ADVISORY/Lucent Technologies Makes Announcement.Business and Technology Editors ADVISORY for...Wednesday Wednesday: see week. (March 8) --(BUSINESS WIRE) News Highlights: Enterprise Networks -- Lucent is announcing and demonstrating for the first time its iCosm(TM)suite of communications applications. iCosm solutions leverage emerging technologies, such as IP telephony, speech recognition and wireless, to personalize and integrate communications activities with customers and/or co-workers. iCosm Messaging, iCosm Interaction Manager, iCosm Liaison and iCosm Collaborative Video are industry standard software solutions that work separately or seamlessly together to create customer care, advanced communications and collaborative solutions. iCosm software will be demonstrated at CT Expo on Lucent's recently released IP ExchangeComm System, a next-generation, open, distributed IP telephony communications system and other open platforms. -- Lucent will also be demonstrating for the first time its recently announced Web Communications Server for small businesses. The Web Communications Server offers an easy way for companies to quickly set up a Web site for e-business. The solution, which includes the Web Communications Server, MERLIN MAGIX(TM) Integrated System and MERLIN(R) Messaging 2.0 provides everything a business needs to create a Web site, and utilizes Encanto Networks' Instant Connect service for shared Internet access, Internet domain name management, e-commerce payment processing and on-line enhanced business services. The solution also offers users enriched communications by combining voice mail and e-mail in a single mailbox. Bell Labs -- In other Lucent news, the VoiceXML An extension to XML that defines voice segments and enables access to the Internet via telephones and other voice-activated devices. AT&T, IBM, Lucent and Motorola created the Voice XML Forum in 1999 to support this development. For more information, visit www.voicexml.org. See XHTML+Voice. Forum -- which now includes 75 supporting companies in addition to founders AT&T, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Lucent, and Motorola -- is announcing that it has completed a specification for Voice eXtensible Markup Language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. (VoiceXML). Based on existing standards, VoiceXML will expand the reach of the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the by providing voice access to content and services. Standardization standardization In industry, the development and application of standards that make it possible to manufacture a large volume of interchangeable parts. Standardization may focus on engineering standards, such as properties of materials, fits and tolerances, and drafting of VoiceXML will simplify the creation and delivery of Web-based interactive voice-response services, enable phone and voice access to integrated call center databases, and help enable new voice-capable devices and appliances. Speakers: Wednesday, March 8 Unified Messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. Panel Discussion Robert Wohnoutka, senior product manager, Lucent Technologies 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Thursday, March 9 Keynote Address keynote address n. An opening address, as at a political convention, that outlines the issues to be considered. Also called keynote speech. Noun 1. - Forces Shaping the Communications Marketplace Mark De Simone, Global Marketing vice president, Lucent Technologies 9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. |
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