Debra,
Glad to see someone actually read that post, I was begining to think I had wasted everyone's time. Here's another interesting article I picked up off of Yahoo today (Kind of embarassing since it's my own company, and I had not heard about it.)
Scott.
Lucent Technologies markets Bell Labs software for high-quality
Internet telephony
MURRAY HILL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 1996--Lucent Technologies today established a new business
venture group to sell software that gives businesses and consumers high-quality voice, music and video over intranets
and the Internet.
The Media Plus(TM) products available from the elemedia (elements for multimedia) new venture group include voice
software, which enables 'telephone quality' conversations over the Internet; speakerphone software, which grants true
full-duplex capabilities to PCs and Internet phone devices; and FM stereo/CD-quality audio software, which supports
services such as music-on-demand and real-time audio broadcasting.
By next quarter, elemedia also will provide software that enables home and business-quality videoconferencing over the
Internet.
"We're capitalizing on a more than a decade of Bell Laboratories software research and development in packet
technologies to bring Internet telephony to the level of quality people are accustomed to," said Joe Mele, president of
elemedia. "This software will help move voice, music and video over the Internet beyond the current base of
technologists and hobbyists and into the mainstream."
Media Plus software components are standards-based and designed so software vendors, Internet service providers
and other companies can integrate them easily into products and services they provide to customers. The components
run on most popular platforms, including Intel Pentium(TM) and 486(TM) processors as well as digital signal processors
(DSPs).
Initial customers include Camelot, manufacturer of DigiPhone(TM) Internet telephony software; Isochrone, developer of
Internet communications software applications; and Soundprint Media Center, provider of Internet services for the
public radio broadcasting industry.
Technical information on the various Media Plus voice and audio products is available via the World Wide Web at
lucent.com.
The elemedia group is the second business venture created by Lucent Technologies to market Bell Labs software
innovations. The first was the Inferno business venture, announced in May, which markets the company's new distributed
network operating system software.
"From now on, you will see many Lucent innovations, such as those from the Inferno and elemedia groups, coming to
market," said Dan Stanzione, Bell Labs president. "Bell Labs is the 'innovation engine' of the company not just because
of new ventures that solve today's business problems, but also because we continue to conduct world-class research
that helps us anticipate and solve tomorrow's problems."
Lucent Technologies was formed as a result of AT&T's previously announced plans to restructure itself into three
separate companies. Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks,
communications systems and software, consumer and business telephone systems and microelectronics components.
Bell Laboratories is the research and development arm of the company.
CONTACT: Glynnis Woolridge
Lucent Technologies - Bell Labs
Work - 908/582-4120
Home - 908/247-0839
Email - glynnis@lucent.com
or
Dick Muldoon
Lucent Technologies - Bell Labs
Work - 908/582-5330
Home - 201/635-6699
Email - rpmuldoon@lucent.com
or
lucent.com |
