Ideal Technology Solutions, U.S. - Ideal - Delivers Premier Video Conferencing Application To The World's Largest Managed B2B Virtual Private Network
13 September 2000
Ideal Technology Solutions, U.S. - Ideal - Delivers Premier Video Conferencing Application To The World's Largest Managed B2B Virtual Private Network
DETROIT--Sept. 13, 2000--Highlighting its Application Service offerings to the automotive industry and its extensive supply chain, Ideal will demonstrate FVC.COM's Click To Meet(TM) at Autotech 2000, the nation's premier automotive electronic B2B Trade Show. Autotech 2000 is at Detroit's Cobo Convention Center on September 12, 13 and 14. A Certified Service Provider (CSP) to ANX(R), the world's largest managed B2B Virtual Private Network; Ideal is providing an array of scalable, leasable applications to Original Equipment Manufacturers and its extensive supply chain.
Ideal/FVC.COM Click To Meet video conferencing enables personnel at Ford, DaimlerChrysler, General Motors, Toyota and Honda and their suppliers to conduct videoconferences with a click of a mouse. Utilizing its hosted Click To Meet video conferencing service on a per use basis, Ideal's latest application offering enables end-users to conduct meetings securely in real-time, increasing collaboration and productivity while saving on unnecessary travel expense.
With a simple point and click, ANX Trading Partners who purchase the Click To Meet Service will be able to make two-way video calls as easily as surfing the Web without the costly start-up, hardware and infrastructure expenses associated with early videoconferencing services.
Ideal's latest application offerings fulfill the promise of its cost-effective mANX Dial and DSL ANX-connectivity service that were launched at Autotech 1999. These connectivity options have enabled small-to-midsized automotive suppliers to gain access to ANX. Click To Meet joins a myriad of IdealApps(R) available to the ANX community. Under the auspices of the Science Applications International Corporation, the automotive industry created ANX is in the process of expanding its services to industries like health care, aeronautics, financial services, and insurance.
In addition to providing advanced applications services hosting such as Click To Meet video services via ANX, Ideal is one of five CSPs offering a certified, fully-managed and completely outsourced IPSec Gateway Service for ANX connectivity. The Ideal ANX service includes all of the software, hardware and engineering required to securely connect ANX Trading Partners.
"Ideal selected FVC.COM to support its ASP Services strategy, specifically real time video service because it is the premier video networking solutions supplier and the first company to deliver managed video services over broadband Internet and other quality networks such as ANX," said Robert Skinner, Co-Founder of Ideal. "Ideal will leverage FVC.COM's first to market advantage with Click To Meet by aggressively introducing advance video services to businesses, starting with ANX OEMs and their Trading Partners."
FVC.COM is the first to offer two-way video and related streaming solutions managed by a universal video portal, Click To Meet. It operates across multiple network technologies, including IP, ATM and ISDN and brings point and click simplicity to video services over the broadband Internet.
"Our deployment with Ideal is yet another example of how FVC.COM is humanizing e-business and extending the communications function of the broadband Internet," said Ralph Ungermann, FVC.COM's video systems and expertise, we are making two-way video a strategic business function, becoming as important as voice and data are today."
Ideal Technology Solutions, U.S. is an E-Business and Application Service Provider, delivering Connectivity, Applications, Security and Managed Hosting to business. Ideal is a Certified Service Provider to ANX; passing over 160-service metrics to earn the privilege to serve the worlds largest managed B2B Virtual Private Network. To learn more about Ideal, click on www.itsusnow.com.
FVC.COM's strategic partners include Accord, Adaptive Broadband, Alcatel, Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, British Telecommunications plc, Cisco Systems, Inc., CuseeME Networks, EDS, Ezenia!, France Telecom, Nortel Networks, Polycom, Qwest Communications, Shanghai Telecom, Telstra and other leading companies worldwide. Further information about the Company is available at www.fvc.com.