ComNet '96 New Product Achievement Award Competition finalists announced.NORWOOD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 1996-- ComNet '96 announced the 27 finalists of the fifth annual ComNet New Product Achievement Award Competition today. The New Product Achievement Award Competition recognizes the best and the brightest new products, product enhancements and/or product upgrades making their debut at ComNet '96, the industry's leading conference and exposition exposition or exhibition, term frequently applied to an organized public fair or display of industrial and artistic productions, designed usually to promote trade and to reflect cultural progress. , being held January 26 - February 1 at the Washington, D.C. Convention Center, the Renaissance, Washington, D.C. Hotel. Product entries from ComNet '96 exhibitors were evaluated prior to ComNet by judging panel consisting of representatives from the trade and business press, industry research firms, financial community and academia. The products were evaluated on the basis of innovation, industry contribution, integration with current product lines, migration capabilities and return on investment. Three finalists were selected per category. The finalists are : ComNet '96 Best New Transport Technology Product
Network Service, Inc. ISDN BRI Central Office
Emulator & Protocol Analyzer
OnStream Networks, Inc. CS600 ATM
UB Networks GeoStax/FE
ComNet '96 Best New Network Management Product GTE Government Systems/Cylink Corporation InfoGuard(tm)100 TREND Communications auroraPlus ISDN BRI Visual Networks, Inc. Visual UpTime ComNet '96 Best New LAN & Internetworking Product ACT Networks, Inc. VOICE-PAC400 US Robotics PRI Access System Xylogics, Inc. Remote Annex 6100 ComNet '96 Best New Carrier Product Dynatech Network Element Control MCI Telecommunications MCI Call Manager Teleport Communications Group (TCG) LAN Emulation over ATM ComNet '96 Best New Multimedia & Desktop Product
Alternate Realities Corporation Vision Dome
California Microwave-Mobile
Satellite Products VideoLYNXX(r)
networkMCI Conferencing MCI Conferencing's
Document Conferencing
ComNet '96 Best New Infrastructure Product
AT&T Global Business Communications
Systems MultiMedia Communications
eXchange (MMCX)
Hadax Electronics, Inc. PlusNet 3000- Transmission &
Recovery System
NORTEL DynaTrax
ComNet '96 Best New Switching Technology Product NORTEL Rapport Dialup Switch Teleos Communications Video Router Express Xylan Corporation Omni-5X - Omni-9X ComNet '96 Best New Software & Applications Product FTP Software, Inc. InterDrive NT Server Microsystems Engineering Co. SysDraw Teleport Communications Group (TCG) Telemedicine over ATM ComNet '96 Best New Wireless Product AMP Incorporated AMP Wireless Access Point Hughes Network Systems DirecPC ORBCOMM Data Communication Service To qualify for the competition, products must be making their first appearanc at ComNet '96 and cannot have been introduced or exhibited in the same form at previous trade shows. New products that have been announced within eight weeks preceding ComNet '96 are only eligible. ComNet is proud to have a leadership position as an industry launch pad for new products. The New Product Achievement Awards Program recognizes the importance to the industry and rewards exhibitors who introduce their new innovative products at ComNet. Attendees, as well as our exhibitors benefit from the program. During ComNet '96, attendees and the members of the press will cast their ballot electronically and vote for the best new product in each category, and one will be selected as the ComNet '96 Most Innovative New Product. The winners will be announced on Wednesday, January 31 at 5:15 p.m. at the Ne Product Achievement Awards Ceremony. Gary Beach Gary Beach is a Tony Award-winning American actor, primarily in Broadway musical theatre. Biography He was born on October 10, 1947 in Alexandria, Virginia, and is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, the same school as Terrence Mann, his , publisher of Computerworld, will present the awards to the winners who will be inducted into the ComNet New Product Achievement Award Hall of Fame. The ComNet '96 New Product Achievement Award Competition is sponsored by Computerworld, an International Data Group (IDG IDG International Data Group IDG Integrated Drive Generator IDG Installation Design Guide IDG Internet Discussion Group IDG Inset Dielectric Guide IDG International Dangerous Goods (mail, shipping) ) publication and the newspaper of information systems management. ComNet Honorees Since 1986 when ComNet introduced its New Product Program, over 1,550 new products have made their debut at ComNet. The 10 winners of this year's competition will join past honorees. The ComNet '95 honorees were : Cheyenne Communications, Cylink Corporation, Fore Systems See Marconi. , 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) , MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. , NetEdge Systems, Northern Lights Cable, Orion Atlantic and Promptus Communications. The ComNet '94 honorees were: IBM, MCI, Optical Cable Corp., Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. Computer Corp. and U.S. Robotics (U.S. Robotics, Inc., Schaumburg, IL, www.usr.com) A modem manufacturer highly regarded for its quality products. The company manufactures its own chipsets (data pumps) and often leads with innovations. Its HST protocol was a high-speed, reliable protocol before V. . The '93 honorees were: CACI CACI - A company developing and marketing SIMSCRIPT, MODSIM and other simulation software products. Telephone: +1 (619) 457-9681. Products Co., Crescendo cres·cen·do n. pl. cres·cen·dos or cres·cen·di 1. Abbr. cr. Music a. A gradual increase, especially in the volume or intensity of sound in a passage. b. Communications, John Fluke fluke, parasitic flatworm of the trematoda class, related to the tapeworm. Instead of the cilia, external sense organs, and epidermis of the free-living flatworms, adult flukes have sucking disks with which they cling to their hosts and an external cuticle that Manufacturing Company, MCI, and Telesec. The ComNet '92 honorees were: Compression Labs, Cylink, MCI, Newbridge Networks Newbridge Networks was an Ottawa, Ontario, Canada company founded by Canadian/Welsh entrepreneur Terry Matthews. It was founded in 1986 to create data and voice networking products after Matthews was forced out of his original company Mitel. and Tellabs. ComNet '96 will feature over 140 educational conference sessions, tutorials, keynotes keynotes, n.pl in homeopathy, con-cise characteristic indications for a remedy. and plenaries organized into 9 "views" and 13 technology "threads. ComNet will cover the network evolution in the public and private domain, new network service options, collaborative computing computing - computer , multimedia, and the deployment of specific technologies through technical and hands-on sessions. The ComNet exhibition, which is expected to attract more than 45,000 attendees, will feature more than 500 companies in 170,000 net square feet of exhibition space showing the latest networking tools, technologies and services. Over 350 new products are expected to be introduced at ComNet '96. ComNet is owned by International Data Group (IDG), the world's leading provider of information services See Information Systems. on information technology. ComNet '96 is produced by IDG/MHA Event Management, producers of MACWORLD` Expositions (Boston and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden ), DV/CD-ROM Expo, IMA (Interactive Multimedia Association, Annapolis, MD) An earlier trade association founded in 1988 originally as the Interactive Video Industry Association. It provided an open process for adopting existing technologies and was involved in subjects such as networked services, scripting Expo, and Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). For more information on ComNet, call 800/545-EXPO or visit ComNet on the World Wide Web at http://www.mha.com/comnet/ -0- Note to Editors: To register as press for ComNet '96, contact Cress O'Brien at 617/440-2830 or fax 617/440-0357. CONTACT: Cress O'Brien MHA Event Management 617-440-2830 cobrien@mha.com or Tara Finney Rourke & Co. 617-267-0042 tfinney@rourke.com |
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