A provider of integrated switching, data networking and access and power equipment, Lucent is also bringing new capabilities to the Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) market. Separately, Lucent has announced new ADSL access solutions that reside on the customer premises and in the service providers` networks as well as in chip sets for computers.
"Lucent`s growing portfolio of enhanced infrastructure, communications applications and network services for voice over IP demonstrates our commitment to leading this emerging business," said Sean Owen-Jones, managing director at Lucent Technologies BCS southern Africa.
Leading the industry as the first fully standards-compliant H.323 conference server, Lucent`s MultiMedia Communications eXchange Server (MMCX) 2.1 reaches another milestone in the industry by extending multi-party media conferencing to a broad array of network connections, including ATM, wireless LANs, remote access and H.320 and H.323 endpoints.
Positioned as an IP-based tool for improving real-time communications in business networks, MMCX 2.1 also adds improved audio and video quality and increased interoperability by enabling UNIX workstations and PC endpoints to be co-resident on the same server.
In addition, Lucent is making the award-winning MMCX 2.1 more affordable for customers to deploy mixed media conferencing for the first time by significantly reducing the per-seat cost of implementing the MMCX in a customer`s IP-based network. The MMCX 2.1 also supports RADVision`s new OnLAN L2W - 323 Multimedia H.323 Gateway, making it possible for MMCX, H.323 and other H.320 clients, such as PictureTel`s room systems, to communicate over the same LAN. The gateway also enables MMCX users to tie their existing ISDN-based PC and room videoconferencing systems into the LAN in a cost-effective way.
To help network administrators reduce the amount of multimedia traffic on the WAN, the MMCX 2.1 now supports IP multicasting. In addition, for the first time, enterprises deploying large networks of MMCX servers can use sophisticated network management tools such as Hewlett-Packard Co.`s HP OpenView.
The H.323-compliant MMCX client and server software now supports Microsoft Windows PCs, UNIX workstations and telephony-based endpoints, enabling customers to establish spontaneous point-to-point or multi-party calls using a variety of voice, video and data.
"Customers are already taking advantage of these new conferencing and collaboration features to increase their productivity and enhance their competitive business edge," adds Owen-Jones.
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About Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell Laboratories is the research and development arm of the company. For more information about Lucent Technologies, visit its web site at http://www.lucent.com.
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