Best of Show Award Given to Octave's MeetAbout At Telecon West 2001 Anaheim.Business/Technology Editors NASHUA, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2001 Prestigious Best Service Provider Product Award Recognizes Innovative New Product from Octave Communications; Product Designed To Create New Markets for Instant Group Conversation Best of Show in the Conferencing for Service Provider category was awarded to MeetAbout(TM) from Octave Communications(R) at Telecon West, Anaheim, California “Anaheim” redirects here. For Annaheim, see Annaheim, Saskatchewan. Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California, located 28 miles southeast of Los Angeles. . More than 60 companies demonstrated and exhibited products at Telecon West, organized by Advanstar Communications, a leading show and conference for enhanced communications solutions. MeetAbout is the world's first product for creating instant group conversations for wireless and wired devices. With the press of a few buttons or with voice commands, users can immediately connect with an entire team, family, or friends at once. There is no need to reserve conference ports or to establish a specified meeting time. The product takes advantage of Octave's multi-protocol multi-device audio bridge, to allow group conversations that span devices such as cellular phones, wireline phones, and PCs using Micrsoft Windows XP The previous client version of Windows. XP was a major upgrade to the client version of Windows 2000 with numerous changes to the user interface. XP improved support for gaming, digital photography, instant messaging, wireless networking and sharing connections to the Internet. . To help locate group members who have multiple devices, MeetAbout obtains presence information from leading instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or services, such as AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). , ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. , and Yahoo!, and can detect whether a cellular phone is turned on. Examples of users include management teams, sales teams, disaster recovery teams, community associations, and family members. Industry experts reviewed online submissions and evaluated this year's winners from over 200 entries. The awards were given to companies who have built or utilized a collaborative system that delivers outstanding service. "We believe that this award recognizes that our MeetAbout product will enable service providers to offer new innovative solutions that will expand their markets and generate new revenues," said Roger Matus, chief marketing officer, Octave Communications. "It is very gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. that our newly introduced product is receiving such immediate market validation by industry experts at this influential industry show." MeetAbout is a flexible, scalable, open platform. It is a next-generation system that enables carriers deploying the product to quickly offer subscribers an extensive, robust set of instant group conversation services that integrate easily with today's carrier networks and with emerging GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. and 3G packet-based networks. MeetAbout is designed to provide these services for three primary markets: -- Wireline and wireless service providers who are 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. new subscriber services that increase minutes on their networks; -- Wireless operators looking to deliver "always on, always available" instant communications services to consumers and corporate customers; -- Conferencing service providers interested in expanding their services; and, -- Wireless application service providers (ASPs)/conference service providers (CSPs) looking to increase revenue by providing high-availability turnkey solutions. About Advanstar Communications Advanstar Communications Inc. is a worldwide business information company serving specialized markets with high-quality information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. and integrated marketing solutions. Advanstar has 103 top business publications, 84 tradeshows and conferences, and a wide range of direct marketing, database and reference products and services. Advanstar also offers Internet products that complement and build on Advanstar's existing publications, tradeshows and marketing services products. Advanstar serves targeted market sectors in such industries as art, automotive, beauty, collaboration/e-learning, CRM/call center, digital media, entertainment/marketing, fashion & apparel, healthcare, internet/e-business, manufacturing and processing, pharmaceutical, powersports, science, telecommunications and travel/hospitality. The company has more than 1,500 employees and currently operates from multiple offices in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , Europe and Asia About Octave Octave is pioneering next-generation infrastructure technology that enables wireless carriers and service providers to deliver dynamic, instant group conversation. Privately held and headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire Nashua is a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA. As of the 2000 census, Nashua had a total population of 86,605[1], making it the second largest city in the state after Manchester. As of 2005, the population is estimated to be 87,986. , the company leverages a cross section of communications technologies: voice conferencing, mobility, presence, speech recognition and voice over IP (VoIP). With Octave's innovative hardware platform and software applications, service providers can deliver new and differentiated group conversation services that increase carrier revenue and impact the way people communicate. Octave products are available through a worldwide direct sales force and resellers. For more information on the company and its products, visit our web site at www.octavecomm.com, email us at info@octavecomm.com or call 603.459.5200. All company, brand, product, and service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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