October 25, 1995
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
InSoft, Inc., a worldwide leader in LAN/WAN-based
real-time communications and collaborative software
solutions, today announced the industry's 1st-generation
H.323 LAN conferencing gateway that bridges InSoft's Communique! and OpenDVE-based
desktop videoconferencing solutions to H.320
ISDN/circuit-switched systems.
Called InSoft GlobalConference, the gateway implements
emerging ITU protocols for H.323 gateways, including
initial implementations of H.22Z multiplexing, H.245
controlling, H.261 video codecs and G.7XX audio codecs.
GlobalConference is fully H.320-compatible and will be
software upgradeable to the complete H.323 specification
when finalized.
The H.323 specification will define standards for
terminal, equipment and services for multimedia
communications over LANs communicating to systems
connected to telephony networks such as ISDN.
Support for H.323 terminals is incorporated into
InSoft's Digital Video
Everywhere (DVE) communications software
architecture, which enables Communique! and
applications developed to the InSoft OpenDVE
collaborative multimedia API to initiate and receive
H.320 desktop conferencing requests.
Daniel L Harple, Jr., Chairman & CEO of InSoft,
said, "Running over all network and compression
types is essential to enabling complete digital
convergence within the enterprise infrastructure, making
endpoint interoperability transparent and ubiquitous.
These deliverables have always been key customer
requirements for large-scale deployment."
"Likewise, we are committed to allowing
interoperability between various collaborative and
conferencing applications offerings," said Harple.
"By incorporating industry standards such as
H.320/323 and native telephony support into our
multi-algorithm and network abstraction layers of DVE, we
will be the first company to deliver seamless
interoperability to any conferencing endpoint within a
diverse enterprise network."
Harple added that InSoft is aggressively continuing
engineering efforts to maintain its established
technological leadership for multimedia tools and
applications on packet and cell networks.
InSoft GlobalConference allows for bi-directional
calling, from LAN-to-WAN or WAN-to-LAN. It connects to
Ethernet or cell-based LANs and to the WAN using ISDN.
InSoft GlobalConference will ship in December with a
list price starting at $7950.
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, or 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/healthcare, entertainment, legal,
telecommunications, and a myriad of other information
technology applications.
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