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Monday November 24, 7:00 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Coherent And Motorola Announce Agreement
LEESBURG, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 24, 1997--
Coherent Communications Systems Corporation and Motorola's Information Security Division announced today
an agreement to market Coherent's Consortium(TM) Conference System with Motorola's CipherLINK(TM)
system - creating the world's first commercial encrypted conference system.
Secure conferencing is an important issue, particularly for global organizations requiring top quality
communications within a secure system. By connecting the market-proven Coherent Consortium system to
Motorola's CipherLINK system, the market now has access to a new level of conferencing performance, offering
security for both incoming and outgoing conference calls, combined with maximum automation and transparency
to the user.
Coherent's Consortium is an advanced telephone conferencing system that supports multiple conferences
simultaneously, enabling remote scheduling of conferences from any location via a telephone. Motorola's
CipherLINK system can provide encrypted security to any existing desktop telephone connected to a PBX or
Centrex switch within a CipherLINK system. This system provides voice security infrastructure for building or
campus environments, allowing users to initiate and receive secure calls from any telephone within a CipherLINK
system. By utilizing the Secure Conferencing Bridge, organizations are able to hold ''virtual'' meetings effectively,
involving participants from around the world without the usual time and travel constraints. Above all, they have the
assurance that the discussions are held in confidence. Sales meetings, product and technology meetings, marketing
and strategic business meetings can now be held via telephone with the same degree of privacy that exists in
closed-door sessions.
''Our customers have been requesting high level, high assurance secure conferencing for some time,'' said Jerry
Ogden, Motorola Product Manager. ''Coherent is well known and well respected in the telecommunications
arena. We believe this is a value-added agreement that provides high assurance, user-friendly products to the
end-user community, especially beneficial for large organizations with global operations.''
Commenting for Coherent, Bob Cash, Senior VP of Sales, said: ''The teamwork between our two companies has
been exceptional, enabling the design of the world's first commercial encrypted conference platform to be
achieved quickly and efficiently. Our combined expertise has produced a high performance system, responding
fast to the market demand for more secure conferencing. We are delighted to be working with Motorola on what
promises to be a very successful product.''
Motorola has over 30 years of experience in secure encrypted telecommunications, initially serving the government
and military markets. The CipherLINK system is part of a family of secure telecommunication products developed
primarily for the commercial and international markets by the Secure Telecommunications Products Business Unit
of Motorola's Space and Systems Technology Group, Information Security Division.
Coherent's Consortium Conference System supports 2 to 96 participants in a single conference or in multiple
conferences. Consortium operates on an easy-to-use platform, compatible with most telephone and PBX systems.
Its highly rated graphical user interface (GUI) and touch tone controls make the system intuitive to use.
Conferences can be totally automated, with callers directly accessing the conference by entering a code via a
touch tone phone. Coherent's industry-leading digital echo cancellation and line equalization at each port deliver
clear, full duplex audio, even when all participants speak simultaneously.
Coherent Communications Systems Corporation is a worldwide leader in state of the art voice enhancement
technology, audio conferencing products, and echo cancellation platforms and associated network software. The
Company's conferencing products are used by such customers as Lockheed Martin, Fox News, NASA, The 96
Summer Olympics, and The White House. Coherent is a fully accredited ISO 9001 company, dedicated to
maintaining the highest quality standards at every level. The Coherent Consortium Conference System is currently
available in the US and Canada.
Motorola is one of the world's leading providers of wireless communications, semiconductors and advanced
electronic systems, components and services. Major equipment businesses include cellular telephone, two-way
radio, paging and data communications, personal communications, automotive, defense and space electronics and
computers. Motorola semiconductors power communication devices, computers and millions of other products.
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Also available via coherent.com
CipherLINK is a trademark of Motorola, Inc.
Contact:
Coherent Communications
Diane McClelland, 703/724-7311
E-mail: dmcclelland@coherent.com
or
Motorola
Jayne Schaefer, 602/441-0898
E-mail: P28301@email.mot.com |
