Murray Hill, NJ. Lucent Technologies, the recently formed spin-off from AT&T and Bell Labs, today established a new venture group to market high-quality voice, music and video software for applications on the Internet.
The new division will be called elemedia (elements for multimedia), and it will deliver products under the Media Plus™ label. The line will include software to enable FM stereo/CD-quality audio software for services such as music-on-demand and real-time audio broadcasting. Other offerings will include voice software for “telephone quality” conversations over the net, and speakerphone software, to give PCs and Internet phone devices full-duplex capabilities.
“We’re capitalizing on a more than a decade of Bell Laboratories software research and development in packet technologies to bring Internet telephony to the level of quality people are accustomed to,” said Joe Mele, President of elemedia. “This software will help move voice, music and video over the Internet beyond the current base of technologists and hobbyists and into the mainstream.”
With this mission, elemedia is positioning itself to go head to head with the current industry leaders in realtime audio delivery over the Internet: Progressive Networks (RealAudio™), Xing (Streamworks™), and VocalTec (Internet Phone™).
Among the first to adopt elemedia’s Media Plus software will be Soundprint Media Center, a provider of Internet services for the public radio broadcasting industry.
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