INTEL AND MICROSOFT HOST FIRST TAPI INTEROPERABILITY TESTING EVENT

21 Companies Come Together at the Intel Architecture Lab Facility in Oregon
to Test TAPI-based Computer-Telephony Integration Products

Last week Intel Corporation and Microsoft Corporation hosted a special
two-day Telephony API (TAPI) interoperabilty testing event. TAPI
application and service provider developers attending the event included
AlgoRhythms, Inc., Arabesque Software, Inc., AT&T, Aurora Systems, Inc.,
Connectware, Ericsson Business Networks AB, Genesys, Inc., IBM, ISDN
Systems Corporation, Logical Solutions, Microsoft, Mitel, Momentum Data
Systems, Inc., Northern Telecom, Inc., OCTuS, Periscope Company, Inc.,
Rolm, Sierra Semiconductor, Stylus Innovation, Inc., Toshiba America
Information Systems, Inc., and Teleint GmbH.

TAPI-compliant products under development by the participating companies
were tested to help ensure that each application can operate seamlessly on
a variety of service providers using multiple telephony environments,
including analog, a range of PBXs, ISDN and client/server. A unique
testing environment was created at the Intel Architecture Lab facility in
Hillsboro, Oregon to subject the applications to real-world telephony
tests.

Co-developed by Intel and Microsoft, TAPI offers a standard way to
integrate telephony with personal computers running the Microsoft Windows
operating system. The goal of the TAPI standard is to make telephony as
common a PC peripheral as a monitor or printer. The specification
insulates PC users and applications from the underlying integration
hardware, connection model or telephone network. TAPI is supported by a
broad range of companies, including major telephone switch manufacturers,
PC and peripheral manufacturers, software developers and network
providers.

"TAPI provides a universal platform for telecommunications as MS-DOS did
for computers," said Michael Stanford, chairman of AlgoRhythms, Inc.
"Telecommunications equipment manufacturers will no longer have to
evangelize to software developers, and software producers will no longer
have to bet on the success of a particular equipment model. With TAPI, all
the software can work with all the hardware, so everybody wins, especially
the customer. The testing conducted last week proved that TAPI is an
effective standard."

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