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- Apple to Ship ISDN Interface Card
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- Copyright 1991, Apple Computer, Inc.
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- MOVED OVER PR NEWSWIRE AT 3:11 PM, PDT, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1991.
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- Contact:
- Leah Strauss
- Regis McKenna, Inc.
- 415-354-4479
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- Brooke Cohan
- Apple Computer, Inc.
- 408-974-3019
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- Apple to Ship ISDN Interface Card:
- Announces Macintosh Telephony Architecture
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- CUPERTINO, California--October 8, 1991--Apple Computer, Inc.,
- today announced its Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
- interface card for Macintosh personal computers in the United
- States and Canada. The company also outlined its architecture for
- integrating telephone functionality and services for the
- Macintosh.
- ISDN is an evolving set of international standards for unifying a
- broad range of voice, data, imaging and video communication
- services in one digital wide area network.
- The Apple ISDN NB Card will be the first Basic Rate NuBus
- interface card available in North America for connecting Macintosh
- personal computers to ISDN. The ISDN card will enable Macintosh
- computers to integrate telephone-based voice communications with
- computer-based high speed data communications, offering a single
- desktop tool from which users can perform business or personal
- communications.
- When combined with third party applications, the Apple ISDN NB
- Card will give users access to a wide variety of services,
- including centralized document-, image- and video-database
- applications, integrated screen-based telephony and office
- automation applications, and high-speed file transfer.
- Apple's telephony architecture establishes the framework within
- which Macintosh computers will support telephony integration. At
- the heart of this architecture is a new system software extension
- to the Macintosh Communications Toolbox called the Telephone
- Manager. The Telephone Manager provides a core set of telephone
- functions for developing and implementing integrated voice
- applications on the Macintosh.
- Apple has been working with developers worldwide to develop
- Macintosh-telephony integration in three areas: 1.) third-party
- hardware products that support a broad range of telephony services
- and networks, 2.) screen-based and programmed-based telephony
- products and 3.) mainstream applications that are "Telephony-
- Aware."
- The new ISDN card and Apple ISDN software, along with third party
- products from Cypress Research and Group Technologies, will beĀ
- demonstrated at the Interop 91 trade show and conference, October
- 9 - 11, 1991, in Apple's booth No. 3522. In addition, several
- other vendors have also announced support for the Telephony
- architecture and Apple's ISDN NB Card. They are: Farallon
- Computing, Magnum Software and Sunrise Services.
- At Interop, Cypress Research will demonstrate its PhonePro,
- designed to make telephony application building easy. With
- PhonePro's icon-based programming language, users simply use task
- icons connected with lines to create customized telephony
- applications. Any task involving phone, fax or voice can be
- performed by a Macintosh and the Apple ISDN NB card, including
- automated call attendant, voice mail and automated fax response.
- Group Technologies will show its Aspects product, the first
- software application to offer groups of people the ability to
- create electronic conferences in which they share written and
- graphic information. Using Aspects, conference participants on
- separate Macintosh computers can see and edit the same document,
- with changes appearing instantly on everyone's computers.
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- Apple's ISDN Product
- The new ISDN card comes with Apple ISDN Software, the Telephone
- Manager and ISDN Tools and an external power supply that enables
- the telephone to act independently of the computer when the
- computer is not in operation. The Telephone Manager and ISDN
- tools are available separately for developers worldwide who are
- interested in creating telephony and ISDN applications compatible
- with the Macintosh.
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- -- Apple ISDN NB Card and Software
- The Apple ISDN NB Card is an intelligent NuBus card compatible
- with any Macintosh with a NuBus. Like Apple's other NuBus
- communications cards, it uses the Macintosh Coprocessor Platform
- (MCP), based on a Motorola 68000 microprocessor and 512 kilobytes
- (KB) of RAM. The new card implements the CCITT ISDN basic rate
- interface (2B+D) and supports a standard analog DTMF (dual-tone
- multifrequency) telephone. Used with the Apple ISDN software, the
- ISDN card is compatible with AT&T 5ESS and Northern Telecom's DMS-
- 100 ISDN switches.
- The card and software support simultaneous voice and data circuit
- switched connections, providing direct access to 64/56 Kbps
- connections and support the CCITT V.120 and V.110 rate adaption
- protocols.
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- -- Telephone Manager
- The Telephone Manager provides a core set of telephone
- communications functions for the Macintosh Communications
- Toolbox, a high-level application programming interface (API).
- This functionality allows developers to write applications that
- run over a variety of telephone networks.
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- -- ISDN Tools
- The Apple ISDN Telephone Tool controls the telephone functions of
- the Apple ISDN card. The Apple ISDN Serial Tool controls the data
- communications function of the Apple ISDN card. The Apple ISDN
- Serial Tool is supported by the existing Connection Manager in the
- Communications Toolbox, allowing any of the applications that
- support the connection manager to take advantage of the higher
- speed data communications functions provided through Apple's ISDN
- NB Card's and the ISDN network.
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- Price and Availability
- The Apple ISDN NB Card with software and external power supply
- will be available commercially next month in the United States
- through authorized Apple dealers for a manufacturer's suggested
- retail price of $1099 U.S. Canadian availability is scheduled for
- the end of 1991. Prices outside the United States may vary.
- The Telephone Manager and ISDN tools will be available in early
- November to any development customer through APDA, Apple's source
- for developer tools. For ordering information, contact APDA at
- (800) 282-2732 in the United States, (800) 637-0029 in Canada, and
- (408) 562-3910 for other countries.
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- Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh and APDA registered trademarks of
- Apple Computer, Inc.; NuBus Card is a trademarks of Apple Computer,
- Inc.
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- All other trademarks are owned by their respective companies.
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