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Starlight Networks Resellers Win Prestigious INVISION Multimedia
Awards For Networked Video Applications
ATLANTA, Georgia -- May 24, 1994 -- Networked video applications were prominent
winners of the INVISION multimedia awards at Comdex/Spring, with two of
Starlight Networks resellers and their users winning for their networked
video solutions.
Visual Symphony (Pittsburgh, Penn.) and its customer, CSX Transportation,
won a Bronze award in the End-User Developed Applications category (Training
subcategory) for the networked multimedia training system they co-developed
using Starlight Networks' StarWare(r) video networking software. CSX is
using networked multimedia to cost-effectively train tens of thousands of
its railroad employees throughout 20 East Coast states. The cost savings
of only one new video training program justifies the entire system implementation,
and dozens of training programs are being planned. Two courses are already
in use at eight networked sites.
Digital Renaissance (Toronto, Ontario) won a Silver award in the Information/Reference
category (Museum Exhibit Guide subcategory) for The Silver Dart Project,
an electronic encyclopedia of aviation history developed for Canada's National
Aviation Museum using Starlight's StarWorks(r) video networking software.
Digital Renaissance worked with the Museum to create an interactive presentation
with multimedia capability making the Museum's vast collection of aviation
film clips and photographs available to the public. This electronic encyclopedia
is perhaps the first museum catalog to feature full-motion video and sound,
as well as text and images. Its networked foundation gives it the ability
to be accessed by remote users, and be easily updated, and StarWorks permits
realtime access by numerous users to the video database.
Both applications are currently being featured at the Multimedia Awards
Playland at Comdex/Spring.
"Video networks are here. They're real, and they're affordable, as
these INVISION award recipients illustrate," said Jim Long, president
of Starlight Networks. "Our corporate customers are realizing benefits
from video applications in their current networking environments."
The INVISION awards recognize outstanding multimedia solutions that improve
the way people communicate and learn. The winners are considered to be making
a major contribution to communications history through their innovative
solutions. The Awards are sponsored by New Media Magazine in association
with NEC Technologies, The Interface Group, and a broad group of leading
industry companies.
Visual Symphony, Inc. is a developer of integrated media software for business,
corporate training, industry, and the consumer marketplace. Digital Renaissance
is a multimedia development group specializing in enterprise multimedia
solutions, custom open systems applications development, and client driven
project management and consulting services.
About StarWorks, StarWare, and Starlight Networks
Starlight Networks develops video networking software to provide video services
on enterprise networks. Starlight's StarWorks and StarWare video networking
server software products provide video storage management and video session
and stream management functions to ensure reliable delivery of video to
the desktop over today's local area networks. StarWorks and StarWare manage
the storage of streaming data in such a way as to allow simultaneous access
by a large number of users to the same video, or to multiple videos. StarWorks'
open systems approach supports the delivery of video across multiple server
and client platforms. StarWorks supports all of the popular video formats
and network