British Telecom Offers Web Conferencing Tools Powered by Data Connection.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2003 Conferencing Division of Europe's Largest Telecommunications Company See telecom company. Partners with Web Conferencing A videoconferencing session via the Internet. In order to interact with other participants, attendees use either a Web application or an application downloaded into their client machines. Leader to Offer BT MeetMe(TM) Web Tools Data Connection Limited (DCL (1) (Digital Command Language) Digital's standard command language for the VMS operating system on its VAX series. (2) (Data Compression L ), the world leader in carrier-grade web and T.120 conferencing solutions, and BT Conferencing, a division of British Telecommunications plc (BT), announced today the conclusion of a successful product launch of BT MeetMe's Web Tools for online collaboration, using technology licensed from Data Connection. Nigel Stagg, Director of BT Conferencing, said: "BT has always believed that the future of reservation-less conferencing must include an almost seamless link between the audio and web collaboration components of a conference call." "There is an increasing demand for simple, ad-hoc meeting tools with integrated audio-web conference capabilities. Our partnership with Data Connection will continue to evolve to provide state-of-the-art web conferencing services that offer the functionality and reliability our customers have come to expect. In the six months since we launched BT MeetMe Web Tools, we have seen a steady increase in both their usage and the number of integrated calls. By all measures, the product has been a great success." BT MeetMe's web collaboration tools are powered by DC-MeetingServer(TM), Data Connection's complete web conferencing solution. Data Connection has been a pioneer in the development of data conferencing Sharing data interactively among several users in different locations. Data conferencing is made up of whiteboards and application sharing and are often used in conjunction with an audio or videoconferencing connection. technology, having assisted in the development of Microsoft's NetMeeting(TM) and Sun Microsystems' SunForum(TM) products, and has since leveraged this expertise in the development of its best-of-breed web conferencing applications. Vice President of Data Connection's Internet Applications Group, Graeme MacArthur, said: "We are pleased to partner with such a forward-thinking player as BT Conferencing. Services like BT MeetMe, which offer tightly-coupled audio and data conferencing solutions today, are strongly positioning themselves to continue leading the industry's growth." "The benefits for business are obvious - faster, more efficient communications and decision making. Businesses will really begin to see the productivity benefits as more and more conference calls feature a data component. We estimate that within the next three years up to 20 percent of teleconferences will have both audio and data." About Data Connection Limited Data Connection Limited is the leading independent developer and supplier of Conferencing and next-generation messaging platforms, including voicemail, email, and unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. solutions. The Company is also the leader in portable protocol stacks such as IP Routing, MPLS (1) (MultiProtocol Lambda Switching) The earlier name for GMPLS. See GMPLS. (2) (MultiProtocol Label Switching) A standard from the IETF for including routing information in the packets of an IP network. , ATM, SIP, MGCP/Megaco, SCTP (1) (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) An alternative to TCP that supports multiple transmission paths. Designed to facilitate SS7 signaling over TCP/IP, SCTP supports multiple IP addresses from the same host (multihomed host) and treats the data , and SNA (Systems Network Architecture) IBM's mainframe network standards introduced in 1974. Originally a centralized architecture with a host computer controlling many terminals, enhancements, such as APPN and APPC (LU 6. . Customers include SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. , Verizon, Colt, Microsoft, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , CIENA, Cisco, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Lucent, Nortel Networks, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , Siemens, Sun and Sycamore. Data Connection is headquartered in London UK, with US offices in Reston, VA, Alameda, CA and Dallas, TX. It was founded in 1981 and is privately held. For the financial year to August 31, 2002, earnings were $11M on revenues of $35M, representing the company's 21st straight year of strong profitability supplying telecoms technology to carrier and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers. In 1999 the company received its second Queen's Award for outstanding export performance. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.dataconnection.com. About BT Conferencing BT Conferencing is a leading business in the area of conferencing solutions. Part of BT, one of the world's leading providers of telecommunications services, BT Conferencing is also a global business, working with partners across the world to provide local conferencing services. As experts in finding "better ways to bring people together", our conferencing solutions offer a new way of communicating when a face-to-face meeting isn't necessary, possible or could be done more cost effectively or efficiently. We offer a wide range of phoneconferencing, videoconferencing and webconferencing solutions. Offering a range of exciting technologies to its customers, with a commitment to excellent service, is the cornerstone to how BT Conferencing does business across the globe. Focusing and developing key applications, ensures that we continue to offer our customers advanced and reliable products and services worldwide. |
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