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HP, Intel, Microsoft and Nortel ally on desktop access speeds
By John Rendleman and John G. Spooner, PC Week Online
March 10, 1999 5:38 PM ET
As part of a major technology alliance Intel Corp., Nortel Networks, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft Corp.(Nasdaq:MSFT) will embark on an effort to bridge their semiconductor, PC, Internet browser and data networking technologies.
The alliance--scheduled to be launched Monday at the Technology Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif.--will unite the partners' respective technologies to help provide high-bandwidth applications for the Internet, said sources familiar with the group's plans.
As one aspect of the effort, Intel (Nasdaq:INTC) will partner with Nortel Networks, of Brampton, Ontario, to link the chipmaker's new Pentium III processor with Nortel Networks' 1-Meg Modem, a DSL (digital subscriber line)-based, high-speed modem technology.
By linking the 1-Meg Modem capabilities with the Pentium III, the alliance will enable PC makers to ship PCs with high-speed networking technologies built-in, the sources said.
Intel officials, speaking at the company's Pentium III preview day last month, said high-bandwidth Internet connections such as DSL will be the key to delivering the kind of content, including three- dimensional graphics and streaming audio and video, for which the new chip is optimized.
HP, for its part, is expected to contribute some of its server technology to the alliance to enable the creation of applications- enabled data service capabilities linked with policy-based management of the networked applications, according to sources.
The partners plan to embed networking protocol stacks from Nortel into Microsoft's Windows and Internet Explorer to provide greater intelligence to remote access devices and services.
By embedding the Nortel protocol stack in Windows and IE, the partners hope to allow remote access devices to detect network configurations in order to better "understand" how o communicate across the network, sources said.
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First AT&T. Now this. <g>
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Tom
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