Article: Whittaker Corp. and Pacific Bell Successfully Demonstrate Industry's First 'Video Mail' MultiMedia Application; San Francisco/Los Angeles Test of Video Server Prototype Marks First-Ever Video E-Mail Transmission over Commercial High Speed ATM Network.

SIMI VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 1995--Scoring an important industry first, Whittaker Corporation (NYSE:WKR) and technology development partner Pacific Bell (NYSE:PAC) have successfully demonstrated the feasibility of "video mail" -- an emerging MultiMedia computer application that allows users to create, send and retrieve digital-quality video content in real time over a wide-area network using asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) transmission technology.

The successful demonstration of Whittaker's video/MultiMedia server and Pacific Bell's ATM network will help bring to market new store-and-forward, archive and retrieval and related electronic commerce ...

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