Designed to save business time, money, and help them do business much more cost-effectively by conducting virtual meetings right from people's own desktop, or even laptop computers, the Marratech® system represents a revolutionary capability, with the following extraordinary and unexcelled features and advantages:

• End-to-End 256 AES Bit Encryption: Ensuring one of the market's safest online group work environments. Even video, voice, and collaborative activities are within the end-to-end 256-bit encryption envelope.
  
  
• New!! - Affordable H.264 and H.261 Video Conferencing: Using network-friendly, compressed video, e-meeting participants get a sense of who is there in the virtual meeting space and who is speaking by actually seeing them. Participants like seeing who they are communicating with and this facilitates more meaningful and more productive workgroup communication.
  
  
• Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation, and more support for IP Multicast and large meetings: Video and Audio bandwidth is adjustable and can be tailorfit to meet network bandwidth requirements.
  
  
• Crystal Clear Voice Over IP: Superb sound from the leading Voice Over IP technology within the work environment from Global IP Sound, USA for considerable cost-savings...No expensive additional long distance telephone conference calls are needed!
  
  
• Dynamic Application and Desktop Sharing: Marratech's latest version has an excellent new interface that allows for even more powerful document sharing and document-focused or applications-focused collaborative work functions
  
  
• Instant Messaging: Workgroup participants can send instant messages to the group. Web site addresses entered allow the sharing of commonly viewed web pages.
  
  
• Private Audio/Video/Instant Messaging : On-demand "private" communcation can occur between participants using real-time audio, video presence and text-based instant messaging, even while the meeting is going on.
  
  
• Full-featured Whiteboard: Meeting participants can share, and Microsoft Office-tm documents, including PowerPoint slide presentations. A special tool set and separate layer, allows for editable annotation without affecting the original source document.
  
  
• Recording and Playback of Meetings: Meetings can be recorded, saved and played back, with section archiving so even people who couldn't attend can get the information. This is a powerful feature for business coordination training applications of the system.
  
  
• Network and Firewall Compliant: Compliant with virtually all firewall and Network Address Translation (NAT) schemes - immensely simplifying deployment
  
  
• Cross-Platform Capability: Works with Windows (98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP), Mac OS X, Linux Redhat and Sun Solaris
  
  
• Rapid Deployment - with new MeetNow! : Elegantly designed and straight-forward client/server architecture allows for rapid deployment using downloadable client software and and easy to configure and e-meeting portal server software. Supplied HTML templates even allow for look-and-feel customization of the web-based e-meeting portal. New web-based MeetNow! technology gets end-users enabled via automatic software download much more quickly, allowing for faster ramp up times.

New World Communications is working closely with Marratech to implement intelligent e-meeting, e-learning, and e-commerce solutions that utilize the Marratech® system in North America. We can provide a comprehensive and end-to-end suite of Marratech-related NWC SupportPlus™ quality-assured and project-managed services For more information, contact Art Johnson at: ajohn@newworldcom.com or call 425-844-8908.