Quicknet Announces Linux Special Edition; Linux Special Edition Packages Combine Award-Winning Quicknet Products With OpenSource Linux Drivers and OpenSource VoIP Resources.Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 2000 Making their award winning Internet Telephony cards more accessible and affordable than ever for Linux system users, Quicknet Technologies, Inc., the leader in low-density Internet Telephony products, today announced their new Linux Special Edition family of products. The Linux Special Edition products are specially packaged to meet the needs of the Linux community, bundling Quicknet's high performance award-winning cards with Quicknet's open-sourced Linux drivers. In addition, each Linux Special Edition driver disk includes an HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. page with links to dozens of Linux-based telephony sites including openphone.org, linuxtelephony.org, openh323.org, opengatekeeper.org and many more. "Linux offers developers an exceptionally flexible and robust environment for developing reliable dedicated telephony applications," commented Mr. Stacey Reineccius, Quicknet President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "The Linux Special Editions are Quicknet's response to countless requests by the Linux community for Quicknet products bundled to meet the specific needs of Linux users without the additional cost and frills Frills see frilled. associated with Windows packaging." The four Linux Special Edition products are the Internet LineJACK(TM) Linux Edition, Internet PhoneJACK Lite(TM) Linux Edition, Internet PhoneJACK-PCI(TM) Linux Edition, and Internet PhoneCARD phonecard Noun a card used instead of coins to operate certain public telephones phonecard n → tarjeta telefónica phonecard phone n (TM) Linux Edition. Using award-winning hardware-based audio compression and decompression for unexcelled audio quality, the products set the standard for high quality, low cost, long distance Internet Telephony. The hardware-based audio acceleration provides cellular phone-quality sound without burdening the computer's CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , maximizing system performance. The Internet LineJACK Linux Edition single line Internet telephone gateway card is designed for home office and small to mid-sized business use with a modem or 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. . The Internet LineJACK Linux Edition, along with the required application software, turns an ordinary analog telephone line and a PC into a single line telephone gateway for PC-to-PC, PC-to-Phone, or Phone-to-PC calling. The Internet PhoneJACK Lite Linux Edition is an ISA bus full-duplex audio card, designed for personal use with a modem or office-to-office connectivity using a LAN. The Internet PhoneJACK-PCI Linux Edition features a PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). interface and includes a headphone See headphones. jack, for connecting into an analog telephone. The Internet PhoneJACK-PCI Linux Edition and Internet PhoneJACK Lite Linux Edition desktop Internet Telephony cards turn analog telephones or PBX's into an Internet telephone with hardware-based echo cancellation and full duplex audio. With the Internet PhoneJACK-PCI Linux Edition and Internet PhoneJACK Lite Linux Edition, users simply pick up the telephone to make an Internet phone call, or answer the phone when it rings to receive an Internet phone call. Unlike software-based Internet phone applications that use the computer's sound card, the Internet PhoneJACK-PCI Linux Edition and Internet PhoneJACK Lite Linux Edition are fullduplex, allowing users to talk and listen at the same time. The first PCMCIA card designed specifically for enhanced voice over the Internet, the Internet PhoneCARD Linux Edition features full-duplex operation and Quicknet's award-winning hardware-based audio acceleration for the highest possible audio quality. The hardware-based audio acceleration in the Internet PhoneCARD Linux Edition reduces annoying audio latency by performing multiple audio processing functions in parallel. The on-board DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive also offloads the CPU for maximum system performance. Price and Availability Linux Special Edition products are available for immediate shipment and may be ordered through the Quicknet Linux Special Edition website at www.linuxjack.com. Prices are: Internet PhoneJACK Lite Linux Edition, $99.95 Internet PhoneJACK - PCI Linux Edition, $149.95 Internet LineJACK Linux Edition, $199.95 Internet PhoneCARD Linux Edition, $169.95 About Quicknet Technologies, Inc. Quicknet Technologies, Inc. has been the leading innovator in low density Internet Telephony hardware and software since 1995. Quicknet Technologies, Inc. is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. whose investors include Rare Medium Group Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : RRRR RRRR Raritan River Rail Road RRRR Rare Medium Corp. (NASDAQ stock symbol) ) and Psion PLC (LONDON: PON (Passive Optical Network) An optical point-to-multipoint access network. There are no optical repeaters or other active devices in a PON, hence the name "passive. ), based in San Francisco, specializing in the design and manufacture of low-density Internet Telephony products for small businesses. Sold in over 175 countries around the world, Quicknet's products enable users to effectively boost their Internet telephone call quality and ease-of-use and are available to resellers directly through Quicknet and are available to end customers through dealers, distributors, and catalog superstores. For more information, please call Quicknet at 415-864-5225, send e-mail to sales@quicknet.net, or visit Quicknet on the web at www.quicknet.net. |
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