Accord Networks' Jules L. DeVigne, Chairman and CEO, to speak at CIBC World Markets Fifth Annual Israeli Investor Conference.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 2000 Accord Networks (Nasdaq: ACCD ACCD Alamo Community College District (Texas) ACCD Art Center College of Design (Los Angeles, California) ACCD Alberta Committee of Citizens with Disabilities (Canada) ) the leading manufacturer of a family of visual and voice networking products called V2IPERA(TM), announced today that Jules L. DeVigne, Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , will be speaking at CIBC's World Markets Fifth Annual Israeli Investor Conference, on Wednesday, November 29 at 8:30 am. The conference is being held at the Marriott East Side Hotel in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . CIBC CIBC Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce CIBC Centres Interinstitutionnels de Bilan de Compétences CIBC Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control (Trinidad) CIBC Commercial International Brokerage Company expects the conference to draw more than 300 people. Mr. DeVigne will be discussing Accord's leading position in the IP voice and visual communications market, including how the Company is making Rich Media Communications a truly useable day-to-day method of communication. Rich Media is a way to add value to business meetings, personal meetings, classrooms and business-to-consumer communications. It uses a combination of voice, interactive video, streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. and 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. to achieve a level of communication, understanding, and productivity that is simply not possible with either voice or video on their own. Accord(R) has won several awards from leading industry organizations including Frost and Sullivan and the Publishers of Internet Telephony Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks. . The Company's products are being deployed around the world for IP voice and visual communications in several industries including education, healthcare, finance, law and within many government agencies. About Accord Networks Accord Networks is the leading manufacturer of visual and voice networking products that empower Rich Media Communications over IP, ATM and ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. networks. The V2IPERA product line includes network switches, conference bridges, gateways and management systems. Accord's award winning technology makes it easy for two or more people to participate in Rich Media Communication sessions without having to know the technical characteristics of their network or their video- or voice-enabled system. These systems today could be an Internet telephone, regular telephone, video-PC or videoconferencing A real time video session between two or more users or between two or more locations. Although the first videoconferencing was done with traditional analog TV and satellites, inhouse room systems became popular in the early 1980s after Compression Labs pioneered digitized video systems system. When integrated into a network solution, Accord's products are uniquely positioned to solve many problems faced by network designers today such as dealing with multiple speeds and feeds, multiple protocols, multiple networks and QoS issues. All of Accord's solutions are managed and controlled under a common management suite. Accord's solutions are used both by end users and by service providers who are offering outsourced solutions to end users. Service providers offering these services include RBOCs, CLECs, ISPs and ASPs. Accord is a registered trademark and V2IPERA is a trademark of Accord Networks. This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, delay in product development, general business conditions in the industry, changes in demand for products, the timing and amount or cancellation of orders and other risks detailed from time to time in Accord Networks' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Accord Networks' Form F-1 registration statement. |
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