AT&T demos new simultaneous voice/data technology at Comdex '94.BEDMINSTER, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 1994--Next week, AT&T will unveil another new technology designed to simplify the way businesses communicate. At the COMDEX/Fall'94 trade show (Nov. 14 - 18) in Las Vegas, AT&T Global Business Communications Systems (GBCS GBCS General Board of Church and Society (United Methodist Church) GBCS Ground Based Common Sensor GBCS Green Bay Christian School (Green Bay, WI) GBCS Global Business Communications Services ) and AT&T Paradyne will demonstrate an extension of AT&T's VoiceSpan(tm) technology that provides simultaneous voice and data See SVD. transmission over a single analog phone line. The new digital Simultaneous Voice and Data (communications) Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data - (DSVD) A technique supported by some modems for multiplexing compressed speech with digital data for transmission over a normal telephone line. (SVD (Simultaneous Voice and Data) The concurrent transmission of voice and data by modem over a single analog telephone line. The first SVD technologies on the market were Multi-Tech's MSP, Radish's VoiceView, AT&T's VoiceSpan and the all-digital DSVD, endorsed by ) technology provides users with seamless voice, data and video application interoperability between analog and digital, (e.g., ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. ,) facilities. AT&T VoiceSpan will extend corporate ISDN networks and applications to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. ), thus enabling users at remote locations that do not have ISDN networks to collaborate via their personal computers and telephones with users at other locations who are connected to ISDN networks. AT&T will also demonstrate one of the industry's first T.120 based multipoint SVD conference systems. This system makes it possible for PSTN based SVD devices and ISDN endpoints to support voice and data conferences. "VoiceSpan is scheduled to become an integral component of AT&T's WorldWorx(tm) Solutions offering next year," said Jerry Prestinario, vice president AT&T GBCS. "When this occurs, AT&T will support the largest platform in the industry for simultaneous voice, video and data communications. Through our worldwide intelligent network, we'll provide connectivity to over 500 million endpoints around the globe. "AT&T is committed to making data communication as transparent to the end user as voice communication is today. Our new SVD technology moves us one step closer to our companie's vision of Universal Data Access." AT&T's SVD demonstration will take place during normal exhibit hours at COMDEX' 95, Booth I318, in the South Annex of the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. . CONTACT: AT&T, Bedminster
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