| These companies have announced support for Microsoft NetShow. |
|
|
3Com Corp.
PR Contact: Bob Roman (408) 764-5237 3Com Corporation has helped more than 25 million people gain access to critical information through high-speed networks. Designed to serve large enterprises, service providers, small offices, and homes, 3Com products provide a scalable architecture to meet the present and future connectivity needs of today's users. With research and development on three continents, 3Com is one of the data-networking industry's largest and fastest growing companies. 3Com's innovative marketing, engineering, sales, and support simplify communication, optimize network reliability, and protect customer investments.
URL: Aimtech Corp. PR Contact: Dave Conti (603) 883-0220 ext. 26 Aimtech Corporation, a privately held company with offices in Nashua, N.H., Denver, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Dusseldorf, and London, develops and markets multimedia software products including IconAuthor and CBT Express for creating corporate interactive multimedia applications. Ascend Communications, Inc. PR Contact: Kevin Gallagher (510) 743-7830 Ascend Communications, Inc. is a leading, worldwide provider of remote networking solutions for corporate central sites, Internet service provider points of presence, remote offices, mobile workers, and telecommuters. Ascend develops , manufactures, markets, sells, and supports products which utilize bandwidth on demand to extend existing corporate networks for applications such as remote LAN access, Internet access, telecommuting, SOHO connectivity, and videoconferencing/multimedia access. Asymetrix Corp. PR Contact: Anne Bagley (206) 637-5859
About Asymetrix Corporation
URL: AudioNet PR Contact: Michael Quint (404) 897-2300 AudioNet, the largest broadcast network on the Internet, Webcasts live and on-demand audio and video content, including radio and television, the play-by-play of sporting events, live concerts, conferences, speeches, and other special events to Web users around the world. Founded in 1995, AudioNet has built a media distribution network with the infrastructure and bandwidth capacity to support the largest number of simultaneous listeners on the Internet. AudioNet has produced and delivered the largest and highest profile Internet broadcasts ever, including the keynote address of Bill Gates at COMDEX/Fall '96, Super Bowls XXX and XXXI, the President's State of the Union Address, the NCAA Final Four basketball tournament, and World Championship Wrestling. AudioNet's client list includes industry leaders such as Microsoft, Intel, AT&T, C-SPAN, Price Waterhouse, the NFL, the NHL, and Major League Baseball. Bay Networks, Inc. PR Contact: Barbara Ewen (508)436-3449 Bay Networks, Inc. is a worldwide leader in the internetworking market, providing a full line of products that serve enterprises, small offices and, mobile workers. The company offers market-leading LAN and ATM switches, hubs, routers, remote and Internet access solutions, and network management applications, all unified by the BaySIS(tm) architecture. With revenue of $1.7 billion over the past four fiscal quarters, Bay Networks markets and supports its products from 121 offices around the world, providing 7x24 support coverage.
URL: Cabletron Systems PR Contact: Darren Orzechowski (603) 337-1282 Cabletron Systems is a recognized leader in providing high-performance intranet and Internet solutions, including LAN and WAN switches, remote access products and advanced network and systems management software. Under its Synthesis product framework, Cabletron markets products to businesses and customers throughout the world for linking and managing enterprise-wide networks.
Cabletron's common stock is traded over the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol
CS. Over the last four quarters, the company has reported record revenue of $1.4
billion. Cabletron's World Wide Web site can be reached on the Internet at
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. PR Contact: Jessica Johannes (415) 562-4000 x326 Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is the market leader in global network security software. The company commanded 40% of the worldwide firewall market in 1995, according to an IDC study issued in February, 1996. The company's flagship product, Check Point FireWall-1, protects internal and external network communication for thousands of organizations of all sizes. Its products are sold worldwide through numerous OEM partners, distributors, VARs, systems and network integrators, and Internet Service Providers. Listed on the NASDAQ under the symbol "CHKPF," the company has U.S. headquarters in Redwood City, California, and international headquarters in Ramat-Gan, Israel. For product information, please call (415) 562-0400, e-mail info@checkpoint.com, or visit Check Point at http://www.checkpoint.com.
URL: Cisco Systems Inc. PR Contact: Marcy Schrader (408) 527-2406 Cisco Systems Offers Networking Choices Multimedia applications are fast becoming an essential part of business productivity tools. Most organizations can implement multimedia applications today on their existing data networks without expensive and disruptive upgrades. Cisco has developed comprehensive networking technology to provide scalable bandwidth, consistent quality of service, and the efficient multipoint communication that is required to support networked multimedia. The Cisco IOS(tm) software and CiscoWorks network management products, together with Cisco's wide variety of router and switching products, provide a complete networked multimedia solution for integrated complex networks. Cisco's blueprint for networked multimedia provides an architecture that grows with the needs of the organization, from a LAN, to a campus-wide network, to a WAN, providing investment protection for many years to come. For more information, point your browser to http://www.cisco.com. ConnectOS Corporation PR Contact: Dana Sue Childs (800) 633-6998 ConnectOS Corporation provides NetShow hosting services, NetShow Live and On-demand event production/management/hosting, content conversion to ASF, NetShow Training (ConnectOS is writing some of the TechEd'97 modules, ISP guides etc.), and ConnectOS is currently hosting several of the NetShow 2.0 links found on the Microsoft Website. Check out KISW, Twisted Radio, Microsoft RandomCAM, and TwistedTunes On-Demand. ConnectOS Corporation is a Microsoft Solution Provider, MCSE, and an Internet Specialist.
URL: Cycon Technolgies PR Contact: Chris Carlson, (703) 256-1279 CYCON Technologies, the product division of Cypress Consulting, Inc., created the CYCON Labyrinth firewall to provide a complete network security device by integrating intelligent connection tracking with true bidirectional network address translation. For product information or a free, fully functional 30-day evaluation copy, please call (703) 256-1279, e-mail info@cycon.com, or visit our Web site at http://www.cycon.com/. Digital Equipment Corp. PR Contact: Ken McDonnell (508)493-5258 Digital Equipment Corporation is a world leader in open client/server solutions, from personal computing to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's scalable Alpha and Intel platforms, storage, networking, software, and services, together with industry-focused solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace.
URL: Digital Renaissance Inc. PR Contact: Rob Martell (416) 535-4222 X223 Digital Renaissance is a New Media Engineering firm that has been designing and developing interactive communication solutions since 1990. As an integrated technology company, Digital Renaissance has been a leader in the field of new media communications. The company is dedicated to continuous innovation in the areas of training and education, corporate communications, systems architecture and integration, and the Internet. Digital Renaissance as developed a product suite called TAG, which adds interactivity to streaming media for products such as NetShow. TAG accesses network databases to obtain the links, and syncs them with the streaming media. TAG is the first step toward HTML for streaming media.
URL: The Duck Corporation The Duck Corporation, a pioneer in digital video, was founded in 1992 to develop TV-quality video playback and interactivity on computer and video-game platforms. The company's core technologies, TrueMotion and Comprending, were designed to facilitate the use of interactive video in consumer titles, and multiple agreements with major content providers and game developers make Duck one of the leading providers of solutions for the computer entertainment industry. Recent innovations intended for the corporate marketplace include TrueMotion RT, work with DVD-ROM, and networked video. The company is based in New York City's Tribeca Film Center and is privately-held. More information on the company and its products can be found on Duck's Web site.
URL: Eloquent, Inc. Eloquent develops and markets computer-delivered seminar products and services that enable Global 2000 companies to reduce costs and increase the effectiveness of corporate communications and training. The company is the first to develop and market an intranet-based multimedia solution for capturing speakers and their presentations and delivering them over standard networks and CD-ROMs to desktop PCs. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Eloquent provides full production services for turnkey delivery of custom content. Eloquent's software products currently run on Microsoft's Windows and Windows NT operating systems, and it is currently integrating its products with the NetShow streaming media platform. FORE Systems, Inc. FORE Systems is a worldwide leader in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of high-performance networking products based on ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) technology. FORE offers the most comprehensive ATM product line available today including ForeRunner® ATM switches and adapter cards, PowerHub® LAN switches and CellPathTM WAN Multiplexers for ATM connectivity, ForeThoughtTM Internetworking Software, and ForeViewTM Network Management Software. FORE has delivered ATM solutions to thousands of customers including Fortune 500 companies, telecommunications service providers, government agencies, research institutions, and universities.
URL: Fraunhofer Institute IIS PR Contact: Harald Popp +49 9131 776 340 In the field of perceptual audio coding, the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS has become a world leader among international research organizations. Fraunhofer IIS is the main developer of the very powerful audio source coding scheme that has been standardised as ISO-MPEG Audio Layer-3. Fraunhofer IIS has contributed to the telecommunication community by introducing excellent sound transmission via ISDN, digital broadcasting, and the Internet. A further task of IIS research is systems for wireless data transmission or mobile communication, and low bit-rate coding of audio and video signals. Besides that, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs, ICs) and systems, including microsystems for use in information processing, telecommunication, automation, and mechanical engineering, are developed and realized to presales level. The Fraunhofer Gesellschaft e.V. is the leading organization of applied research in Germany. It employs a staff of 8,000, and operates around 50 research institutes in Germany and some other countries (For example, the USA), with a research volume of DM 1 billion.
URL: Innovative Quality Software (IQS) PR Contact: Bridgette Evander (702) 435-9077 IQS makes just what their name implies: Innovative - Quality - Software! They specialize in audio-related applications for the Windows environment. Their award-winning software is used worldwide by people in every segment of the audio industry; from studios and broadcast facilities, to video post houses and schools, to corporations and governments, to musicians and DJs. IQS products are extremely powerful, very affordable, and truly useful to anyone working with audio. They represent some of the best values in digital audio to be found anywhere! Craftsmanship and commitment to excellence is what they're all about. Interactive Computer Television, Inc. PR Contact: David Anderson (413) 587-2193 Interactive Computer Television, Inc. (InterACT) announces the development of its "Producer" software product. Producer is an integrated television production system which supports as an output format Microsoft's ASF file format, making Producer an ideal production solution for Microsoft NetShow targeted content. Producer also supports the production of standard video material as well as interactive material for distribution on Digital Versatile Disk. Targeted at professional, corporate, and industrial video producers, Producer will help those users prepare to supply content for NetShow on corporate intranets and the Internet. Producer will ship to beta sites in the second quarter of 1997 and will ship to customers in the fourth quarter. Prices start at $4,995, for a software-only system and range up to $30,000 for a full on-line workstation with hardware-accelerated special effects, and video processing. For more information, fax InterACT at (413) 587-2195 or e-mail info@interact-tv.com. Iterated Systems PR Contact: Jim Cavedo: (404) 264-8000 Iterated Systems is a leader in digital image representation. Iterated is developing solutions for the convergence of the publishing and networking markets to make delivery of video and still-image information a network and World Wide Web expectation. The Iterated product line pioneers a new world of low-bandwidth multimedia publishing technologies and enhances online image transmission. Iterated was founded in 1987 and has offices in both the United States and the United Kingdom. LanOptics Inc. PR Contact: Steve Flaig (972)738-6950 NetGuard was founded in 1995 as a subsidiary of LanOptics. Founded in 1990, LanOptics is a publicly held company whose shares are traded on the NASDAQ National Market System under the symbol LNOPF. In its first six years, LanOptics has enjoyed several technological breakthroughs and business firsts. These include the introduction in 1990 of the first intelligent token ring hub, StarNet, the first multi-protocol stackable hub with integrated Cisco AccessPro technology introduced in 1994, and Guardian the first Windows NT-supported Firewall software. World headquarters for LanOptics are located in Migdal Ha-Emek, outside Haifa, Israel, and U.S. headquarters are located in Carrollton, Texas. Lernout & Hauspie PR Contact: Vincent Vandenberghe (617) 238-0960, x326 Lernout & Hauspie(L&H) is an international leader in the development of speech technology for commercial products in four markets: Telephony & Communications, Computers & Multimedia, Automotive & Industrial, and Business & Consumer electronics.
URL: Liquid Audio Inc. PR Contact: Gerry Kearby (415) 562-0886 Founded in early 1996, Liquid Audio is dedicated to providing the music industry with the tools needed to utilize the rapidly growing online environment for the distribution of professional quality music titles, and providing consumers with the ability to access music over the Internet. Formed by veterans of the music industry and professional recording engineers, and funded by theleading software venture capital firm of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Liquid Audio is leading the convergence of music and technology to establish the Internet as a new medium for music publishing.
URL: Lucent Technologies Lucent Technologies designs, builds, and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, consumer and business telephone systems, and microelectronics components. The company was formed as a result of AT&T's restructuring and became a fully independent company -- separate from AT&T -- on Sept. 30, 1996. Macromedia, Inc. PR Contact: Mary Leong (415) 252.2118
About Macromedia
URL: MGI Software Corp. PR Contact: Josef Zankowicz (905) 764-7000 X250 MGI Software was formed to lead the change in the way we picture the world. By transforming the way we use photos, video, and other multimedia on PCs and the Internet, MGI has already established a leading reputation for innovation with products like MGI PC PhotoStarter Kit and MGI PhotoSuite, which have quickly become best-selling products. MGI's latest award-winning entry, MGI VideoWave, is the first video publishing software that allows both novice and professional users to create video movies as easily as using text and graphics in a desktop publishing environment. MGI VideoWave is a native 32-bit program for Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT that takes advantage of today's most advanced multimedia PC technologies, including MPEG, QuickTime, Intel Indeo, Microsoft ActiveMovie, and Microsoft NetShow. The product is expected to be available in first quarter, 1997 at an estimated street price of U.S. $99.99 (Cdn $129.99). MGI has its head office in Richmond Hill, Ontario, and other offices in the United States and Europe. MGI's shares trade on the Canadian Dealing Network (symbol:MGIS), the OTC market in Toronto. Milkyway Networks Corp. PR Contact: David-Della Maggiore (408) 566-0800 X628 Milkyway Networks is a leading worldwide provider of network security solutions. A public company (TSE:MKY) headquarted in Ottawa, Ontario, Milkyway Networks' security solutions help safeguard the corporation's information network while allowing users transparent access to the Internet. The Company's flagship product, Black Hole(TM) firewall, provides users with Virtual Private Networking (VPN) capability with the strongest key management available, utilizing X.500 directories and X.500 certificates that are deployed on the network today. Black Hole is one of the few firewalls on the market today that support both TCP and UDP applications. Black Hole is also unique in that it ubiquitously monitors all 64,000 TCP and UDP ports for intrusion attempts.
URL: MultiMedia Access Corporation PR Contact: Lynne Auerbach (214) 350-0080 MultiMedia Access Corporation (Nasdaq: MMAC) develops and markets advanced video communications products for the PC and workstation marketplaces. Applications include desktop videoconferencing, Internet & intranet video communications, video-based training, surveillance, distance learning, telemedicine, and video distribution for office buildings and campuses. MMAC is a leading supplier of standards-based communications products to the video communications industry. MultiMedia Access products and systems are available from leading resellers, system integrators, OEMs, and custom application developers. Additional information is available on MMAC's web site.
URL: NeTpower PR Contact: Patti_Fortuna@netpower.com (408) 522-5848
URL: OPTICOM
Am Weichselgarten 7 The Palace PR Contact: Will Ludlam, KVO Public Relations (503) 221-2355 The Palace was first released on the World Wide Web in 1995 and has since become the leader in virtual multimedia communities. With over a million Palace downloads, Shockwave support, and the addition of new UNIX and Windows NT servers, The Palace offers both a simple and scalable solution for corporations interested in developing communities as an extension of their Web presence. The server provides a compelling, graphical space, a Palace, where visitors can move and actually talk to other people (as avatars). You can design your Palace yourself: an auditorium, a showroom, a classroom, a store, or anything that will fulfill your organization's mission. People will be able to participate in real time discussions, focus groups, online learning, performances, games, and so on. There are already over a thousand Palaces around the world. Many well-known institutions have installed palaces on their sites; from Intel, Sony Pictures, Howard Rheingold's Electric Minds, Entrepreneur Magazine, and NEC, to the Dallas Cowboys, Ralph Lauren, and Syracuse University. More information about The Palace, including a free trial version, can be accessed through the World Wide Web at http://www.thepalace.com. Precept Software Inc. PR Contact: Judy Estrin (415) 845-5200 Precept develops and markets audio and video broadcasting solutions that deliver full-screen, full-motion video to PC desktops over existing IP-based private networks and the Internet. Precept's IP/TV software provides real-time, synchronized digital audio and video streams using IP Multicast and the new Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). IP/TV can be used to stream or view information using a wide variety of audio or video codecs, including GSM. IP/TV is used for live video applications, such as TV to the desktop, corporate communications, news and events updates, computer-based training, and telemedicine. The IP/TV client will be able to be used to receive multicasted audio transmissions from Microsoft's NetShow Server. Progressive Networks PR Contact: Jay Wampold (206) 674-2295 Progressive Networks' RealAudio client-server software system enables Internet and online users equipped with conventional multimedia personal computers and voice-grade telephone lines to browse, select, and play back audio or audio-based multimedia content on demand, in real time. Since its introduction last April, over seven million RealAudio Players have been distributed, with over 25,000 being downloaded from the RealAudio Web site (http://www.realaudio.com) daily. Thousands of RealAudio Servers are currently delivering audio and streaming multimedia content on the Web. Specom Technologies Corporation Contact: sales@specom.com Specom develops Internet video and audio communication products and collaborative systems for the business, educational, and consumer electronic and computer environments. SuiteVISIONS is the flagship of Specom's product line. SuiteVISIONS includes Specom's VisionTIME IVP (Internet VideoPHONE), VisionCAM (a 24-bit, 16.7 million-color digital parallel port camera) and trial versions of InternetFAX and ColorLINK, as well as a "suite" of third-party software including Microsoft's NetShow Player and Content-Creation Tools. Sonic Foundry, Inc. PR Contact: Stacey Moran (608) 256-3133 X13 Sonic Foundry, Inc. develops and markets a line of digital audio editing products for the Windows platform. Its award-winning sound editor, Sound Forge 4.0, offers extensive processing tools and effects to audio producers including multimedia authors, Internet content developers, and musicians. Sound Forge 4.0 supports Microsoft ASF and AVI files, in addition to a multitude of popular sound file formats. A full line of proprietary and third-party plug-ins designed to perform specific tasks is available for the Sound Forge program. Starburst Communications Inc.
PR Contact: Stephen Collins
Christine LeCompte StarBurst Communications Corporation, the multicast solutions company, is a leader in developing innovative solutions for electronic information delivery via multicast networks. The Concord, Mass.-based company is privately held and venture-capital funded. More information can be found at StarBurst's World Wide Web site: http://www.StarBurstcom.com.
URL: Starlight Networks
PR Contact: Melanie Flanigal, Eiler Communications (415) 548-9098 Starlight Networks is the market leader providing mixed media services over enterprise networks with its StarWorks® and StarWare® InterMedia middleware products. StarWorks and StarWare provide mixed-media storage management and network delivery management functions to ensure reliable delivery of video and audio to the desktop over today's networks and intranets, including 10BaseT, 100VG, Fast Ethernet, Token-Ring, FDDI, and ATM. StarWorks software open systems approach supports all of the popular video formats and network operating systems on PCs, Macintosh, and UNIX systems. StarWare is a Novell NetWare-based video networking software solution.
URL: Technologic Inc.
PR Contact: Betsy Jinright, Technologic, Inc., (770) 522-0222 Founded in 1992, Atlanta-based Technologic, Inc. provides secure Internet applications, products, and services. The company's Interceptor firewall combines individual user authentication for Web access with the ability to control access by URL and/or time of day. This combination gives system administrators the greatest possible flexibility in improving accountability and productivity, while providing transparent appropriate Web access. Certified to meet firewall security requirements defined by the National Computer Security Association (NCSA), Interceptor can be configured and managed remotely from Windows NT and Windows 95, Macintosh, and UNIX workstations. For product information, please call (770) 522-0222, e-mail info@tlogic.com or visit Technologic at http://www.tlogic.com. Telos Systems PR Contact: Steve Church (216) 241-7225 Telos' new Internet audio suite leverages years of professional codec design experience to allow users to experience the highest possible audio quality in net streaming applications. Telos Systems has been making equipment for the demanding requirements of the radio and television broadcast markets for over a decade. The company is widely known by radio and television engineers for its famous Zephyr ISDN high-fidelity digital audio codecs, systems which allow remote broadcasting with CD quality over ISDN telephone lines. The Zephyr is used by more than a thousand broadcast operations worldwide, including such prestigious organizations as NPR and Britain's BBC. It is employed behind the scenes for such applications as remote sports broadcasting, live concert pick-ups, studio-to-transmitter links, and newsgathering. VDOnet Corp. PR Contact: Abigail Johnson, Roeder-Johnson (415) 548-1850 VDOnet Corp., based in Palo Alto, CA, has developed and markets technology and products enabling Internet video broadcasting and multicasting (VDOLive and VDOCast™ and video telephony (VDOPhone™) on the Internet and over regular telephone lines and private networks. The company was founded in 1995 and today has offices in the U.S. and Israel. It has raised $10 million in funding from private sources, Battery Ventures, and NYNEX.
URL: Vivo Software, Inc. PR Contact: Pete Zaballos (617)899-8900, ext. 345 Vivo Software, Inc. (Waltham, MA) is a leader in enabling the Web video publishing revolution and new Web-based businesses. Founded in 1993 by a team of internationally recognized experts in video and audio signal processing technology, Vivo develops and markets VivoActive software, the only commercially available solution for producing and viewing low-bandwidth, on-demand streaming media (video and audio) over the World Wide Web using standard Web servers. Vivo's patented compression technology also is licensed to PictureTel Corp., which uses it as the basis for PC-based videoconferencing products.
URL: Voxware, Inc. PR Contact: Jamie Rapperport (415) 614-0702 Voxware, Inc. develops, markets, licenses, and supports digital speech processing and audio technologies and solutions. Voxware's MetaVoice™ and MetaSound™ coding technologies are designed to reproduce high-quality speech and audio while requiring very low communications bandwidth and processing power. Voxware's technologies enable users to create a new generation of audio/speech-enhanced communications and interactive products for the Internet and other bandwidth-constrained environments. Additional information about Voxware, Inc. can be obtained by sending e-mail to vox@voxware.com or by calling (609) 514-4100. VXtreme, Inc. PR Contact: Jamie Rapperport (415) 614-0702 VXtreme offers a complete software-only solution -- the Web Theater product family -- for high-quality business video over the Internet. With breakthrough compression and network delivery technology, the Web Theater products allow organizations to create and deliver high-quality, real-time Internet video without costly upgrades to existing networks and computers. VXtreme's product family consists of Web Theater Server, Web Theater Client, and Web Theater Producer. For more information visit, VXtreme's home page at http://www.vxtreme.com. Waves PR contact: Dave Harris (415) 488-1137 Xing Technology Corp. PR Contact: Christiane Petite (805) 783-0400, x2270 A pioneer in digital compression software, Xing Technology Corporation is the leading provider of multimedia Internet and intranet applications for creating, delivering, and playing digital audio and video. Xing has licensed audio and video compression and broadcast technologies to Microsoft, Intel, Bellcore, NTT Japan, Fujitsu, Samsung, Hewlett Packard, and IBM. Live broadcasting customers include NBC Desktop Video, Reuters, Bloomberg, Capitol Records, c/net, and Sportsline USA. Information on the company and its products can be obtained at Xing's Web site, www.xingtech.com, or by calling (805) 783-0400.
|
|
© 1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Legal Notices
|
http://www.3com.com/