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For Release: October 23, 2002
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1stWorks introduces hotComm 2.0, delivering improved connectivity, collaboration and conferencing for Colleagues, Customers and Visitors to your Web pages.
hotComm 2.0 includes more cost effective Content Distribution, improved Voice over IP and Full Motion Video
Connect with the world from your desktop. More importantly for your business, hotComm enables the world to connect with you, securely and spontaneously.
Sudbury MA, October 23, 2002 - 1stWorks Corporation, today released hotComm 2.0, extending hotComm's rich multimedia capabilities beyond secure collaboration to
include video conferencing and content distribution.
Full motion video and voice over IP combined with the address redirection and presence management capabilities of hotComm create a simple, scalable and cost effective desktop video conferencing solution. Simply invite your guests, those with a camera and a microphone attached to their hotComm system, to a secure session. Select voice and camera on each desktop and you have your conference. And you can still share the rich multimedia capabilities of hotComm.
For truly scalable and cost-effective Content Distribution, 1stWorks has created hotComm TreeCast Moderator, as an innovative improvement in the delivery of Webcasts. The hotComm TreeCast Moderator will dynamically create a hierarchical routing based on the peer profiles, including connection history and available bandwidth, among the receiving hotComm client audience. This means that the hotComm clients who receive a WebCast simultaneously contribute their otherwise unused outbound bandwidth to push the transmission to the downstream clients. Similarly, since a Webcast receiver must be a recognized hotComm peer (a registered user or paid ticket) to be included in the dynamic routing algorithm, the opportunity for "free rider" presence is eliminated. In a corporate setting, this adds the feature of confidentiality and control, in entertainment applications it serves to protect revenue. Similarly, the flexible and dynamic network structure of the 1stWorks Peer Network eliminates the server farms and bandwidth infrastructure otherwise required to assure a given QoS level in Webcasts, enabling anyone to act as presenter to a spontaneous group. Delivery over the 1stWorks Peer Network is less expensive, more flexible and spontaneous
For more structured Content Distribution, hotComm Content Relay Manager is an unattended implementation of hotComm, which is hosted on a Windows NT class server with suitable bandwidth. The Content Relay Server accepts multiple hotComm client input feeds and multicasts them to the viewing community who access the content through hotComm, hotComm lite or the Java applet. The feeds can include any content form supported by hotComm, including dynamic or recorded chat, voice, video, files and presentations. Consider corporate meetings and announcements. Simply email the intending recipients asking them to link to the hotComm Content Relay Manager at the Company at the appropriate time. Each will receive the announcement securely and simultaneously, with the Company's charts, documents and supporting commentary, right at their browser.
About 1stWorks Corporation
Founded in mid 2000 by executives from several successful Internet software startups and based just outside Boston, MA. 1stWorks has created a scalable peer network architecture capable of supporting secure global connections among hundreds of millions of simultaneous users, including a peer network management and application development platform. 1stWorks powerful desktop client, hotComm, connects users instantly, using secure Peer connections, to provide interactive messaging, voice, file transfer, group navigation and shared applications. All solutions are designed to deliver authenticated, real time, interactive messaging and data manipulation capabilities based on secure group communication and collaboration.
For more information on 1stWorks Corporation or on hotComm, visit www.1stworks.com.
Copyright ©2002, 1stWorks Corporation. All rights reserved. Any trademarks referenced here are the property of their respective holders.
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Contact
Nigel Spicer, 1stWorks Corporation, (508) 541 6781
Nspicer@1stworks.com
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