Intelect and Dell Sign Agreement for LANscape Full-Motion Video Communications
11:14 am Eastern Time
RICHARDSON, Texas, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Intelect Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: ICOM - news), a leading provider of products and services for the seamless integration of voice, data and video technologies, today announced that its LANscape(TM) video communications product has incorporated Dell Computer Corporation's (Nasdaq: DELL - news) personal computers and workstations into its turnkey solution. By year's end, Dell(R) will also provide the factory integration of software and hardware on systems for the video communication products Intelect sells in the United States.
Intelect will now be able to offer world-class multimedia PCs and workstations with LANscape's full-motion, full-color video communications starting at $4,995, priced significantly below the market. The agreement with Dell is designed to save Intelect customers time and money in the set-up and roll-out of enterprise video communications.
''Our agreement demonstrates our mutual commitment to delivering ready-to- run highly manageable solutions tailored to the needs of customers,'' stated Keith Smith, vice president and general manager of Intelect Visual Communications, the division producing LANscape. ''By combining the best price-performance video solution with Dell's reliable and proven PC products, we've made it that much easier for customers to choose our systems. More importantly, it allows Intelect to better address customers' needs.''
LANscape is a unique, cost-effective video communications breakthrough, offering full-motion, full-color communications with each user appearing in a fully adjustable window. Utilizing IP as the transmission protocol, LANscape can be transported across existing LAN/WAN networks using Ethernet, Internet, Frame Relay, ATM, SONET or SDH. In addition to video conferencing, LANscape features video record and playback controls, supporting IP multicast for transmission of live or pre-recorded video from one-to-many or many-to-many.
Ranked No. 125 in the Fortune 500 companies and No. 363 in the Fortune Global 500, Dell Computer Corporation is the world's leading direct computer systems company, based on revenues of $15.2 billion for the past four quarters. Dell designs, manufactures and customizes products and services to customer requirements and offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals and software through the DellWare(R) program. Information on Dell and its products can be obtained through its toll-free number 1-800-388-8542 or by accessing the Dell World Wide Web at www.dell.com.
Intelect Communications, Inc. is a communications technology company providing innovative and cost-effective products, services and solutions to integrate voice, data, and video networks. Applications for Intelect's products and services range from the network infrastructure to the desktop. Intelect's products are designed to anticipate and meet the demands for increasing speed, capacity, and complexity of electronic and photonic communications. Principal markets for Intelect's products are: fiber optic network transmission, digital signal processing (DSP), and video communications. Intelect also provides high-value engineering services to the communications industry. Intelect currently has under development an intelligent programmable telecommunications switching platform. Intelect's principal business units are Intelect Network Technologies Co. and DNA Enterprises, Inc. based in Richardson and Intelect Visual Communications Corp. of New York City.
Further information about the Intelect family of multimedia products and services can be accessed at these World Wide Web locations:
Intelect Communications, Inc., intelectcom.com;
Intelect Network Technologies, intelectinc.com;
Intelect Visual Communications, videoconferencing.com
and; DNA Enterprises, dnaent.com.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the statements in this announcement are forward looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, the forward looking statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, those relating to: general economic conditions in the markets in which the Company operates; success in the development and market acceptance of new and existing products (particularly SONETLYNX(TM), FIBERTRAX(TM), LANscape(TM), and CS4(TM) ); dependence on suppliers, third party manufacturers and channels of distribution; customer and product concentration; fluctuations in customer demand; maintaining access to external sources of capital; ability to execute management's margin improvement and cost control plans; overall management of Intelect's expansion; and other risk factors detailed from time to time in Intelect's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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