Apple 4400/200 PC manual GeoPort Technology

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GeoPort Technology

Geoport is a hardware and software communications architecture that has been optimized for computer- telephony integration. It has three main attributes:

• It lets any GeoPort-compatible computer connect to any telephone (analog or digital, public or private) anywhere in the world.

• Once connected, it supports an arbitrary number of independent data streams up to a total bandwidth of 2 MB/second.

• Unlike traditional asynchronous data communications (such as AppleTalk), GeoPort also supports isochronous data streams (such as real-time voice and video) and provides the real-time application program interfaces (APIs) necessary to hide the implementation details from both the recipient and the sender.