ACS Innovations accelerates to 33.6Kbps with new software upgradeable, plug-n-play compatible high-speed data fax voice modem.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 1996--ACS Innovations Inc. announced Monday the availability of its new COMPRO 33.6 data/fax/voice software upgradeable modem for the American consumer marketplace.

``The dramatic use of the Internet for data, voice and videoconferencing demands powerful, dependable faster modems,'' said Barry J. Lebu, vice president for sales and marketing for ACS Innovations.

``Our new COMPRO 33.6 data/fax/voice modem is the perfect product not only for customers' current needs and computer applications, but also for future uses because of its built-in NSP, native signal processing, software upgradeability -- which means that consumers will never have to throw away their modems.

``ACS will provide software upgrades to keep our customers current with any new standards that may come up in the future.''

Some key characteristics and features of the new COMPRO 33.6 modem are:

Full Plug-N-Play and Windows 95 compatibility

- Supports Intel's Plug-N-Play specifications and Windows 95

to make installation trouble free.

Single Chip Integrated ASIC to Support High Speed Data, Fax and

Voice

- Built-in state-of-art native signal processing on a powerful

Pentium CPU supports data, fax and voice modem functions on

one chip, enabling the highest reliability, greatest performance

and easiest upgrading demands of any PC.

Feature-Rich Telephone Answering Device, Speakerphone, and

Software DSVD 

- Feature-rich Telephone Answering Device and DTMF Detection -

Voicemail sending, broadcasting and forwarding.

- Caller ID, Call Progress, & Call Back Security where available

Data Modem Up to 33.6Kbps and Fax Modem Up to 14.4Kbps

- Data Modem: Speed up to 33.6Kbps, downward compatible with slower

speed modems

- Fax Modem: Send and receive speeds up to 14.4Kbps, Class 1,

Group 3 Fax

- Data Compression: V.42bis, MNP Class 5

- Error Correction: V42 LAPM and MNP 2-4

- Supports Standard AT commands

- Enhanced Virtual UART to overcome throughput limitations of a

standard UART (with limited FIFO) used by a standard modem board.

Sustainable DTE rate is 115,200 bps

- Auto Detection and Answering of incoming Data, Fax and

Voice calls Supports Both Tone and Pulse Dialing

Software Upgradeable for New Communication Standards and Higher

Performance CPU

- Software upgradeable to cater for new communication standards

such as DSVD, Radish's VoiceView

- With higher performance CPU becoming more readily available,

higher throughput and new native signal processing functions

can be upgraded by new software release

- True software upgradeability with no performance limitation of

hardware on board (as compared to other software programmable

DSP Modem chipsets which have limited processing power for

future software upgrade)

Low Power Consumption Due to Green Power Management and No

Redundant High Speed Chipsets

- No redundant high speed chipsets such as Data Pump, DSP, UART,

SRAM and ROM found in most high speed data/fax modem boards.

Power consumption is reduced by 65%

Facsimile Services

- Send taxes directly from Windows applications by printing the

document through the ``fax'' driver. Received faxes can be

printed on plain paper, stored electronically, and forwarded to

other fax numbers or e-mail accounts.

Data Communications

- Allows access to on-line services so you can easily transfer

e-mail messages and data files to other users and access

large libraries of information.

Voice Mailbox

- Allows users to communicate even when they're not in their

office. They can call in from a remote location and listen to,

or leave messages any time.

Unlimited Public/Private Fax-On-Demand

- User can call in and select from a library of documents,

access a wealth of information and also forward the information

back via fax.

Professional Voice Menuing System

- The menu system will help users to navigate through voice mail,

voice-on-demand, fax-on-demand, fax messages, and voice

messages without having to refer to the manual.

Pager Notification

- Users can be notified immediately via a pager when a new voice

message is received.

Integration With E-mail Software

- Allows users to easily distribute incoming faxes and/or

generate taxes through Lotus cc:Mail or any other VIM-compliant

e-mail system. Faxes received via e-mail can be easily viewed.

Mini-Bulletin Board System

- Customize your PC as a BBS so that when users call in,

they will be given a list of menus that allow them to upload or

download data files, chat with the system user, and read posted

information.

Sound Card Integration

- High quality playback and recording of voice mail greetings

with any sound card on a PC.

Minimum system requirements are PC with Intel Pentium microprocessor 75 MHz or higher, 7 MB of hard disk space, Microsoft Windows 3.11 or Windows 95, minimum memory as required by the operating system.

ACS Innovations manufactures a wide range of interrelated ``Internet Ready'' products under the COMPRO name, including Sound Boards, Multimedia Kits, Digital Color Internet Cameras, Video CD Players, CD-Recording Media, CD-Recorder Kits and unique, software upgradeable 33.6 Fax Modems.

Its new Compro Digital Color Internet Camera, released in July 1996, is designed for use in Internet-based two way communications, video teleconferencing, and as a digital capture camera for high quality color motion and still images.

ACS' company contact in North America is Barry J. Lebu, vice president, sales and marketing, 888/2COMPRO (888/226-6776); e-mail [e-mail]. Company headquarters are located at 3171 Jay St., Santa Clara, Calif. 95054-3308, phone: [phone], fax: [phone]. The company's Web site address on the Internet is www.acscompro.com.

Media contact is Al Abrams, president, Abrams Creative Services, Tarzana, Calif.; phone: [phone], fax: [phone], e-mail: [e-mail], or: [e-mail].

CONTACT: ACS Innovations Inc., Santa Clara

Barry J. Lebu, 888/2COMPRO (888/226-6776)

408/566-0900

408/566-0909 (fax)

e-mail, [e-mail]

URL, www.acscompro.com

or

Abrams Creative Services, Tarzana

Al Abrams, 818/343-6365

818/343-6366 (fax)

e-mail, [e-mail] or [e-mail]