Axient Communications Announces New Alliances With Documentum and Telocity; Documentum and Telocity Partner with Axient to Deliver Media-Quality Web Experience.Business Editors PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 2000 Axient Communications Inc., a premier provider of media-quality Internet experiences and services, today announced that it has signed agreements with Documentum, the leading provider of Internet-scale content management solutions for powering e-business applications, and Telocity (Nadaq: TLCT TLCT Tag Lock Clear and Try ), a leading national provider of integrated residential broadband services. Through these new relationships, Axient is expanding the scope of its delivery of Octane(SM), Axient's media-quality experience offering Internet end-users full-screen, full-speed, high-resolution video, clear stereo sound and fast text and graphics. "We are very excited about our new relationships with Documentum and Telocity, two strong leaders in their respective fields," said Michael Gordon Michael Gordon may refer to:
Axient and Documentum entered into a joint marketing agreement in which the two companies will engage in joint sales leverage and marketing activities. By leveraging Axient's network, users of the Documentum 4i eBusiness Edition content management platform will be able to use local access points in the network to speed delivery of content while achieving high-resolution graphic displays and streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. in content creation and communications. "We are pleased to be partnering with Axient," said Dave De Walt, Documentum executive vice president of product operations. "Axient's next-generation network will help meet the growing needs of our customers to address complex content creation and communications requirements by enabling the effective use and delivery of large content objects at high-speeds without impacting quality." Through its partnership with Telocity, Axient will be interconnecting with Telocity's network and increasing its nationwide delivery of media-quality content to reach broadband Internet users. "Telocity's relationship with Axient supports our delivery of high-quality Internet experiences to our broadband users," said Telocity CEO Patti Hart. "By offering the Octane experience to our customers we can ensure that they enjoy the Internet at its fullest potential, with the richest multimedia." About Axient Communications Inc. Axient Communications Inc., a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation headquartered in Phoenix, has reinvented the Internet user Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f experience by delivering Octane(SM). Octane is the media-quality Web experience offering full-screen, full-speed, high-resolution video, clear stereo sound and fast text and graphics. Axient's next-generation network has been designed to deliver content locally rather than across the congested con·gest·ed adj. Affected with or characterized by congestion. congested ENT adjective Referring to a boggy blood-filled tissue. See Nasal congestion. Internet, resulting in a media-quality experience for end-users with broadband connections, fast connections for commerce and priority handling of enterprise mission-critical information. Axient has strategic alliances with Williams Communications Group Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :WCG WCG World Cyber Games WCG Worldwide Church of God WCG World Community Grid WCG Wellington Caving Group (caving club in New Zealand) WCG Washington Calligraphers Guild WCG West Coast Grocery ), NBCOlympics.com, 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. and other partners. Axient is a Cisco Powered Network. For more information on Axient Communications Inc. and the Octane experience, visit www.axient.com. About Documentum Documentum Inc. (Nasdaq: DCTM) develops, markets and supports Internet-scale content management solutions that accelerate organizations' online presences. These solutions enable customers to create, deliver and personalize content of all formats, from internal and external contributors, for business processes that extend across and beyond the enterprise, to all delivery channels. Documentum customers apply trusted content within and between their organizations for online commerce and personalized promotions, 24/7 customer and partner self-service, online exchanges, electronic procurement, collaborative planning and innovation and related e-business applications. The company, with 21 offices worldwide, also offers a full range of global consulting services and programs, including worldwide technical support and education services through its Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. organization. With headquarters in Pleasanton, Calif., Documentum has licensed its products to more than 900 Global 2000 and Internet customers in a broad range of industries. For information, visit www.documentum.com. About Telocity Telocity is a leading nationwide provider of integrated residential broadband services. Telocity improves today's dial-up, or narrowband, experience through faster and reliable services that enhance Internet surfing, shopping and communications. Telocity intends to expand its broadband services to packaged value-added services that may include secure telecommuting telecommuting, an arrangement by which people work at home using a computer and telephone, transmitting work material to a business office by means of a modem and telephone lines; it is also known as telework. , home monitoring and automation, voice bundling and entertainment. Telocity currently provides high-speed broadband services through DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary technology. As Telocity expands its services nationwide, the company intends to choose the most reliable, flexible and cost-effective broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. technologies (including DSL, cable and wireless) available in each local market. Telocity's current broadband footprint covers more then 125 major Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) across the United States. For more information, contact Telocity at phone 408/863-6600; fax 408/777-1451; www.telocity.net, or mail at 10355 N. DeAnza Blvd.; Cupertino, CA 95014. Note to Editors: Octane(SM), Octane by Axient(SM), Octane Access(SM), Octane Delivery(SM) and Octane Enterprise(SM) are service marks of Axient Communications Inc. In addition to historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The company's future actual results could differ materially from the forward-looking statements discussed herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed from time to time in the company's public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, such as those under "Risk Factors" included in the company's annual report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, 1999, as well as the company's other public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company undertakes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements. |
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