Quicktime Conferencing Fact

QuickTıme Conferencing When QuickTıme emerged as the standard for software-based on-screen video, new opportunities arose for people to interact, exchange, and share data. Apple applied this QuickTıme experience to enhancing the way users communicate and collaborate—via QuickTıme Conferencing. A standards-based (H.320 and T.120) multimedia framework, QuickTıme Conferencing supports interactive capabilities—such as videoconferencing, “white board” collaboration, and file transfer—whether over the Internet, on a local network, via a dedicated ISDN line, or by high-speed modem. As an operating system extension, QuickTıme Conferencing provides a scalable and extensible development environment. ®

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With QuickTıme Conferencing, people can work together over a packetswitched (such as Ethernet or via the Internet) or circuit-switched (such as ISDN) network—and see real-time video; hear real-time audio; and collaborate on screen using a “white board,” or shared-window, program.

QuickTıme Conferencing In fact, QuickTıme Conferencing software is so extensible that developers can use it to create all sorts of new collaborative applications, or add new capabilities to existing ones. With QuickTıme Conferencing, working with others—on a network or over the Internet—can become a collaborative multimedia experience. As people look for different and better ways to communicate, QuickTıme offers the ideal platform for both developers and their customers. By providing the foundation for a truly interactive workspace—one that combines the immediacy of the desktop with instant, real-time access to other people no matter where they are—QuickTıme Conferencing software enables people to work collaboratively in ways they couldn’t before. And in addition to these types of point-to-point communications, QuickTıme Conferencing supports multiple-party sessions (in which more than two people can participate), as well as the one-way broadcasting of a session that can be viewed by an unlimited number of users.

Key Facts About QuickTıme Conferencing • QuickTıme Conferencing is fully digital and can support applications running on existing local and wide area networks. • Digital video, audio, and data streams generated during a live session are completely network independent and can function over LANs, WANs, and the Internet. • QuickTıme Conferencing sessions can be multicast (the live distribution of audio and video data streams) to multiple viewers. • You can use the underlying QuickTıme Conferencing technology to create custom videoconferencing and collaborative white board applications. • QuickTıme Conferencing supports leading standards for compression/decompression of audio, video, and collaboration, including H.320 and T.120. • You can exchange video, audio, text, and graphics with other users whose computers are running QuickTıme Conferencing software. • The software enables conferencing with PCs, roombased, and roll-about systems that use the H.320 standard. • Two-way or multiparty conferencing sessions can be recorded over local area networks for reviewing at a later time, for distribution, and for archiving. • QuickTıme Conferencing works with popular networking standards (such as TCP/IP and Ethernet) as well as over 28.8 kbps modem connections (audio and white board collaboration only). Ordering Information • QuickTıme Conferencing is available at retail as the QuickTıme Conferencing Kit (Order #M4490), and includes software and a high-quality, affordable color camera that sits atop your display. QuickTıme Conferencing software is also available from the QuickTıme Conferencing web site at: http://qtc.quicktime.apple.com/ • Upgrades to the QuickTıme Conferencing Kit for use with ISDN lines are the QuickTıme Conferencing ISDN Kits, available in a NuBus version (Order #M4585) and a PCI version (Order #M4616). These kits, available through Apple resellers and VARs, provide the highestquality videoconferencing experience. For more information on Apple QuickTıme Conferencing, visit the QuickTıme Conferencing home page at the Internet World Wide Web site: http://qtc.quicktime.apple.com/

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