Call Port Wins Telecon Award For "Most Significant Advance".LEESBURG, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 1995--The Call Port(TM) hands-free desktop audioconferencing system has won the Telecon XV "Most Significant Advance In Audio Teleconferencing - Station Equipment". This prestigious award was presented at the Telecon XV annual awards dinner, attended by over 700 guests from the industry. Judging was conducted by the Teletraining Institute, the organization responsible for setting training standards for teleconferencing technology and distance learning. Designed and manufactured by leading echo cancellation The elimination of an echo in a two-way voice transmission. Echo is created in the telephone company's central office switch when two-wire lines from the customer are converted to four-wire lines for backbone trunks. and voice enhancement specialist, Coherent Communications Systems Corporation of Leesburg, Virginia Leesburg is a historic town and is the county seat of Loudoun County, Virginia, United States of America. Located approximately 40 miles west-northwest of Washington, D.C. , Call Port was one of over 100 products entered for the teleconferencing category. The Telecon Awards criteria include judging a product's quality, originality and functionality, as well as its suitability for the application. Factors such as Call Port's compact design, exceptional audio quality and ease of use all contributed to this award. Products must also have been in service for at least 12 months prior to judging, and conform fully to industry standards. David Powell, President and COO of Coherent, commented: "This is a prestigious award, reflecting the success of our Call Port design and the enthusiastic market reaction to it. Call Port is the first product to provide multiple participants with top quality audio for desktop conferencing See videoconferencing and data conferencing. . We have focused on providing the desktop and workstation conferencing environment with crystal clear, full duplex (Computers) arranged so that the information may be transmitted in both directions simultaneously; - of communications channels between computers; contrasted with "By leaving participants free to concentrate on talking naturally, without the constraints of earpieces, headsets or anything else, they can conference at ease. We are delighted to receive the Telecon Award, underlining the industry's reaction to our efforts." Call Port is the first and only hands-free, full duplex unit for the PC or workstation conferencing environment. Call Port's sensitive microphone pick-up area and speaker output are designed specifically for use within cubicles or modular office areas, providing excellent conferencing facilities for groups of people seated around a PC or workstation monitor. The technology behind Call Port combines sophisticated echo cancellation techniques with the latest advances in 16-Bit audio processing technology (company) Audio Processing Technology - (APT) A company that produces codecs based on predictive analysis rather than frequency coding. . Available for use with a wide range of PC systems, Call Port offers a highly cost-effective solution which is backed by Coherent's unrivalled echo cancellation and audio conferencing See audioconferencing. expertise. Coherent Communications Systems Corporation is a worldwide leader in state of the art voice enhancement technology, spanning echo cancellation platforms, associated network software and sophisticated audio conferencing systems. The Company's transmission products are used globally by major commercial telecommunications companies and network operators, including AT&T Wireless, Cellular One, British Telecom The telephone and communications carrier that provides services in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It used to be a division of the British Post Office, but was privatized in 1984 under Margaret Thatcher's administration. , Cable & Wireless, Telmex, Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom AG (ISIN: DE0005557508, FWB: DTE, NYSE: DT, LSE: DEU, TYO: 9496 ) (abbreviated DTAG) is a telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is the largest telecommunications company in Germany and in the EU. , PTT (1) (Postal, Telegraph & Telephone) The governmental agency responsible for combined postal, telegraph and telephone services in many European countries. (2) See push-to-talk. PTT - Post, Telephone and Telegraph administration Netherlands, and Telia among the extensive list. Coherent is a registered ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 company, dedicated to achieving standards of excellence across all of its operations. -0- Note: Also available via Internet Web Page: http://www.coherent.com CONTACT: Coherent Communications Systems Corp., Leesburg Diane McClelland, 703/729-6400, ext. 311 Georgina Garrett (Garrett Axford), 44(0)1273 441200 |
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