DataBeam's technology enables 14 teleconferencing vendors at industry-wide testing event; 70 percent of participating vendors at Event-120 use DataBeam's T.120 development toolkits.LEXINGTON, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 1996-- DataBeam today announced that its T.120 toolkits enabled 70 percent of the vendors participating in Event-120 last week. At the three-day industry-wide testing event, vendors demonstrated interoperability of T.120-based multi-point data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. products and services. Fourteen out of 20 Event-120 participants embed DataBeam's award-winning Collaborative Computing Toolkit Series (CCTS CCTS Combat Crew Training Squadron CCTS Combat Crew Training School CCTS Contractor Cost Tracking System CCTS Conseil Canadien sur le Tabagisme et la Santé (Canadian Council on Smoking and Health) ) for standard-based data collaboration See data conferencing. . Products included desktop operating systems, multimedia bridging systems and videoconferencing applications, as well as conferencing services. DataBeam, a co-sponsor of Event-120, tested its developers toolkits, the neT.120 Conference Server software, which began shipping last week, and its FarSite document conferencing application. The results of the Event-120 testing program were released today by the International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium (body) International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium - (IMTC) A non-profit corporation formed in September 1994 comprising more than 150 companies from around the world. (IMTC (International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium, San Ramon, CA, www.imtc.org) An international membership organization founded in 1993 as Consortium for Audiographics Teleconferencing Standards (CATS). ), organizer of the event. At the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. ) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, vendors conducted formal tests to ensure that their T.120-compliant products worked with other vendors' T.120 products. "As the first company to offer T.120-based products, DataBeam is encouraged by the variety and sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. of multi-point products that interoperate," said David Panos, DataBeam's vice president of marketing. "Open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced are a win for end users and vendors alike and will help spur the growth of real-time, multi-point applications." DataBeam's Collaborative Computing Toolkit Series is a set of toolkits that allow third-party developers to incorporate real-time collaboration capabilities into conferencing, telecommunications, and networking hardware Networking hardware typically refers to equipment facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, this includes routers, switches, access points, network interface cards and other related hardware. products. The toolkits, which provide open system- and application-level protocols, enable developers to embed T.120-compliant data sharing capabilities into new or existing products and services. The toolkits have been licensed by more than 40 vendors. DataBeam Corp., headquartered in Lexington, Ky., is the leading supplier of standards-based collaborative software and developers' tools for the Internet, corporate intranets, and telecommunications networks. The company's award-winning toolkits enable communications, networking, telephony, conferencing and gaming products with real-time collaboration capabilities. DataBeam's FarSite software and the neT.120 Conference Server are used by Fortune 500 companies and major organizations worldwide. DataBeam was founded in 1983 and is privately held. Company news and product information is available at World Wide Web site http://www.databeam.com. -0- FarSite and DataBeam are registered trademarks and neT.120 and CCTS are trademarks of DataBeam Corporation. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Jessica Solodar or Kristen Hagedorn Rogers Communications (617) 224-1100 jsolodar@rogerscom.com or Becky Taylor DataBeam Corp. (606) 245-3517 btaylor@databeam.com |
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