InSoft® Targets Internet Real Time Multimedia Users and Developers With First Interactive Collaborative Environment ...

... brings "commercial-quality" data collaboration, audio and video to users running 14.4 Kbps modems starting at $49.95; Multimedia toolkit allows developers to build fully distributed, collaborative multimedia applications.

Mechanicsburg, PA, January 8, 1996 -- InSoft, Inc., a worldwide leader in network-based communications and collaborative multimedia software for the Intranet, today announced a suite of Internet applications and tools that will enable users to leverage a host of HTML, data collaboration, audio and video applications with seamless connectivity between the Internet, Intranet and telecommunications services.

Called Interactive Internet Collaborative Environment, or IICE, it consists of commercial quality, standards-based data collaboration, audio and video applications called CoolTalk 14.4, CoolTalk 28.8 and CoolView; and, a powerful multimedia developer toolkit called ICEmaker.

Daniel L. Harple, Jr., Chairman & CEO of InSoft, Inc., said, "IICE brings to the Internet community a much higher level of quality in real time multimedia that is standards-based, fully extensible and affordably priced, unlike other point products that are limited in functionality and user application.

"Providing these real world Internet multimedia solutions is a key component within our collaborative framework and an InSoft core competency," said Harple. "InSoft is the only provider delivering a holistic enterprise approach to desktop multimedia collaboration by providing a logical path to seamlessly bridge the Internet, Intranet and telecommunications services."

The Interactive Internet Collaborative Environment, IICE, platform supports Windows '95 Multimedia PCs and includes:

CoolTalk 14.40 and CoolTalk 28.8. A powerful Shared Whiteboard and Chat Tool with high quality GSM inband audio for 14.4 and 28.8 Kbps modems respectively; supports Microsoft® Sound System compatible audio boards. List price: CoolTalk 14.4 ($49.95); CoolTalk 28.8 ($69.95).

CoolView. Incorporates H.261 desktop videoconferencing with Shared Whiteboard and Chat Tool functionality. Runs over 28.8 Kbps modems and supports Video-for-Windows® compliant video capture cards and Microsoft® Sound System compatible audio boards. List price is $149.95.

ICEMaker. A Collaborative Multimedia Developer Toolkit that enables programmers to build fully distributed multimedia Internet applications that can support real-time audio and video. These applications can also "plugin" to CoolTalk and CoolView. List Price is $795.99.

The InSoft Internet Communications Server. Brings multimedia calling features to corporate Web sites, enabling real-time Web-based inquiry handling. It is the only technology to integrate the Internet with industry standard telephony capabilities such as call transfer, hold, add/drop, conference calling, hunt groups and H.320 connectivity for videoconferencing.

CoolTalk for Windows '95 will be available from InSoft by February 1996, (http://ice.insoft.com).

IICE, as with all InSoft applications and development tools, is a component of the InSoft OpenDVE multimedia collaborative framework. OpenDVE enables cross-platform collaboration between Windows 3.1, Win'95 and Windows NT-based PCs, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Digital Equipment, Silicon Graphics and IBM UNIX workstations; transparent network connectivity between Ethernet, ATM, FDDI, Token Ring, Frame Relay, SMDS, ISDN and wireless; and, video interoperability for MJPEG, Indeo, H.261, CellB and DVE2.

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/health care, entertainment, legal, telecommunications, and a myriad of other information technology applications.