clark@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Roger Clark Swann) (08/08/89)
The following article is copied without permission from PC WEEK
July 17, 1989
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AT&T, DEC Announce Joint PBX-to-Computer INterface Development
AT&T and Digital Equipment Corp. recently pledged to provide mutual
technical support in the area of computer supported telephony,
including plans to develop a PBX-to-computer applications inteface.
The applications interface will be based on ATT&t's application
platform, the Adjunct Switch Application Interface (ASAI), and
Digital's new Computer Integrated Telephony (CIT) platform,
officials from the companies said.
The interface will help customers take advantage of Integrated
Services Digital newtworks (ISDN) and help meet their demands for
multivendor connectivity, said Don Hirsch, vice president for
product management at AT&T's Business Communications Systems
division in Bridgewater, N.J.
The companies will also work through international standards
organizations toward a standard that allows seamless integration of
voice and data-processing systems, officials of the companies said.
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