IMTC Expects Strong Multimedia on Wireline and Wireless Networks; Organization Sees Market Developments and Proven Technology Available.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN RAMON San Ramon (Spanish for "Saint Raymond") may refer to one of the following places:
The International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (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). ) expects multimedia services such as real-time TV-broadcasts or teleconferences to be available soon not only over wireline but also over wireless networks. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. IMTC-President Dr. Istvan Sebestyen, this organization has witnessed a steadily growing interest from the industry as well as the market in such advanced services. "Mobile phones with color displays and cameras already offer e-mail functions and services," said Dr. Sebestyen. "The popularity of these new phones demonstrates that consumers are ready to adopt such new capabilities and services at a fair price. Real multimedia services could thus prove to be the long-hoped for booster for vendors and network providers." The industry has made some significant advancements in 2003 by proving that the technology required for wireless multimedia services not only exists, but works flawlessly at test sessions organized by the Packet Switched Streaming Activity Group of the Consortium, where wireless products under development from different vendors and network providers were successfully connected in a real 3GPP GPP Government Performance Project GPP General Purpose Processor GPP General Physical Preparedness GPP Gambian People's Party GPP Good Pharmacy Practice GPP Gross Primary Productivity GPP Green Procurement Program GPP Generic Packetized Protocol environment. "These successful tests, market requirements and consumer demands all suggest that wireless multimedia will be the next step in mobile communications. I am proud that IMTC is playing such an instrumental role in this development," Dr. Sebestyen added. With regard to the consortium's overall activities, he pointed out that 2003 was a difficult, but also successful year for IMTC with a somewhat smaller, but stable organization at the end of the year. The Consortium has continued the successful testing of interactive multimedia systems, such as H.320, H.323, H.324, and SIP. Interoperability sessions -a major part of IMTC-activities - were organized in Europe and the U.S., peaking in the traditional "Superconnection" at the last day of the SuperOp! which took place this past September in Austin, Texas, joining all system components in a huge single conference. Endpoints, gateways, proxies, gatekeepers, and multipoint control units of all participating testing teams were linked together using a variety of protocols, including SIP, H.323, H.320, and H.248/Megaco. Also in 2003, IMTC has started a service for its members protecting them in IPR IPR Intellectual Property Rights IPR Inprocess/Inprogress Review IPR Industrial Property Rights IPR Institute for Policy Research (Northwestern University and University of Cincinnati) IPR Institute of Public Relations disputes. IMTC is collecting and archiving all types of old documentation about technological developments and standard developments that do not exist any more in the archives of standards bodies Following are some of the standards bodies defined in this database. For Windows users of CDE, look up Lessons/Review/Associations. For Web users of CDE's online HTML version, review the Lessons list at the bottom of the definition. Organization Covers ANSI U.S. . For example, MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). , JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. , or ITU-T See ITU. ITU-T - International Telecommunications Union multimedia standards. The archive tries to capture all relevant documentation starting from the 1980s. About the IMTC The International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) is an industry-leading non-profit organization whose mission is to promote, encourage, and facilitate the development and implementation of interoperable multimedia conferencing solutions based on open international standards. The IMTC hosts interoperability testing events and demonstrations throughout the world. Over the past three years the IMTC has hosted more than 60 interoperability-testing events to test H.323, H.324, SIP, T.120, H .320, and Voice over IP products and services with each other. The IMTC Board of Directors includes representatives from Cisco Systems, Dilithium Networks, Emblaze em·blaze 1 tr.v. em·blazed, em·blaz·ing, em·blaz·es 1. To set on fire. 2. To cause to glow; light up. Systems, France Telecom, Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications NASDAQ: LVLT is a communications and information services company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, USA. , MediaDigm Technology, Nextreaming Corp., Nokia, Nortel Networks, Polycom, RADVISION, Siemens AG, Sony, and Tandberg. The San Ramon, California-based consortium comprises approximately 70 member organizations from around the globe. Membership is open to any interested party, including vendors of audio, document, and video conferencing hardware and software; academic institutions; government agencies; and non-profit organizations. "The IMTC is making Rich Media happen Anywhere, Anytime." Further information on IMTC can be found at http://www.imtc.org. |
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