October 30, 1995
New York, New York
As part of a major initiative to bring business
multimedia services to the networked enterprise desktop,
InSoft, Inc., today announced that its Communique!
desktop collaboration and videoconferencing application
is an integral software component in AT&T Global
Business Communications Systems' (GBCS) MultiMedia
Communications eXchange (MMCX) system.
MMCX is a key product offering within the AT&T
GBCS multimedia communications services strategy. The new
AT&T MMCX system brings real-time video, voice, data
and multimedia capabilities such as collaborative
computing and videoconferencing to a desktop computer and
uses familiar business calling features such as telephone
number addressing, call conferencing, call forwarding and
call transfer. MMCX provides multimedia calling over
local and wide area networks, and users can place voice
calls to telephones connected to PBXs and the Public
Switched Telephone Network.
OpenDVE,
InSoft's multimedia collaborative framework, allowed
AT&T to integrate its MMCX client/server software
with Communique! an industry-leading LAN-based
collaboration application. Combined, they provide an
"endpoint" component of the MMCX client/server
offering that enables application sharing and
whiteboarding as well as desktop videoconferencing. The
OpenDVE multimedia collaborative framework simplifies the
creation of distributed real-time multimedia
communications applications.
"We selected InSoft as a partner for MMCX because
of their leadership in multimedia collaboration software
market," said Karyn Mashima, Vice President,
AT&T GBCS, Advanced Multimedia Communications Systems
Group. "We view Communique! as an important
part of bringing MMCX to market."
Daniel L. Harple, Jr., InSoft Chairman & CEO, said
"AT&T has made a major step for real-world
deployment of networked multimedia business solutions.
They have integrated key enabling technologies and made
them transparent and productive for the enterprise. To
make networked multimedia applications pervasive, they
must be as easy to use as the telephone. AT&T has
done this."
Jeffrey Marshall, Senior Managing Director with Bear
Stearns & Co., Inc., a major AT&T Definity PBX
customer, views the new AT&T MMCX platform and
service as significant value-add in terms of bringing
networked multimedia to the desktop. "AT&T, and
InSoft, have made exceptional progress in addressing many
of my key requirements. Ease-of-use, seamless network
integration, centralized management, and ubiquitous
endpoint connectivity are "must haves" before I
would even consider deployment."
InSoft, Inc., is a worldwide provider of
communications software and development tools, and market
leader in the sales of collaborative computing, desktop
conferencing and distributed digital video solutions. The
company's products, which enable transparent digital
convergence, are based on its open software architecture,
Digital Video Everywhere
(DVE). Its products are marketed directly to
commercial and government end-users, through leading
systems manufacturers and value-added resellers, for
applications such as financial services, computer-aided
design, engineering and exploration, telemedicine/health
care, entertainment, legal, telecommunications, and a
myriad of other information technology applications.
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