Accord Telecommunications Joins RADVision and Other Market Leaders to Showcase Newest IP Telephony Solutions at NetWorld+Interop

Business Wire, Sept 7, 1999

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 1999--

Accord's MGC-100(TM), The industry's leading platform for

real-time, interactive visual communication solutions for the

Internet and corporate Intranets, to be demonstrated in the

RADVision Pavilion

Accord Telecommunications, the leading manufacturer of real-time, interactive, visual communication solutions, today announced that they will be joining RADVision, Inc., a leading technology provider of award-winning industry-standard "building blocks" for voice, video, and data convergence, along with co-sponsors Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), a worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, Polycom(R), Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), a global leader in multimedia communication solutions, and ACT Networks (NASDAQ: ANET), a leading provider of key hardware and software technologies and products for the multi-service access segment of the global networking industry, in RADVision's Voice and Video Over IP Convergence Pavilion at NetWorld Interop to showcase innovative IP telephony and conferencing solutions for converged networks.

The Pavilion is located at booth 5168 in the Georgia World Congress Center from September 14 to 16.

"We are excited to be participating in the RADVision Voice and Video Over IP Convergence Pavilion at Networld Interop. This is a great time for the networking industry. With the Internet becoming viable for real-time communications, we will start seeing a whole new sector of visual communication applications from visual chat rooms to visual e-commerce and visual help desks. At the Pavilion you will see leading networking companies working together to ensure these applications are interoperable and that the best solutions are delivered," said Jules L. DeVigne, CEO of Accord Telecommunications.

At the Pavilion, attendees will see true end-to-end interoperability in multi-vendor hybrid IP networks. Accord's MGC-100 multipoint gateway and control unit will be highlighted to demonstrate the industry's first single visual communications platform solution that supports both ISDN and IP (H.320/H.323), including those systems on corporate intranets and the Internet.

"RADVision and Accord have been working together to leverage our complementary technologies for a long time. We are proud to be partners and have Accord demonstrate their state-of-the-art IP networking products in the Pavilion. Accord is a perfect example of moving beyond enabling technologies to commercially deployable solutions," said Michelle Blank, VP of Global Marketing.