VideoServer Recognized for IP Innovation
Wins Frost & Sullivan's 1999 Market Engineering Award
For Leadership and Innovation
BURLINGTON, Mass., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- VideoServer, Inc.
(Nasdaq: VSVR), a leading enabler of multimedia group communications, today
announced it has been selected as the winner of Frost & Sullivan's 1999 Market
Engineering Product Innovation Award, recognizing the company for its "ability
to adopt new technology, develop a well-designed product family and make
significant contributions to the [IP] industry."
Having evaluated Encounter, VideoServer's range of IP-based multimedia
communications products, Frost & Sullivan, a widely respected international
marketing consulting and training firm in the telecommunications market,
selected VideoServer over 100 other multimedia communications vendors.
"We want to recognize companies that have made a major contribution in
bringing multimedia communications technology into the mainstream," said Frost
& Sullivan analyst Alena Carroll. "VideoServer's early market leadership with
standards-based products allows companies to leverage the ubiquity of the
Internet for a richer internal and external communications experience."
In its award outline, Frost & Sullivan describes VideoServer as a leader
in the multimedia communications market, whose products have achieved a level
of product performance that serves as a benchmark for the rest of the IP
industry.
"This award demonstrates VideoServer's commitment to delivering reliable
and compelling new applications that allow corporations to leverage the power
of intranets and the Internet for powerful and productive group interaction,"
said Khoa Nguyen, president and CEO of VideoServer. "We are excited the
analysts of Frost & Sullivan have singled out VideoServer as a leader in
driving IP multimedia communications forward."
Frost & Sullivan presents the annual Market Engineering awards to
companies in the US multimedia conferencing system and service industry who
have made a positive contribution to this market.
About The Encounter Family
The Encounter Family allows businesses to integrate IP-based voice, video,
and data communications in their existing network infrastructure, enabling
real-time multimedia communication and collaboration. The Encounter Family
includes:
-- Encounter NetServer is a Multimedia Conference Server that enables
users on IP networks - corporate LANs, intranets, or the Internet - to
create and participate in multipoint, multimedia conferences, using any
combination of voice, video and data.
-- Encounter NetGate enables multimedia conferencing between ISDN and IP-
based devices. By ensuring that IP conferencing integrates effectively
with ISDN equipment, Encounter NetGate helps protect organizations'
existing technology investments, while facilitating state-of-the-art
communications.
-- Encounter Gatekeeper is a software application, which enables
administrators to set network policies and control access and bandwidth
utilization for a zone of endpoint terminals, gateways and Multimedia
Conference Servers on the network.
-- Encounter NetServer ADX 1000 is the first voice and data conferencing
server to accommodate both traditional phone (POTS) users and Internet
(VOIP) users for multiparty voice conferencing.
About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan is an international marketing consulting and training
company that monitors the telecommunications industry for market trends,
market measurements and strategies. This ongoing research is utilized to
update a series on online research publications such as the Conferencing
Custom Subscription (www.frost.com/online), and to support industry
participants with customized consulting needs.
About VideoServer
VideoServer, Inc. is a leading enabler of multimedia group communications,
allowing people in multiple locations to communicate together using any
combination of voice, video and data. VideoServer connects employees,
customers and partners reliably to each other by providing seamless
integration of multimedia communications over LANs, intranets and the
Internet. The company's Multimedia Conference Servers (MCS) and gateways
provide multipoint conferencing, gateway services, conference control, and
bandwidth management.
VideoServer sells its products and services worldwide through leading
resellers and integrators of videoconferencing and networking solutions.
VideoServer also sells directly to providers of conferencing services,
including Internet Service Providers, telecommunication carriers, Regional
Bell Operating Companies and global PTTs.
Editors' Note: The VideoServer logo is a registered trademark of
VideoServer, Inc. Encounter and Velocity are trademarks of VideoServer Inc.
Additional information on VideoServer and its products is available at
videoserver.com. All other trademarks are property of their
respective companies.
SOURCE VideoServer, Inc.
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/CONTACT: Karen Nichols of Lois Paul & Partners, 781-238-5732,
karen_nichols@lpp.com or Bridget Peake of VideoServer, Inc., 781-505-2188,
bpeake@videoserver.com/
/Web site: videoserver.com
/Web site: frost.com
(VSVR)
CO: VideoServer, Inc., Frost & Sullivan
ST: Massachusetts
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