INTERNET--(esecurities.W)--May 19, 1999 - Will WeCanTalk.com put a face on: Intel® Personal Communications Initiative?
Intel® Personal Communications Initiative
Highlights--Intel® Multi-Point Audio Enhances Home Networking IAL's Multi-Point Audio software allows people to talk, interact and play games on up to 5 PCs networked with a product such as Intel® AnyPoint™ Home Network*.
The mission of the Personal Communications initiative is to make the use of video phone calls widespread.
This means contributing specifications and technologies to enable Internet telephony and video conferencing over existing networks and analog telephone connections. It also means paving the way for solutions that are open and interoperable. The Personal Communications initiative has been active for several years, having a strong impact on the industry area. Today, for instance, many of the technical barriers to video conferencing and telephony over the Internet have been removed.
What is IAL doing?
The Personal Communications initiative applies its research and development efforts in three areas:
•Developing specifications and technologies. •Ensuring that these technologies become broadly available in the market. •Fostering interoperability in conferencing and telephony products from multiple vendors on multiple platforms.
1.Developing Specifications and Technologies
IAL Personal Communications initiative engineers contributed to many of today's major video telephony specifications, particularly H.323 and H.324. These standards were developed under and adopted by the International Telecommunications Union (http://www.itu.ch/) to embrace IP-based networks and analog video telephony, respectively.
2.Ensuring Technologies Become Broadly Available
Working through Intel's own product groups, this initiative activity has created products from their technologies, and licensed H.323 and H.324-based components to help these two standards take root in the market.
The Intel® Video Phone, which implements both the H.323 and H.324 standards, is an integral part of systems from many of today's leading PC manufacturers.
H.323-based video conferencing technology is also part of Microsoft NetMeeting* (www.microsoft.com/netmeeting), a product shipped with tens of millions of new PCs. This product lets users conduct "face-to-face" video meetings across intranets and the Internet..."
SOURCE: © copyright 1999 intel® developer.intel.com
*TRENDS IN HOME COMPUTING
"...By the end of this year, more than 17 million homes will have two or more PCs, and the number is rising fast.* Multiple-PC homes tend to use the Internet more than households with just one PC.**
Put those two trends together, and it's clear that networking household PCs is a great idea. With an AnyPoint Home Network, everyone in the household can simultaneously share a single Internet connection from their own connected PC, as well as share drives and printers, and play multi-user games together. And, you can still make and receive phone calls while printing, accessing files, or playing multi-player games across the AnyPoint Home Network. You can also enjoy forthcoming applications that are now being designed to take advantage of home networks.
For more information on our research, check out the latest Trends in Home Computing paper..." © copyright 1999 intel® [emphasis added]
Note: In addition to TALK' N PLAY, ThrustMaster owns trademark numbers 75-461883 and 75-461815 which represent CHAT' N PLAY and SEE' N PLAY, respectively. Of further? significance, TMSR also recently hired Loren Winzeler jars.com and Rob Smart Message 7271094 away from intel® IAL.
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