Data Connection Adds ITU T.120 MCS/GCC Support to DC-Share for UNIX.LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 1997 Enhancing Application Sharing A data conferencing capability that lets two or more users interactively work on the same application at the same time. The application is loaded and running in only one machine; however, keystrokes are transmitted from and screen changes are transmitted to the other participants. Interoperability with Microsoft NetMeeting Microsoft NetMeeting is a VoIP and multi-point videoconferencing client included in many versions of Microsoft Windows (from Windows 95 OSR2 to Windows XP). It uses the H. 2.0 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 ) today announced that its DC-Share for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). product is now packaged with a pre-integrated International Telecommunications Union See ITU. (body, standard) International Telecommunications Union - (ITU) ITU-T, the telecommunication standardisation sector of ITU, is responsible for making technical recommendations about telephone and data (including fax) communications systems for PTTs and suppliers. (ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks. ) T.120 MCS/GCC multipoint communications stack. This means that DC-Share for UNIX is the first UNIX application sharing product to interoperate with Microsoft NetMeeting 2.0. Products incorporating DC-Share for UNIX (http://www.datcon.co.uk/docs/dcshare.htm) allow UNIX workstation users to participate in T.120 multipoint data conferences with users of Microsoft NetMeeting 2.0 (http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting/) and enable them to view and control applications shared from Windows on UNIX workstations for real-time collaboration over the Internet or corporate intranet. Application sharing from NetMeeting does not require any changes to be made to the application being shared, so it will work with most Windows-based applications. The DC-Share application sharing technology is based on that incorporated within NetMeeting and implements the recently approved ITU T.128 application sharing standard (formerly known as T.SHARE). The addition of pre-integrated MCS/GCC (T.122, T.123, T.124 and T.125) within a fully packaged product means that DC-Share for UNIX now provides a large subset of the T.120 conferencing standards suite. For UNIX workstation vendors, the pre-integration of MCS/GCC dramatically reduces the development cost of integrating DC-Share for UNIX within their conferencing products and also decreases the time to market. For large corporate end-users, it means that they can immediately deploy DC-Share for UNIX within their intranets to provide UNIX T.120 data conferencing interoperable with Microsoft NetMeeting. "Support of international standards in NetMeeting enables companies like DCL to deliver interoperable products or services across multiple platforms enhancing the solutions available for customers," said Blake Irving, group manager, Internet client and collaboration division, Microsoft Corporation. "DC-Share for UNIX enables UNIX users to benefit from the application sharing capabilities available on the Windows platform through NetMeeting today. Combined with our efforts on Windows 95, Windows NT and Macintosh platforms, DC-Share will help provide data conferencing interoperability across all major platforms." Ford Motor Company's Systems Integration Center considers NetMeeting an emerging standard for PC data-conferencing. They are now evaluating DC-Share for UNIX to enable their automotive designers, engineers, and other UNIX workstation users to participate in NetMeeting conferences, both nationally and internationally. "We have design and manufacturing groups spread all over the world and PC and workstation conferencing is a key factor in getting people in those groups working together" said Steve Poltrock of Boeing Information and Support Services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services (Seattle, WA). "Standards and interoperability are crucial to that process and DC-Share will enable us to provide standards compliant conferencing to our UNIX workstation users and get them interoperating with NetMeeting." DCL is committed to enhancing DC-Share for UNIX to support the full range of NetMeeting interoperable function, including: - support for sharing of UNIX applications to PC users - additional whiteboard, file transfer, shared clipboard and chat capabilities - directory support for LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory. and the Microsoft Internet Locator Server - support for H.323 video and audio conferencing. DC-Share for UNIX runs on all major UNIX platforms (including HP/UX HP/UX Hewlett-Packard UNIX operating system HP/UX Unexploded Human Particulate Operating System , 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. and Sun/Solaris) and is available for licensing to UNIX workstation vendors for incorporation in a wide range of general purpose and industry specific conferencing applications. It is also available directly to large corporate end-users via bulk seat, site and/or corporate licenses. Data Connection Limited (DCL) is the leading independent developer and supplier of Conferencing, Messaging, Directory, 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. and ATM portable software products, with customers including Hewlett-Packard, 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) Corp, Lotus, Microsoft, and large end-users such as banks, governments and airlines. Data Connection is headquartered in London UK, with US offices in Virginia. It was founded in 1981 and is privately held. During each of the past 15 years its profits have exceeded 20% of revenue. Last year, sales were approximately $21M, of which over 80% were in the US. -0- Microsoft, NetMeeting, Windows and Windows NT are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. CONTACT: Data Connection Tony Downes, PR Director, 44 181 366 1177 e-mail: td@datcon.co.uk URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.datcon.co.uk |
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