Broadband Access Systems Executives To Address MIT Internet and Telecoms Convergence Consortium.MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 1999-- Broadband Access See broadband and wireless broadband. Systems, the industry's only company exclusively focused on providing cable access solutions for the deployment of value-added data and voice services, today announced that Abbot Gilman, the company's COO and co-founder, and Pirjo Tuomi, the company's vice president of worldwide sales, will address the MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Internet and Telecoms Convergence Consortium. The presentation, entitled "Requirements for Integrated Voice and Data Platforms," will be a highlight of the semi-annual meeting of the Consortium in Rome, Italy on June 8, 1999. Gilman and Tuomi will address the requirements for new services that will enable cable operators to succeed versus emerging competition. They will also discuss hardware, software, network management and service provisioning requirements needed to support integrated voice and data convergence. "The integration of voice and data platforms is one of the hottest issues facing cable operators as we near the new millennium," said Sharon Eisner Gillett, executive director, MIT Internet and Telecoms Convergence Consortium. "Mr. Gilman and Ms. Tuomi each possess a wealth of demonstrable industry knowledge and achievement relevant to this topic. Consortium members are looking forward to their address." About The MIT Internet and Telecoms Convergence Consortium The MIT Internet and Telecoms Convergence Consortium (ITC ITC (Brit) n abbr (= Independent Television Commission) → Fernseh-Aufsichtsgremium ITC n abbr (BRIT) (= Independent Television Commission) → ), formerly known as the MIT Internet Telephony Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks. Consortium, is a neutral forum for collaborative research between industry and academia. ITC member companies range from start-ups to multinationals representing diverse segments of the industry, including telecommunications carriers from different countries, computing, software and communications equipment vendors, and Internet telephony service providers (communications) Internet Telephony Service Providers - (ITSP) Companies providing IP Telephony. . ITC participants work together to understand and shape the Internet's transformation of the telecommunications industry. Current ITC research focuses on four types of Barriers to the Internet as "the" infrastructure of the future: broadband local access, Internet telephony appliances and applications, global Internet economics, and Internet industry and market structure. About Broadband Access Systems Founded in February 1998, Broadband Access Systems, Inc. is a leading developer of a new generation of highly integrated carrier-class broadband access systems that allow cable operators to deliver high quality voice, data and video services to large numbers of users. Headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts Marlborough is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 36,255 at the 2000 census. The name of this town is sometimes spelled as Marlboro, rather than Marlborough, which is the official spelling. , the company's management team brings years of experience in networking and telecommunications from companies such as Nortel Networks (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NT), Lucent (NYSE:LU), AT&T (NYSE:T), FORE Systems (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 :FORE), Digital Equipment Corporation and 3Com (Nasdaq:COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ). Broadband Access Systems is funded by Matrix Partners, North Bridge Ventures Partners and The Still River Fund. |
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