[Who needs bandwidth..?]
Video over the internet...watch Lucent...I would not be surprised to
see an ADSL card in their PBX offering in the distant future. Hmmm...
let me think..you can use your PBX and phone for internet
telephony ...sounds like a great sales proposition. Don't forget
Lucent announced their Internet Telephony Server this month. Essentially,
you can use your phone to make a local call..hop off on the internet and
terminate your ld call on a local loop...hence no ld charges.
Now you know what keeps the RBOCS & LD carriers awake at night.
Tuesday April 22 10:40 PM EDT
ADVISORY/Centigram and Lucent to exchange first live voice and fax
messages using VPIM Protocol over the Internet
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Call to schedule your personal live demonstration.
WHO: Centigram Communications Corp , leading
global provider of wireless and wireline messaging and
communications solutions, and Lucent Technologies Inc ,
which designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and
private networks, communication systems and microelectronics
components, and is a leading provider of business messaging
systems.
WHAT: Dennis Barsema, Centigram's senior vice president and
Service Provider Division general manager, and Marty Parker,
Lucent's director of Collaborative Conferencing and
Messaging, and their teams will collaborate by sending voice
and fax messages between mailboxes on their respective
corporate messaging systems.
WHY: To demonstrate Lucent's and Centigram's deployment of the
new VPIM standard for worldwide multi-media messaging. This
is the first time VPIM (Voice Profile for Internet
Messaging) has been fully deployed in an actual corporate
messaging environment. Centigram and Lucent will use VPIM
to develop a press announcement for later today,
demonstrating the collaborative power of VPIM to improve
productivity and reduce cost using voice and fax messaging.
HOW: Equipment manufacturers using the VPIM protocol enable users
of disparate messaging systems in different locations to
exchange voice and fax messages between existing and future
messaging platforms connected by the Internet. The VPIM
protocol incorporates the standards-based, cross-system
transmission capabilities of Enhanced Simple Message
Transfer Protocol/Multipurpose Internet Messaging Extension
(ESMTP/MIME), and the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet
Protocol (TCP/IP).
WHERE: From Centigram's headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and
Lucent's Business Communications Systems headquarters in
Basking Ridge, NJ.
WHEN: Today, April 22, 1997.
CONTACT: Centigram Communications Corp.
Bev Rindfleisch, 408/428-3722
bev.rindfleisch@centigram.com
or
Lucent Technologies
Walt Greenwood, 908/953-7530
wgreenwood@lucent.com |
