Intel delivers world's first standards-based desktop multipoint video, audio and data conferencing solution; Leading PC companies announce Integrated ProShare product offerings.HILLSBORO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 1996--Intel Corporation today announced the world's first PC-based multipoint video, audio and data conferencing Sharing data interactively among several users in different locations. Data conferencing is made up of whiteboards and application sharing and are often used in conjunction with an audio or videoconferencing connection. solution that is fully compliant with international telecommunications standards. The new release of Intel's ProShare(TM) Conferencing Video System 200 allows up to 24 people to simultaneously participate in a video conference from their individual desktop PCs. The new release is immediately available as a free upgrade to ProShare conferencing users and will be included in all new purchases of the ProShare Conferencing Video System 200. Intel's ProShare Conferencing Video System 200 delivers multipoint video, audio and data conferencing through compliance with international standards, including the T.120 standard for sharing data with multiple conference participants and the H.320 standard for multipoint video and audio conferences. ProShare conferencing systems communicate with other brands of video, data and audio conferencing See audioconferencing. solutions that comply with these international standards. All ProShare conferencing systems run on Windows '95(a) and Windows 3.1(a) operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . "The world's number one desktop video conferencing See videoconferencing. (communications) video conferencing - A discussion between two or more groups of people who are in different places but can see and hear each other using electronic communications. solution for business is now even better," said Frank Gill
Computer Leaders Offer Integrated ProShare Conferencing Solutions Leading PC companies and software suppliers have announced plans to integrate ProShare conferencing technology into their product offerings. Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. today announced desktop conferencing See videoconferencing and data conferencing. solutions for the business environment that include the Intel ProShare Conferencing Video System 200. Comprised of powerful, feature-rich Compaq Pentium(R) processor desktop PCs and Intel ProShare Conferencing Video System 200, these PC-based conferencing platforms have been tested and approved by Compaq and Intel and will be available mid-May through Compaq authorized resellers in the U.S. "Compaq is taking the first step in an umbrella strategy we announced last year to incorporate Intel's ProShare conferencing technology into Compaq commercial desktop products," said Michael Shealy, vice president, Commercial Desktop Division, Compaq Computer Corporation. "Authorized resellers will offer select Compaq desktop PCs specially configured with Intel ProShare Conferencing Video System 200 supported by Compaq and Intel. Compaq believes that ProShare conferencing technology provides robust and innovative video and data conferencing capabilities for our customers." 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) also plans to offer integrated video conferencing solutions for business customers based on Intel's ProShare Conferencing Video System 200. "Our customers are interested in leveraging the convergence of voice, data and video technologies to provide real-time communications across their enterprises," said Rod Adkins, general manager, Commercial Desktop, IBM PC Company A subsidiary of the IBM Corporation located in Raleigh, NC, that was involved with all aspects of IBM PCs. In 2004, it became part of Lenovo, which acquired IBM's ThinkPad personal computers. See Lenovo. . "The availability of technology included in Intel's Release 2.0 of ProShare conferencing systems offers IBM customers the ability to integrate leading videoconferencing functions with robust data collaboration See data conferencing. functions already available in our PC 700 product line. We plan to enhance our existing product lineup with this capability allowing our customers to build the best collaboration solutions." Lotus Development Corporation (company) Lotus Development Corporation - A software company who produced Lotus 1-2-3, the Symphony spreadsheet and Lotus Notes for the IBM PC. Disliked by the League for Programming Freedom on account of their lawsuits. Quarterly sales $224M, profits $10M (Aug 1994). also plans to upgrade its RealTime(TM) Notes group conferencing with the new ProShare multipoint conferencing Same as teleconferencing. This is a rather redundant phrase, because conferencing implies three or more participants, rather than point-to-point between two people. features. "Intel's new release 2.0 of ProShare conferencing systems is significant to anyone wishing to communicate and collaborate in a more personal, innovative way," said Joseph Forgione, vice president, Lotus Business Multimedia Group. "ProShare conferencing technology and RealTime Notes together bring fabulous capabilities to the Notes environment. "The integration of Intel ProShare conferencing technology presents Notes users with another way to communicate through their Notes desktops, and provides Notes application developers with an exciting opportunity to enhance and extend the value of their existing groupware applications with desktop conferencing." Multipoint Services and Multipoint Control Units In order to conduct multipoint conferences, participants dial into a multipoint conferencing unit or service. Intel's ProShare Conferencing Video System 200 is supported by leading multipoint conferencing services, such as those available from AT&T, 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. , Sprint, Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom AG (ISIN: DE0005557508, FWB: DTE, NYSE: DT, LSE: DEU, TYO: 9496 ) (abbreviated DTAG) is a telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is the largest telecommunications company in Germany and in the EU. , France Telecom, PTT (1) (Postal, Telegraph & Telephone) The governmental agency responsible for combined postal, telegraph and telephone services in many European countries. (2) See push-to-talk. PTT - Post, Telephone and Telegraph administration Telecom (Netherlands) and NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform PC Communications, Inc., to deliver rich multipoint video conferences. "ProShare conferencing users now have the ability to conduct full multipoint voice, video and data calls over AT&T's WorldWorx Network, the world's leading multipoint video conferencing service," said Ernie G. DeNegris, director and general manager, AT&T TeleConference Services. "For the first time, these users will be able to use WorldWorx Service to simultaneously collaborate with multiple members of their workgroup." ProShare conferencing users can also purchase their own multipoint control units to conduct multipoint video, audio and data conferences. The ProShare Conferencing Video System is fully supported by leading multipoint control unit suppliers, such as VideoServer and Lucent Technologies. Real Business Solutions Many businesses and large corporations are deploying ProShare conferencing solutions throughout the world with immediate results. Leaders in the loan origination The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , manufacturing and health care industries have gained improvements in productivity and communications using ProShare video conferencing systems. "Thanks to Intel ProShare video conferencing, our position in the market as a wholesale lender has grown from approximately the eighteenth largest to among the top five," said Michael Hillman Hillman was a famous British automobile marque, manufactured by the Rootes Group. It was based in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, near Coventry, England, from 1907 to 1976. Before 1907 the company had built bicycles. , vice president of business development, Flagstar Bank Flagstar Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: FBC) operates as the holding company for Flagstar Bank, a federally chartered stock savings bank. Flagstar is the largest publicly traded savings bank headquartered in the midwest United States. . "We are confident that the additional benefits we will introduce with the newest enhancements of ProShare Conferencing Video System 200, particularly multipoint conferencing, will augment both the size and utilization rate of our extensive network of ProShare video conferencing systems." Additional Product Enhancements In addition to multipoint video conferencing functions, Intel's ProShare Conferencing Video System 200 includes enhanced conferencing features and a new screen display. The enhanced conferencing features include new tools to coordinate the participation of many video conference attendees. The new ProShare conferencing screen displays an office setting, a business conference room, or an auditorium, depending on the number of conference participants. Intel's ProShare Conferencing Video System 200 also includes improved audio and video quality through new video compression Encoding digital video to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. See video codec and data compression. video compression - Compression of sequences of images. and decompression algorithms. The ProShare Conferencing Video System 200 and 150 also continue to provide audio, video and data conferencing over the corporate intranet. Intel also enhanced its ProShare Conferencing Video System 150 and ProShare Premier software to enable multipoint data conferencing over corporate intranets. This enhancement, available free to ProShare conferencing users, allows multiple persons connected to local area networks (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. ) and wide area networks (WAN) to share data and collaborate simultaneously. The new multipoint data conferencing capabilities will be included in all new purchases of the ProShare Conferencing Video System 150 and ProShare Premier software. Free Upgrade, Reduced Price and Immediate Availability The new enhancements to the ProShare Conferencing Video System 200, ProShare Conferencing Video System 150 and ProShare Premier software are available immediately as a free upgrade to ProShare conferencing users. ProShare conferencing users can call 1-800-671-0148 to order a free upgrade. In addition to the new enhancement to the ProShare product line, Intel also announced a 25% reduction in the suggested retail price for the ProShare Conferencing Video System 200 to $1499, which may be available for as low as $999 when purchased with long distance support from Sprint. As an introductory offer, Intel is offering an additional $200 discount though participating resellers until the end of June 1996. The suggested retail price of ProShare Premier software has also been reduced to $199. The ProShare Developers Kit, a complete tool kit for application developers, is available at an annual subscription rate of $495. To subscribe to the program, call 503/264-6070. For additional information on Intel ProShare conferencing products, please visit Intel's World Wide Web address, http://www.intel.com/comm-net/proshare/index.html or call Intel's FaxBACK Information Service at 800/525-3019. Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of personal computer, networking and communications products. (a) Other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Intel Corporation Kathy Melcher, 503/264-0139 Seth Walker, 503/264-0729 |
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