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IBM FIRST TO GUARANTEE QUALITY MULTIMEDIA FOR LANS
November 22, 1993
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 15, 1993 . . . IBM today announced LAN Server
Ultimedia, the first product to provide uncompromised quality to
multimedia clients attached to a LAN. IBM LAN Server Ultimedia
is offered as a multimedia extension for IBM LAN Server.
"Customers have said they want to simply step to multimedia
applications by adding multimedia to their current and future LAN
systems," said Art Olbert, director of LAN Systems for IBM Personal
Software Products division. "LAN Server Ultimedia extends LAN
Server 3.0 and uses advanced technology to support distributed
multimedia applications which are pleasing to the eyes and ears."
Television-quality full motion video requires 30 frames per
second, which can be affected by heavy data traffic on a LAN. Many
products allow multimedia scaling, which means the number of frames
per second is reduced to allow the LAN bandwidth to accommodate heavy
data traffic, but full motion video is lost. The video or audio can
break up when the capacity of the LAN has been exceeded.
LAN Server Ultimedia is unique in its ability to guarantee users
the bandwidth they need for quality multimedia. Any Token Ring or
Ethernet LAN with more than 10 nodes where multimedia applications
are in use are at risk of bandwidth overload. Only with LAN Server
Ultimedia can you continue to guarantee quality multimedia delivery
to specified clients as more and more multimedia clients are added to
the LAN.
LAN Server Ultimedia extends the capabilities of IBM OS/2 LAN
Server. It provides more efficiency, supports Windows*, DOS and OS/2
multimedia clients, and Ethernet and Token Ring LANs. It is
transparent to the variety of multimedia data types and applications
used, and manages the ratio of multimedia versus traditional data
at the server.
Commix SP Inc. has developed a number of multimedia products
for OS/2, Windows and Macintosh. "Commix believes LAN Server
Ultimedia represents the future of LANs today," said Steve
Giordano, Commix system administrator. "It has the best delivery
mechanism I've seen and I've seen most of the LANs and their
multimedia extensions. Multimedia data soon will become the
dominant data on LANs."
LAN Server Ultimedia provides the best of both worlds, the
world of multimedia and the world of shared data, which makes it
attractive to LAN administrators and to application developers.
With LAN Server Ultimedia, administrators can manage the LAN
bandwidth so that the multimedia service does not exceed the optimal
ratio to other data and cause loss of quality in data transfer. With
this product, they also can use an existing server to deliver
non-multimedia data when adding multimedia applications.
Developers of multimedia applications can concentrate on their
programs, knowing that storage, retrieval and delivery of the data
will be provided by LAN Server Ultimedia. Developers also can take
advantage of the various multimedia data types available, since the
applications and the associated multimedia data are transparent to LAN
Server Ultimedia.
Because LAN Server Ultimedia guarantees quality of service,
rather than scaling, developers are assured that the number of multi-
media clients concurrently accessing multimedia data will be
managed with no degradation to the appearance of their applications.
LAN Server Ultimedia will be available Dec. 9, 1993, and can be
ordered by calling 1-800-3IBM-OS2, 1-800-887-7771 or anywhere you
buy IBM software. The price will be $3,195 for the first server and
$3,035 for additional server licenses. IBM OS/2 LAN Server 3.0
Advanced is required to run the product, which comes with a 30-day,
money-back guarantee.