Daily News 2004/09/08

Polycom upgrading software 7.0 for its VSX products

　　Polycom, Inc., the world leading communication solutions provider, announced recently that it planned to provide software 7.0 specially designed for the Polycom VSX videoconference products. The new software is characterized by "surround" stereophonic sound, outstanding conference telephone and video system integration. It can support a videoconference, or add an audio-frequency conversation into the videoconference, and has the first video-based support system for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

　　This integrated solution not only provides a common-used phone-dialing interface, but also provides the videoconference techniques. It makes a full use of the investment made by the users into the SoundStation VTX conference telephone system and Polycom VSX video system to make it possible for them to realize integrated communications through software upgrading.

　　Polycom is a pioneer in this field who integrated IP voice, video, Web and data communications for SIP.

RADFORT ranks among the Top 100 E-government IT enterprises

　　On September 4 of 2004, the Third IT Top 100 E-government Enterprises was held in Beijing. Shenzhen Radfort Information Technology Company ranked among the top 100 in the video telecom industry for its outstanding achievements.

ADLINK hand in hand with Intel? at 「ITU Telecom Asia」

　　ADLINK TECHNOLOGY, The technological leader of the Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA), was hand in hand with Intel? at the 「ITU Telecom Asia」organized in Pusan, Korea for the market promotion of CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA products. It was the second cooperation of the two companies since the 「SUPERCOMM 2004」in Chicago, America in June of the year.

Ofcom, The Britain telecom regulator plans to develop markets for VoIP calls

　　The United Kingdom telecommunications industry regulator said it is still a difficult decision to make to help develop the market for VoIP calls.

　　Ofcom has already begun the preparations for VoIP services in Britain.
Ofcom anticipated that, the broad band Internet-based phone call will bring great convenience to the consumers, for it makes it possible for these consumers to get access to the services such as complicated information services, video telephone and large-scale telephone conference.

　　Ofcom also announced that it would make public discussions on how to resolve the problems on the functionality and reliability of the VoIP services.