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 (1) (Lower case "i"nternet) A large network made up of a number of smaller networks. (2) (Upper case "I"nternet) The largest network in the world. It is made up of more than 100 million computers in more than 100 countries covering commercial, academic and government endeavors. Originally developed for the U.S. military, the Internet became widely used for academic and commercial research. Telephony cards more accessible and affordable than ever for Linux Linux Is Open Source Linux is the most popular open source operating system in use. Its source code is available free of charge; however, Linux is distributed along with technical support and training for a fee from several vendors such as Red Hat Software (www.redhat.com) and Novell (www.novell.com). The distribution CD-ROMs include the complete source code as well as hundreds of tools, applets and utilities. 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 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. "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 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(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, 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. 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 Capable of transmitting and receiving over the same channel simultaneously. In pure digital networks, this is achieved with two pairs of wires. In analog networks or in digital networks using carriers, it is achieved by dividing the bandwidth of the line into two frequencies, one for sending, the other for receiving. audio card Same as sound 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 interface and includes a headphone 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, the, international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises (called gateways or service providers) that enable individuals to access the network. 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 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 whose investors include Rare Medium Group Inc. (NASDAQ: RRRR) and Psion PLC (LONDON: PON), 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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