Boca Research First to Ship and Support ITU H.324 Standard on New Desktop Videoconferencing Product.BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 1996--Boca Research, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BOCI BOCI Bank of China International BOCI Buckner Orphan Care International ) announced today it began shipping its new BocaPRO Video Phone Elite on July 26. The first of a new desktop videoconferencing product family, the BocaPRO Video Phone Elite is the first product of its kind to meet the ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks. H.324 standard for videoconferencing over regular analog phone lines. This new standard now means that like systems are no longer required on each end to communicate. Users can now be assured that Boca BOCA Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc. BOCA Bird Observers Club of Australia BOCA Business Object Component Architecture BOCA Borland Object Component Architecture (Borland) Research's product will connect and communicate with any other vendor's product adhering to the H.324 standard. The BocaPRO Video Phone Elite is a collaborative effort leveraging the strengths of three companies. Boca Research's hardware design, Lucent Technologies' AVP-III Video/Audio Processor videoconferencing chip and MultiMedia Access Corporation's application software combine to create a high-quality desktop videoconferencing product. With a suggested retail price of $399, users will have the option of using their home video camcorder or purchasing a color desktop camera from Boca Research. This new product is ideal for the SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. (small office/home office See SOHO. ) market because it's an economical way to save time and travel dollars for one-on-one videoconferencing telephone calls. For example, regional offices can conduct videoconference calls instead of incurring airfare and hotel expenses. It also provides a unique way to keep the lines of communication "Lines of Communication" is an episode from the fourth season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. Synopsis Franklin and Marcus attempt to persuade the Mars resistance to assist Sheridan in opposing President Clark. open for families and friends. Grandparents can now see how their grandchildren have grown and changed, parents can videoconference with their children in college, and lifetime friendships are enhanced by seeing friends instead of just speaking to them. "The introduction of the BocaPRO Video Phone Elite makes desktop videoconferencing affordable for the general public as well as businesses and it's just in time for the retailers' Christmas buying season," said Jerry Lumpkin, vice president of product management and marketing at Boca Research. "Providing leading-edge communication technology is what Boca Research is all about, and the BocaPRO Video Phone will continue to revolutionize the way we all communicate in the future," he added. Product Features The BocaPRO Video Phone Elite is a PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). bus-based card that supports high-quality connections to the desktop via the ITU H.324 (POTS - Plain Old Telephone Service) industry standard. It provides face-to-face desktop videoconferencing with simultaneous audio/video over a single dial-up telephone connection and will work with all of Boca Research's V.34 modems as well as any other V.34 modem. The BocaPRO Video Phone Elite's on-board hardware provides real-time compression and decompression of audio and video signals giving unsurpassed teleconferencing capability with echo cancellation and up to 15 fps (frames per second). With its five external connectors for NTSC/PAL camera input, microphone input, microphone output, line in and line out along with its modular upgradable design and application software, it's a complete desktop videoconferencing solution. CORPORATE INFORMATION Multimedia Access Corporation of Dallas, Texas builds a wide range of video communications products for the home, business and the Internet. Lucent Technologies is a new company created as part of AT&T's restructuring into three separate, publicly held companies. Its Microelectronics Group, headquartered in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey Berkeley Heights is a township in Union County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 13,407. What is now Berkeley Heights was originally incorporated as New Providence Township , designs and manufactures integrated circuits, optoelectronic components, power systems and printed circuit boards for applications in the telecommunications and computing industries. Founded in 1985, Boca Research (NASDAQ: BOCI) is a U.S. corporation headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida Boca Raton ("bōkə rə-tōn") is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida incorporated in May 1925. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 74,764; the 2006 population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 86,396. with international operations and ventures worldwide. The company designs, manufactures, markets and supports quality, cost-effective data communications, multimedia and networking products to facilitate the transmission and presentation of information on personal computers and computer networks. The Company provides hardware products augmented with software for use in the corporate, consumer and small office/home office marketplaces. Boca's current product groups include data communications (fax/data/voice modems); multimedia (video, telephony, sound, voice and data); networking; video graphics; and input/output (I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output ), IDE and multiport products. The company sells its products worldwide to wholesale distributors, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and retailers. -0- All products and company names referred to herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. -0- In the Internet/email address noted in this news release, there is an "at" symbol between galeb and bocaresearch.com and between brynetts and bocaresearch.com. In the World Wide Web address noted in this release there is a double slash between http: and www.bocaresearch.com. These symbols may not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: Boca Research Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. Gale Blackburn, 561/997-8621, ext. 305 http://www.bocaresearch.com galeb@bocaresearch.com Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Brynett Stephen, 561/997-8621, ext. 315 http://www.bocaresearch.com brynetts@bocaresearch.com |
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