[mod.telecom] Question about Ameritech Product Offering

sullivan@EDN-VAX.ARPA (Pat Sullivan) (11/27/86)

I got some promotional mail from Ameritech (a Western Union priority
letter, which somehow struck me as ironic) concerning a product called
Information Manager (TM). Claimed features: "LATEST TECHNOLOGY, one
system provides simultaneous voice communications, high speed data
communications and Ethernet LAN. INCREDIBLE ECONOMY, delivers 2 Mbps
digital power to the desktop. Uses your existing twisted-pair
wiring..."

They go on to claim that IM can be overlayed on one's
present Centrex, Dimension, or PBX.

Can someone help me out with what this is?
Is it based on the Project Victoria multiplexer?

Thanks,
Pat Sullivan
Defense Communications Engineering Center
Reston, VA.

usenet@AMES.ARPA.UUCP (12/02/86)

> 
> I got some promotional mail from Ameritech ... concerning a product called
> Information Manager (TM)...
>  can be overlayed on one's present Centrex, Dimension, or PBX.
> ... 
> Is it based on the Project Victoria multiplexer?
> 
> Pat Sullivan
> Defense Communications Engineering Center
> Reston, VA.

Ameritech has entered into an agreement with David Systems, Sunnyvale,CA to
market the David Information Manager which does all that they claim for it.
It uses David's proprietary encoding scheme and is not based on Project Victoria
as far as I know.

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