Accord Networks' MGC Named Product of the Year by the Publishers of Internet Telephony and Communications Solutions.Business Editors & High Tech Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2000 Accord awarded for its networking and switching technology and its contribution to advancing the visual communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. Accord Networks, a leading developer, manufacturer and distributor of an advanced switching and networking system that enables real-time, interactive visual communications, today announced that the Accord(R) MGC MGC Mammalian Gene Collection MGC Media Gateway Controller MGC Middle Georgia College MGC Museums and Galleries Commission (UK government) MGC Mississippi Gaming Commission MGC Manual Gain Control has been named Product of the Year by Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC TMC Technology Marketing Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) TMC Texas Medical Center (Houston, TX) TMC Traffic Message Channel TMC The Movie Channel TMC Traffic Management Center ), 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. and Communications Solutions. The Accord MGC is the only system available today that enables visual communications over ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. , IP and ATM in single platform. "The Product of the Year award is given to innovative products like the Accord MGC that deserve the attention of forward-thinking organizations looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. best-of-breed solutions. We are pleased to honor Accord Networks today as they lay the groundwork for the next generation of communications solutions," said Rich Tehrani, group vice president of TMC and publisher of Communications Solutions and Internet Telephony magazines. As intranets and the Internet rapidly become viable for visual communications, the traditional video conferencing See videoconferencing. (communications) video conferencing - A discussion between two or more groups of people who are in different places but can see and hear each other using electronic communications. industry is quickly growing to include diverse business and consumer visual applications ranging from visual chat rooms, visual help desks and call centers to visual business-to-business meetings and personal visual meetings. "The Accord MGC has consistently received strong support from organizations that require reliable networking solutions for real-time, interactive visual communications over multiple networks. We are excited and pleased to also be recognized by TMC, a prestigious organization that delivers timely and accurate information to the industry," said Phil Keenan, senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Accord Networks. The Accord MGC The MGC is an advanced networking and switching system that enables real-time, interactive visual communications. It is the only solution available today that supports the H.320 standard for ISDN-based conferencing, the H.323 standard for conferencing over IP (communications, standard) Conferencing over IP - (CoIP) The IMTC Activity Group trying to standardise IP Telephony through the use of ITU-T H.323. The VoIP forum of the IMTC merged with the H. networks and the H.321 standard for ATM-based conferencing in a single platform -- enabling real-time interactive multimedia communication between two or more audio, video and data endpoints. It has become the visual communications solution of choice for Accord customers because of its high call completion rate, its ease of management, and its advanced feature set that includes six layouts of Continuous Presence, Multi-way Transcoding, Touch-Tone Conference Management and an award-winning, user friendly Greet and Guide(TM) capability. It is the first visual communications networking system to combine a scaleable architecture with an easy-to-use, powerful reservation and management system in a single platform. The Accord MGC includes a high-speed multimedia backplane An interconnecting device that has sockets for printed circuit boards to plug into. Passive and Active Although resistors may be used, a "passive" backplane adds no processing in the circuit. , front-accessible hot-swappable modules, redundancy, online software downloads and comprehensive diagnostics. The MGC offers the highest capacity in the industry. For more information, please visit Accord's website at www.accordnetworks.com Note to Editors: Accord is a registered trademark of Accord Networks, Inc. MGC-100 and Greet and Guide are trademarks of Accord Networks, Inc. |
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