenku Future Class 2014
' . The children communicated with Astronaut
Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), who was on
a mission at the International Space Station, in real-time by using OmniJoin
™
web conferencing, Brother's high-resolution and high-quality audio web
conferencing system.
For details of the event, please visit YAC's website at:
http://www.yacskip.
jp/contents/
( Japanese only )
About Brother
Brother International Corporation is one of the premier providers of products for
the home, home office and office. The U.S. corporate office in Bridgewater, NJ,
was established on April 21, 1954 and currently markets many industrial
products, home appliances and business products manufactured by its parent
company, Brother Industries, Ltd. of Nagoya, Japan.
These products include an award-winning line of Multi-Function Center
®
machines and printers. Brother also provides the number-one line of facsimile
machines in the U.S. and is the leader in electronic labeling, with its full line of Ptouch
®
Electronic Labeling Systems. For more information you can visit the
website at
www.brother.com
