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To: OpenSea who wrote (1)	4/3/1998 8:03:00 AM
From: joe	Respond to of 44

talk to byron g. he is the best.

To: OpenSea who wrote (1)	4/3/1998 9:23:00 AM
From: Carol S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44

You can get information on this company from nas.com there is a write up on the page and you can request further info from them.

To: OpenSea who wrote (1)	4/18/1998 8:54:00 AM
From: drivaldog	Respond to of 44

4/13/98 Information Week, "Resurgence of Convergence" Page 50 Excerpts: There is more info, this is just some of the things I retyped. "The traditionally discrete worlds of voice and data are starting to come together, letting companies focus more on their information and less on how they access or deliver it. This utopian state is known as "convergence", and a number of innovative user companies - including Boeing, Kaiser Permanente, Qualcomm, and Strong Capital Management - are beginning to buy into the promise, albeit cautiously. At the transport level, convergence means data networks also carrying voice, video, and images. At the user-interface level, it means PCs becoming telephones and mobile phones becoming devices that can browse the Web and send E-mail. At the infrastructure level, it means PBXs and other phone switches being replaced or augmented by servers. The promise: Companies can lower their communications costs by as much as 40% by pumping voice traffic through the unused space in data networks for a "free ride." Managing and supporting one "converged" network is much easier than managing two or three. And when traffic of all kinds rides the same rail, conventional voice - and data system vendors can no longer be so proprietary - leading to lower product prices and more innovation. More important, convergence can help companies create networked multimedia applications that tie together employees, internal processes, and external partners in more productive ways. Among those applications Web-integrated call centers, multimedia conferencing, unified messaging, and computer-telephony customer-service apps......" "...Today, with voice traffic growing only 8% to 10% a year and data traffic doubling each year, more than half of all bandwidth will be consumed by data traffic by 2000; 80% by 2003. That means the networks of tomorrow are being engineered to carry data. Eventually; proponents argue, voice will piggyback on data instead of requiring its own separate infrastructure....." "....researchers are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into improving the quality and reliability of voice transmitted over packet networks. Standards bodies have already turned out specs for voice over frame relay and ATM, while a spec for optimizing voice over IP is less than a year away. Standards bodies are also tackling such issues as call control, translation between IP addresses and telephone numbers, billing and security." "Just about every communications hardware and software maker - including Bay Networks, Cisco Systems, Lotus Development, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft, Nortel, and 3com - is throwing its weight behind convergence. Microsoft, for example, is integrating voice-over-IP technology into Windows BT 5.0 as part of its telephone application programming interface. With TAP,I millions of independent programmers will be able to write voice apps to work with IP networks." "Microsoft is also driving the conferencing market. Microsoft now bundles its NetMeeting software for data conferencing with every Internet Explorer 4.0 browser, seeding the market with about 40 million copies of the software so far. The next step for some companies is to merge that data application with voice and video." Boeing is using NetMeeting. Craig Dupler of Boeing states, ".....I see Internet telephony taking over without us ever making a formal decision about it." "Cisco is rolling out products to support integrated data-voice-video in five phases." "...many argue that the best convergence technology is ATM, because it was developed precisely to handle multimedia traffic. " There is more..... just thought I would pass this info along. GO DGIV!