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DirecPC Turning Imagination Into Reality

Imagine your e-mail messages actually talking to you. Imagine the president of your company welcoming you from your desktop the first day on your new job with a personal video message. Imagine live quarterly financial broadcasts delivered to your desktop. Imagine being able to download full retail catalogs, enlivened with video, as you need them. Imagine your own personal fashion show, customized for you and broadcast live from a virtual mailbox to your desktop. Imagine express e-mailing your brochures and catalogs over the Internet, directly to your customers.

You've just imagined the DirecPC(TM) revolution.

DirecPC turns your imagination into reality. DirecPC is a powerful combination of services (which includes the Internet) and mixed media (audio, video, images, graphics, etc.), supported by high-speed, high-bandwidth satellite communications. In fact, with DirecPC, you can use your Netscape browser to access mixed media, collaborative applications, and Internet services, together -- immediately!

Get online with DirecPC

DirecPC turbocharges the Internet using affordable satellite delivery technology to give you the ability to play mixed media content like audio/video from the Internet immediately at your desktop, where you can integrate the content with your existing collaborative applications. No more time-consuming downloads.

Just use your web browser to make a request, as you would normally. Once online, your information provider simply sends mixed media content with a corresponding address to the DirecPC Network Operations Center. From there, it's broadcast via satellite to your location.

Once the information arrives, InterMedia software from Starlight Networks(TM) immediately distributes the information to you and can make it available throughout the corporate enterprise. With Starlight(TM) InterMedia software, Viewing Rooms are now a thing of the past.

And the incoming mixed media content can be stored and managed on a local HP server or Vectra PC client running Starlight InterMedia software for later use by anyone at your site!

Benefits of the DirecPC revolution

Turbocharges the Internet to make mixed media content (video, audio, images, text, etc.) available at your desktop. -- immediately -- for enterprise collaboration.
Makes the Internet an integral part of your network -- integrated with existing group-ware, e-mail, and other collaborative applications, and with new corporate intranets.
Brings dynamic mixed media content directly to the proper audiences over the Internet -- immediately -- playing in real time.
Allows you to affordably distribute high-band-width mixed media to remote offices and to users on the network.
Brings your applications to life with exciting mixed media content, and makes those dynamic applications available to users at their desktops -- on the corporate network, in the department, or at remote sites.
Offers a high-performance InterMedia solution with high return on investment benefits.

For more information, contact:

Hughes Network Systems
11717 Exploration Lane
Germantown, MD 20876
800-347-3272
http://www.direcpc.com

Starlight Networks, Inc.
205 Ravendale Drive
Mountain View, CA 94043
415-967-2774 Main
http://www.starlight.com

Hewlett-Packard Company
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304
800-637-7740
http://www.hp.com

DirecPC is a trademark of Hughes Network Systems, Inc., and Starlight and Starlight Networks are trademarks of Starlight Networks, Inc. All other products are trademarks of their respective owners. Specifications subject to change without notice. Copyright 1996 All reserved. Printed in U. S.

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