Data Connection Announces DC-Share for Linux.Business Editors/High Tech Writers LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 2000 DC-Share, the world's leading Unix desktop conferencing product, provides high-function, standards-based, NetMeeting-compatible, multipoint, audio/video/data conferencing between Windows and Unix - now including Linux 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 DC-Share for Linux had entered external beta testing with full release scheduled for 2Q 2000. DC-Share is a NetMeeting-interoperable, standards-based, H.323- and T.120-compliant VoIP conferencing endpoint. Sun, 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 HP have all released OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and versions of DC-Share as SunForum, SGImeeting and HP VISUALIZE CONFERENCE. DCL also supplies an AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. version of DC-Share directly to large end-users, and now with availability on Linux, DC-Share becomes the universal Unix conferencing client. With DC-Share, users can -- use their PC or workstation as a VoIP telephone, with or without video -- communicate with people using DC-Share, NetMeeting, or other T.120 or H.323 products over the corporate LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. or the internet -- share documents or applications (including 3D CAD applications) in real time with other participants, including sharing between Windows and Unix desktops -- use whiteboard, chat or file transfer to augment an audio/video conference or application sharing session -- access the standard ILS ILS In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Israeli Shekel. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. directory services popularized by NetMeeting. DC-Share implements full multi-point, multi-cast distribution of audio and video, with audio mixing and multi-video, enabling groups of users to all see and hear each other without the requirement for a separate audio/video MCU (1) (MicroController Unit) A computer on a single chip. See microcontroller. (2) (Multipoint Control Unit) A device that is used to moderate a videoconference of three or more end points (users at computers or groups of users server. "With the completion of our port to Linux, DC-Share truly becomes the universal conferencing client for Unix," said Graeme MacArthur, Director of DCL's Internet Applications Group. "The fact that DC-Share for Linux comes from the same DCL technology as SunForum, SGImeeting, HP-VC and DC-Share for AIX means that cross-platform interoperability is assured right out of the box." DCL is committed to open standards, and DC-Share has been successfully tested for interoperability with a wide range of VoIP, H.323 and T.120 products, including products from Microsoft, Sun, SGI, HP, Lucent and others, both in DCL's extensive interoperability test lab and via DCL's active participation in the industry's key interoperability test events. DC-Share for Linux is currently in private beta testing, and is targeted for public release in 2Q 2000. Pricing has not been finalized, but DCL welcomes enquiries from OEMs, Linux distributors and large enterprises. About Data Connection Limited (DCL) Data Connection Limited (DCL) is the world's leading independent developer and supplier of Conferencing, Internet Telephony, Unified Messaging, Directory, ATM, MPLS (1) (MultiProtocol Lambda Switching) The earlier name for GMPLS. See GMPLS. (2) (MultiProtocol Label Switching) A standard from the IETF for including routing information in the packets of an IP network. , 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 SS7 portable products. Customers include 3Com, Cabletron, Cisco, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, 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., Lucent, Microsoft, Nortel Networks, NCR, SGI and Sun. Data Connection is headquartered in London UK, with US offices in Reston, VA. It was founded in 1981 and is privately held. During each of the past 18 years its profits have exceeded 20% of revenue. Last year sales exceeded $30M, of which 90% were outside the UK, mostly in the US, leading to the company's second Queen's Award for outstanding export performance. More information on DC-Share is available at http://www.datcon.co.uk/conf/dcshare.htm. For information on licensing or distributing DC-Share for Linux, email the DC-Share for Linux team at mailto:dcsl@datcon.co.uk, or contact Tony Downes: PR Director, phone: 44 20 8366 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 . Data Connection is a Trademark of Data Connection Limited (UK) and Data Connection Corporation (US). All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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