LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES: Three companies purchase H.323 protocol stack from Lucent's elemedia venture
Presswire - December 02, 1998 14:16
M2 PRESSWIRE-2 December 1998-LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES: Three companies purchase H.323 protocol stack from Lucent Technologies' elemedia venture (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- elemedia, a wholly-owned venture of Lucent Technologies that provides high-quality solutions for the Internet telephony and multimedia market, today announced that three leading-edge companies have signed contracts to use its industry-leading H.323 protocol stack.
The three companies are:
* Com21, Inc., Milpitas, Calif., a leading global provider supplier of high-speed access, cable modem solutions for the broadband market;
* MediaGate, Inc., San Jose, Calif., which provides an array of communications products and services for Internet services providers and corporate Intranets, and
* Comdial Corp., Charlottesville, Va., which sells integrated communications solutions for small and mid-size organizations.
Com21 and MediaGate are new customers for elemedia's version of the H.323 protocol stack. Comdial, which first purchased elemedia's gateway software in 1997, has renewed its licensing arrangement.
"elemedia brings a degree of reliability and scalability not available in other products and gives Com21 a significant time to market advantage in cable-based VoIP markets," said Pete Fenner, president and CEO of Com21.
"The elemedia multi-thread H.323 stack is the best solution for server manufacturers who need to provide the maximum number of H.323 channels in a single server," said Doron Herzlich, chairman of MediaGate.
"We are pleased to have the opportunity to enhance our products with solid H.323 gatekeeper technology from elemedia," said Row Zadeh, president of Array Telecom Corp., Toronto, a wholly owned subsidiary of Comdial that provides carrier-class and enterprise Internet Protocol (IP) telephony gateway products.
"The high quality of elemedia's technology, combined with excellent support, has been essential in our decision," said Zadeh. "We are confident that this technology will support the necessary gateway interoperability, and will continue the leadership position of our VOIPgate product in the carrier and enterprise IP telephony markets."
"Our version of the H.323 protocol stack greatly expands the interoperability, reliability and functionality of a wide range of voice, data and visual communications over the Internet, intranets and local area networks," said Joe Mele, president of elemedia.
"Through these contracts, we're showing our commitment to work with companies everywhere to help create a variety of value-adding applications that cut communications costs, redefine the way computers and telephone capabilities converge, and introduce new vehicles for conducting business," Mele said.
Com21 is a leading global provider of cable modem technology for delivering high-speed Internet access over CATV systems. The company enables cable operators and service providers to provide high-speed, cost-effective Internet access to corporate telecommuters, small businesses, home offices and residential users. Founded in 1992 and completing its initial public offering in May of 1998, its stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol CMTO. For more information, visit the web site at com21.com.
MediaGate, Inc., manufactures universal communication products that enable Internet service providers to offer new revenue generating enhanced services. MediaGate's products include universal communication servers, remote access and universal messaging software, and a reseller program for universal messaging services. For more information, visit the web site at mediagate.com
Comdial Corp. is a provider of integrated communications solutions for small and mid-size organizations. The company's broad product line includes digital switches, wired and wireless phones, call center hardware and software, voice processing, and IP telephony gateways. For more information visit the web site at comdial.com
elemedia, one of the first venture companies launched by Lucent, markets powerful, standards-based software platforms for gatekeepers, gateways, and protocols that enable high-quality, multimedia communications over IP networks. The elemedia family of products is based on Bell Laboratories research.
Leveraging Bell Labs' expertise in digital communications, signal processing and software design and development, elemedia delivers leading-edge software products that are designed to significantly improve the performance of IP communications. For more information on elemedia, visit the web site at elemedia.com
Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit the web site at lucent.com
CONTACT: David Bikle, Lucent Technologies Tel: +1 908 582 4120 e-mail: dbikle@lucent.com Chris Pfaff, Lucent Technologies Tel: +1 908 582 7571 e-mail: cpfaff@lucent.com
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