Accord Video Telecommunications Announces Industry's Most Comprehensive Multipoint Conference Management Offering with Conference Greet and Guide and Touch Tone Conferencing.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 1998--Accord Video Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , the leading manufacturer of next-generation network conferencing See teleconferencing. solutions, today announced enhancements to its' conference management package that allows Service Providers and other organizations to offer more reliable and flexible customized conferences. Accord is introducing two new features, Conference Greet and Guide and Touch-Tone The common system for pressing a button and entering a telephone number into a telephone. The first such phones were installed in two Pennsylvania towns in the early 1960s. See DTMF. Conferencing Management, both of which dramatically enhance the participants conferencing experience and increase the simplicity of managing a multipoint Refers to a communications line (network) that provides a path from one location to many. A cellphone is an example of a multipoint system. See multipoint line. Contrast with point-to-point. conference. "Accord entered the multipoint arena with a sophisticated, scaleable multipoint solution that quickly gained acceptance in the market," said S. Ann ANN, Scotch law. Half a year's stipend over and above what is owing for the incumbency due to a minister's relict, or child, or next of kin, after his decease. Wishaw. Also, an abbreviation of annus, year; also of annates. In the old law French writers, ann or rather an, signifies a year. Earon, President of Telemanagement Management of an organization's telephone and telecommunications systems, which includes maintaining and ordering new equipment and monitoring expenses for usage. Resources International Inc. Now, Accord is enhancing its already strong Conference Management features with Conference Greet and Guide and Touch Tone Conferencing -- required in order for this market to reach its potential. Conference Greet and Guide Participants entering a conference enabled with Conference Greet and Guide will be welcomed by a customized video/audio welcome screen. If desired, the user can then be met by an operator and guided through all aspects of the conference. "Taking the technological burden off conference participants during a video conference call is one of V-SPAN's primary objectives," said Ken Hayward Ken Hayward is the member for Kallangur in the Queensland State Parliament. As a member of the Australian Labor Party, he is on the backbench of the government led by Premier Peter Beattie. V-SPAN's president. "Accord's Conference Greet and Guide capability will allow our operators to quickly communicate and provide customized messages to conference participants optimizing the participants' conferencing experience and guaranteeing the end user a high-level of quality of service -- a true differentiator for the conferencing industry." Unlike competing products, Accord's Conference Greet and Guide solution has several requested features including multi-way transcoding, multiple user-customizable video screens and audio messages, advanced operator-attended services and drag-and-drop In computer graphical user interfaces, drag-and-drop is the action of (or support for the action of) clicking on a virtual object and dragging it to a different location or onto another virtual object. call transfer. -0-
-- With multi-way transcoding, conference participants are now
guaranteed connection regardless of the audio algorithm, network
speed, frame rate or resolution being used by the operator or
other conference participants. Previously, video conference
participants with mixed audio, network speed, frame rate or
resolution capabilities had difficulty connecting and
communicating with the conference operator, decreasing the
reliability of the entire conference and often forcing all
participants to succumb to an audio-only call.
-- Organizations can now offer four simultaneous unique welcome
screen entry queues. Although users have had access to welcome
video screens in the past, the Accord solution is the first that
lets people create an unlimited database of their own video
screens and audio messages to be used with any conference.
-- Because of Accord's simple Windows-based user interface with drag
and drop command capabilities, one operator can easily manage
multiple simultaneous conferences or several operators can manage
one large conference. Operators can also easily move participants
between conferences or create sub-conferences for private
conversations.
Touch Tone Conferencing Management The other key feature included as part of Accord's Conference Management package is Touch Tone Conferencing Management. At any time, users participating with any endpoint can initiate an ad-hoc conference, enter a reserved conference, disconnect disconnect - SCSI reconnect sites, and perform complex conference control actions such as changing Continuous Presence layouts and muting muting removal of the capacity of an animal to make a loud call. In the dog this is done by removal of a small part of each vocal cord. sites - all through their touch tone phone. An industry first, Accord will provide Touch Tone Conference Management capabilities through interactive voice response allowing participants to be easily guided through the commands and menus. Interactive voice response creates a simple environment for participants to make on-the-fly conference changes and is yet another tool that simplifies managing a multipoint conference. Prompt assisted touch tone capabilities is required to ensure conferencing is more like real meetings - where participants may need the means to easily enter, leave, or initiate a conference. Until this offering, users needed to know the command menu and were not offered any voice prompting A recorded message that is played by auto attendants, interactive voice response (IVR) systems, message-on-hold systems and other voice processing tools. The "prompt" is a request to input some data; a recording that does not ask for feedback is more properly called a voice "message." . "Accord's innovative Conference Management enhancements dramatically improve a user's conference experience and empowers the user to take control of the conference," said Phil PHIL Philosophy Phil Philippine PHIL Philippians PHIL Philadelphia, PA, USA PHIL Public Health Image Library (US CDC) Keenan, Senior VP of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Accord. Accord MGC-100 Both of these conference management offerings are add-on A purchase of additional goods before payment is made for goods already purchased. An add-on may be covered by a clause in an installment payment contract that allows the seller to hold a security interest in the earlier goods until full payment is made on the later goods. features to the Accord MGC-100 multipoint gateway and control unit, currently being used in service bureaus and customer premise sites worldwide to manage multipoint audio, video and da |
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