ITXC deal with Cisco
Excellent news,thanks for posting the link.
Tuesday September 28, 8:51 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Cisco, Intel, ITXC, and Lucent Demonstrate Next Stage of IP Telephony
Interoperability at VON Conference New Client to Gateway and Gatekeeper
Interoperability to Enable enhanced Services
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS EDITORS)--Sept. 28, 1999--Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO -
news), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC - news), ITXC (NASDAQ:ITXC - news) and
Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU - news) today announced here that they are jointly
demonstrating the first H.323v2 standards based VoIP interoperability with a new
class of peripherals - PCs, personal digital assistants, mobile phones, personal
gateways and other IP enabled appliances.
This interoperability will allow a new group of users to make high-quality and
reliable voice calls over an IP telephony network.
In this demonstration, attendees at the conference are able to have a live voice
conversation using Intel Internet Phone software (located in the Intel booth), and
listen as the voice call goes through an ITXC network and is received by either a
standard telephone connected to a Lucent MultiVoice(TM) for the MAX(TM) 6000
gateway (located in the Lucent booth 106) or connected to a Cisco 3620 Voice
Gateway (located in the ITXC booth 329.)
The demonstration is based on recommendations developed by Intel, ITXC, Lucent
and others and submitted to the International Multimedia Teleconferencing
Consortium (IMTC). The recommendations extend the existing iNOW! profile for IP
telephony interoperability, providing immediate connectivity to existing telephones
for a whole new class of users and devices.
If accepted by the IMTC, the proposal offers customers purchasing and using any
iNOW! compliant appliance or client the assurance that they could send calls over any
network using any other iNOW! compatible products.
Cisco, Intel, ITXC, and Lucent are taking leadership roles in working together as part of
the IMTC to provide this level of interoperability to the Internet telephony industry,
which is key to its growth.
''We are pleased to be working with other industry leaders to provide interoperable
New World telephony services with full access to the existing global telephone
network,' said Alistair Woodman, Director of Marketing for Packet Telephony at Cisco
Systems. ''This demonstration and the proposal to the IMTC show how quick solutions
to real customer problems will accelerate the growth of IP telephony.' .......
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