AT&T licenses DataBeam's T.120 conferencing technologies.DataBeamR Corp. today announced that AT&T has licensed DataBeam's standards-based software technologies to use in various multimedia communication products and services. DataBeam's technologies enable users in multiple locations to view, edit, and exchange documents and other visual information from their PCs in a standards-compliant environment. Because DataBeam's technology is based on the internationally recognized T.120 standards for multi-point data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. , AT&T tele-and audio-conferencing users will be able to share data using any combination of T.120-compliant applications. The T.120 series of standards for multi-point communications make it possible for vendors' conferencing See teleconferencing. products and services to communicate seamlessly. These standards establish common protocols for data transmission over a variety of network types and define recognized tasks and procedures for shared whiteboarding applications. AT&T (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :T) provides communications services and products, as well as network equipment and computer systems to businesses, consumers, communications services providers and government agencies. To meet consumers' preferences for a comprehensive selection of communications, information and entertainment services, AT&T recently has added cellular, paging, and on-line services to its portfolio. The AT&T home page on the World Wide Web may be contacted at http://www.att.com. DataBeam Corp., headquarters in Lexington, Ky., is the leading supplier of standards-based collaborative software This is a list of collaborative software (or list of groupware) applications. Wiki software is on a list of wiki software. Open source or free software The following are open source or free software applications. technologies and developers' tools. The company's award- winning Collaborative Computing computing - computer Toolkit Series (CCTS CCTS Combat Crew Training Squadron CCTS Combat Crew Training School CCTS Contractor Cost Tracking System CCTS Conseil Canadien sur le Tabagisme et la Santé (Canadian Council on Smoking and Health) TM) provides real-time collaboration capabilities to communications, networking, telephony Meaning "sound over distance," it refers to electronically transmitting the human voice. In the beginning, telephony dealt only with analog signals in the circuit-switched networks of the telephone companies. , conferencing and gaming products. DataBeam's related multi-point application software, FarSiteR, is used by Fortune 500 companies and major organizations worldwide. DataBeam was founded in 1983 and is privately held. -0- FarSite and DataBeam are registered trademarks and CCTS is a trademark of DataBeam Corp. CONTACT: AT&T Steven Plavny 908/658-5084 (Office) 610/867-4965 (Home) or DataBeam Corp. Becky Taylor 606/245-3517 (Office) |
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