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Lucent & Internet Phone
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> LUCENT VOWS TO MAKE INTERNET PHONES EASY TO USE
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> NEW YORK (Sep 17, 1996 7:53 p.m. EDT) - Lucent Technologies Inc.,
> vowing to make voice and video communication over the Internet as
> easy-to-use and accessible as the telephone, unveiled Tuesday a new
> business venture and several products designed to bring Internet
> communication into the mainstream.
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> The venture is charged with commercializing several ground-breaking
> Internet software commpression technologies developed at Lucent's Bell
> Laboratories research unit. Such technology shrinks the capacity
> required to transmit information over communications networks.
> Internet-based communications typically requires access to a personal
> computer, but Lucent envisions using the telephone or other consumer
> electronics device for the same purpose.
> Murray Hill, N.J.-based Lucent said its new Elemedia Internet business
> is now offering software that allows callers to hold
> "telephone-quality" conversations over the Internet.
Has anyone taken a look at this software with a view to an
encryption patch?
> Lucent said its strategy was to capitalize on software component
> technology developed by Bell Labs by licensing it to other Internet
> phone makers and established telephone carriers for use in their own
> products. Lucent does not intend to sell its products directly to the
> public.
As I recall, Jeff Weinstein mentioned that he was looking into
encryption for the Netscape Internet Phone. I would be curious if Netscape
is considering integrating the Lucent software.
> It said its products would be compatible with all major computer
> operating systems and Internet browsers software.
[...]
> Lucent will introduce a means for callers using standard telephones to
> place calls via the Internet to callers at conventional phones or to
> newer PC-based phones.
> "We believe voice communications between Internet PCs is much more
> valuable if those voice conversations can happen with people who have
> telephones," Pavarini said.
> Lucent officials said these new business-oriented products will become
> commercially available beginning in the first quarter of 1997 in the
> United States and be rolled out to selected overseas markets through
> the second quarter of 1997.
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