AimQuest/GRIC Alliance and Siemens Team to Provide Virtual Intranet Telephony.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 1997--Milpitas, Calif.-based AimQuest(TM) Corp. plans to resell telephony Internet servers from Siemens Business Communications Systems to Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. . This was announced today by Karl Geng, president 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. of Siemens Business Communications, at AimQuest's GRIC GRIC Global Reach Internet Connection GRIC Government Relations Institute of Canada (industry association) World `97 Summit in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . As part of the proposed teaming, Siemens plans to provide AimQuest with a Telephony Internet Server (TIS) enabling voice and real-time fax communications for corporate Intranets over the GRIC (Global Reach Internet Connection) network. Siemens is also to provide engineering services. AimQuest plans on giving Siemens its authentication, directory services, billing and related software and service products for sale to Siemens' business customers who wish to add Internet roaming Accessing your own ISP locally when traveling abroad. Organizations such iPass have alliances with ISPs around the world that let international travelers access the Internet by dialing up a local telephone number. to their Intranet gateways. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. predictions by market research firms IDC, Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
Siemens' TIS allows voice and real-time fax calls initiated from a communications server to be routed over an IP network. By effectively providing alternate trunks over the corporate IP infrastructure or the Internet, the TIS reduces the number of leased telephone lines required, thus lowering users' long-distance costs. Siemens also plans to provide the partnership with phone-to-phone, real-time fax-to-fax, PC-to-phone, phone-to-PC and PC-to-PC communications over the Intranet/Internet infrastructure. AimQuest provides scalable, high performance, fault-tolerant Internet transaction settlement systems and service for all GRIC members. "The power of the GRIC Alliance is its ability to turn good technical concepts such as Internet fax and Internet telephony into great commercial products," according to Dr. Hong Chen, founder, president and CEO of AimQuest Corp. "We continue to work with high- quality partners, such as Siemens, in order to build an advanced infrastructure that will support our services well into the next century." GRIC is the leading network of value-added Internet communications services, offering cost-effective global roaming, telephony, fax, VPDN VPDN Virtual Private Dialup Network VPDN Virtual Private Data Network (Infonet) VPDN Virtual Private Dial Network (Virtual Private Dial-In Network) and olion corporate users. GRIC ISPs and carriers ions provides integrated global communicationsance and professional/consulting services. an 500,000 customers and a million systems inseb site at http://www.siemenscom.com or call 4G, Hong Kong Telecom, Samsung, Hyundai, Chungwha-1920. Fax: 408/955-1968. Email: info@aimquestRIC and The Global Rea ch Internet Connection are trademarks of AimQuest Corp. All other trademarks are acknr, 408/955-1920 ext. 1162 jon@aimqyour home page. URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com |
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