Intel Video Conferencing Products to Include Microsoft Netmeeting* Software

HILLSBORO, Ore., April 28, 1997 – Intel Corporation today announced plans to incorporate Microsoft's NetMeeting software in its industry-leading video conferencing product family with ProShare® technology. This will allow the users of Intel's video conferencing products to seamlessly communicate through PC-based video conferences with users of Microsoft NetMeeting and other products that include NetMeeting.

"Interoperability is the key to making PC conferencing ubiquitous," said D. Craig Kinnie, vice president and general manager, Intel's Internet and Communications Group. "The inclusion of NetMeeting technology within Intel's conferencing products will deliver greater benefits of compatibility and communication to the PC user."

Intel video conferencing products with ProShare technology are compatible with international communication standards (H.320, H.323, H.324 and T.120) and are interoperable with other standards-compliant conferencing products. The Intel conferencing family with ProShare technology includes:

• The Intel ProShare Video System 200, the world's leading desktop video conferencing solution, for business conferencing via ISDN and LAN networks
• The Intel Video Phone with ProShare technology for video phone calls over standard phone lines, and
• The Intel Internet Video Phone with ProShare technology for audio and video phone calls over the Internet.

Intel plans to add NetMeeting technology to these and other Intel conferencing products.

Intel and Microsoft have worked closely to promote and deliver conferencing interoperability. Last year, Intel and Microsoft announced a joint technology exchange whereby Intel licensed its H.323 conferencing technology to Microsoft, and Microsoft licensed its NetMeeting data conferencing technology to Intel. As a result of this technology exchange, NetMeeting uses Intel's standards-based H.323 communication technology for Internet telephony interoperability.

"Microsoft and Intel have been working closely together to promote H.323 as the standard for Internet conferencing," said John Ludwig, vice president, Internet Client and Collaboration Division, Microsoft. "Our joint technology exchange will help ensure that we're able to deliver interoperable conferencing solutions that bring together data, voice and video capabilities."

"Intel expects to offer the broadest and best quality products that incorporate NetMeeting," said Scott Darling, general manager of Intel's Business Conferencing Products Operations. "Our leading conferencing products provide everything a business needs to video conference over the intranet/Internet as well as communicate with other desktop and room video conferencing systems."

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