Colorado's Higher Education and Advanced Technology Center and Lucent Technologies Form Strategic Alliance to Build Technology Lab.DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 1999--The Higher Education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. and Advanced Technology (HEAT) Center at Lowry and Lucent Technologies today announced a strategic alliance to build a technology lab that will serve as a national showcase for the most advanced data networking, Internet and video communications technologies Noun 1. communications technology - the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry . The Convergent Technologies (company) Convergent Technologies - A company formed by a small group of people who left Intel Corporation in 1979. Convergent Technologies' first product was the IWS (Integrated Workstation) based on the Intel 8086, which ran Convergent Technologies Operating System - their first Innovations Lab (CTIL CTIL Commander's Tracked Item List CTIL Critical Tracked Items List CTIL CSSCS Tracked Item List CTIL Convergent Technologies Innovation Lab (Bell Labs/Lowry, CO) ), as the lab will be called, will also serve as a demonstration site for products emerging from Lucent's world-renowned Bell Labs. Students, businesses and institutions wanting to use and implement distance learning applications and other communications innovations will have access to the lab being built at Lowry, the former Air Force Base. The base is being transformed into a "digital city" for educational, residential and commercial interests. The signing of the agreement, which represents a $20 million investment at HEAT by the State of Colorado and Lucent Technologies, took place this morning at the Colorado State Capitol The Colorado State Capitol Building, located at 200 East Colfax Avenue in Denver, Colorado, is the home of the Colorado legislature and the offices of the Colorado Governor and Lt. Governor. The building is intentionally reminiscent of the United States Capitol. before a combined meeting of the legislature's Joint Budget, Capital Development and Education committees. "The partnership, which includes a $9.5 million state-funded telecommunications infrastructure, will provide Colorado-students, institutions and businesses-with a high-tech applied research environment to advance telecommunications knowledge and use," said Don Goodwin, executive director of the HEAT Center. "This venture is a significant endeavor to create and sustain leading-edge data networking applications for distance learning and to provide students with a state-of-the-art campus-based learning laboratory," Goodwin added. "Lucent's intention to use and maintain the HEAT Center technology infrastructure as a national demonstration showcase is a significant contribution toward preparing Colorado education for the new millennium." Under the agreement, Lucent has committed to support the data networking technology at the HEAT Center for at least eight years. Lucent will provide system upgrades to the network and introduce new software and hardware emerging from Bell Labs to enhance capabilities. The project will include an interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. lab for customers to test various types of equipment and configurations. The mission of the CTIL will be to identify and implement a series of transferable multimedia/visual communications services for "communities of interest" such as students, businesses and educational institutions. Initial applications will include distance learning, work at home, telemedicine ("long distance" medicine) Using a videoconferencing link to a large medical center in order that rural health care facilities can perform diagnosis and treatment. A specialist can monitor the patient remotely taking cues from the general practitioner or nurse who is actually examining and integrated data networking services. "Lucent, with support from Bell Labs scientists and engineers, will help sustain and strengthen the education and communications industries communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. in Colorado," said Dave Schriftgiesser, Lucent's director of data networking systems. "By demonstrating distance learning capabilities and rapid transmission of voice, video and data to various communities, we will help develop a technologically-sophisticated work force." "Distance learning is erasing geographic and organizational boundaries," Goodwin said. "We want to demonstrate how a lifetime of learning can be more accessible to Colorado citizens through this technology. Now, almost anyone can access learning at work or home through interactive video, Internet access See how to access the Internet. and on-line services." Schriftgiesser said the HEAT Center lab will support multimedia devices that handle all forms of communications, including wireline and wireless, local and long distance, voice, video and data. "Through the project, Lucent expects to develop a strategy that brings together all forms of educational information and a rich media content that can be leveraged as a growing network service," said Rick Mann, Lucent's CTIL director. "We want to help develop flexible services that will best fit the needs of a multitude of instructors, students and consumers." Goodwin said user stations will range from simple home personal computers to complex authoring stations used by curriculum developers and instructors. People will be able to access and share information in a number of ways: - Live interaction in a point-to-point connection. - Live interaction via a multipoint conferencing Same as teleconferencing. This is a rather redundant phrase, because conferencing implies three or more participants, rather than point-to-point between two people. control unit. - Real-time remote access of stored information - text, graphics, audio, or video. - Store and forward interactive information via the Internet. - Any combination of the above that will be selectable via a user-friendly graphic interface. About the HEAT Center A Colorado Community College and Occupational Education System (CCCOES CCCOES Colorado Community College and Occupational Education System ) innovation, the Higher Education and Advanced Technology (HEAT) Center at Lowry is designed as a collaborative facility to maximize outcomes. The HEAT Center's mission is to provide a world-class technology learning environment by focusing on four technology areas: advanced manufacturing; information/telecommunications; biotechnology; and life sciences. Currently, seven community colleges and five universities share facilities at the HEAT Center. These institutions, along with business and industry partners, are integrating programs and leveraging resources to create educational and skills development programs that address the workforce pressures facing Colorado today and in the future. For more information on the HEAT Center, visit the Center's web site at www.heat-center.org. About Lucent Technologies Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey
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