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Nokia announces to integrate Network Computer features into the Nokia MediaMaster Multimedia Network Terminals
May 21, 1996
Nokia Group, the global telecommunications technology supplier, announced yesterday at an Oracle Press Conference in San Fransisco that the Nokia MediaMaster multimedia terminal supporting Internet services (WWW) will also support the Network Computer (NC) standards.
At the Oracle press conference, Oracle and other industry leaders joined together to define a reference profile for the standard Internet appliances for communications and commerce. The reference profile will enable a new class of devices and ensures compatibility compatibility among them. The NC is Oracles´s implementation of easy-to-use, low-cost computing devices based upon open Internet standards.
Nokia MediaMaster is the first product of the Nokia strategy of supporting major multimedia delivery platforms, including satellite, cable and other telecommunication networks. "We believe that there will be room for many different end-user multimedia terminals and that downloading of the applications and software from the networks will be one of the key elements from the end-user point of view.", said Heikki Koskinen, President of Nokia Multimedia Network Terminals about Nokia´s decision to endorse the new Network Computing format.
"Nokia looks forward to utilizing Network Computing to expand Nokia´s multimedia network terminal operations as well as to further the company´s presence in the evolving multimedia age.", said Seppo Kalli, Vice President, R&D of Nokia Multimedia Network Terminals. "We see that the NC will enhance Nokia´s ability to apply its expertise in digital technologies and telecommunications to the residential and business multimedia market."
Nokia Multimedia Network Terminals, part of the Nokia General Communications Products Business Group, supplies satellite and cable television products and multimedia network terminals to business and residential use. In 1995, this division introduced its first multimedia network terminal, Nokia MediaMaster, which permits the use of a television for multimedia functions, such as receipt of digital satellite television signals, Internet connection and the connection of peripherals, such as personal computers, printers and CD-Rom drives.
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