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PR: Internet Telephone: IBM Statement of Direction
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mick Brown)
Thu Feb 22 08:38:13 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 21 Feb 1996 05:16:04 GMT
From: lfirrantello@BIX.com (Mick Brown)
Reply-To: tsipple@vnet.IBM.COM
Reply-To: tsipple@vnet.IBM.COM
Submitted by: Timothy F. Sipples
Source: IBM
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Internet Telephone: IBM Statement of Direction
IBM is announcing its intent to enter into the Internet multimedia
communication market by bringing software telephony applications to the world
of the Internet as well as private TCP/IP networks. Anyone using the Internet
will enjoy being able to hold voice communications with friends, relatives,
and business associates using their existing Internet access connection.
This software is an evolution of IBM technologies already developed in its
research labs that provides Simultaneous Voice and Data (SVD) capabilities. It
will enable people to talk with each other with voice quality comparable to a
good cellular system.
IBM customers have expressed this need to combine voice communications and the
transmission of data on a single telephone line via the Internet. The
graphical user interface will make it easy to use, even for the Internet
beginner. IBM employees world-wide are trying it now and it will go on the
market in a few months.
Since today's Internet telephone products and technologies do not interoperate
among one other, IBM is announcing, effective immediately, the intention to
establish a consortium of technology developers and suppliers to address
interoperability among the various industry offerings. Parties interested in
joining this consortium should contact the IBM Internet Division.
This software will come preloaded on IBM multimedia PCs. The technology will
be included in IBM's OS/2 Warp operating system, as well as other IBM software
and hardware products. Future product directions include integration with
other IBM leading technologies such as security encryption, conference
calling, and connection from the Internet to any telephone worldwide, opening
up a wide range of opportunities for Internet users.
IBM will demonstrate this Internet telephone technology at CeBIT in Germany
and Computer Telephony Expo '96 in Los Angeles in March, 1996.
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