Product Launch

Feedback PLC 26 September 2000 Feedback Plc to launch the 'Classroom of the Future' Feedback will showcase their new venture at the Labour Party Conference tonight. They will demonstrate, with their project partners British Telecom and FVC.com, 'The Classroom of the Future'. Using a broadband connection, guests will be able to link directly to classrooms at Crawley College to experience state of the art production engineering equipment being used in a two-way interactive training session. Crawley College is a member of the Sussex Virtual College (SVC) network, which was officially launched by Patricia Hewitt, DTI Minister for e-commerce, last week. It was funded under the Government's Centres for Excellence and Collaboration programme. The College uses Feedback's 'Virtual Campus', which is at the core of the SVC network. It provides the platform for handling all the multi-media teaching material and the interactive multicast video lecture sessions. This project links 13 colleges in Sussex, in order to share teaching resources, using BT's broadband network. FVC.com supplied the video conferencing systems, which allow lessons to be broadcast. Feedback and British Telecom are working as project partners on other contracts. British Telecom is providing the telecommunications infrastructure for the system through Cellstream, its flagship broadband ATM, which offers full multimedia support for voice, data and video applications. FVC.com is a private US corporation, which was founded in 1993 by Ralph Ungermann one of the pioneers in the development of the microchip. Shareholders include Paul Allen a founder of Microsoft. The company specialises in video conferencing systems. For further information contact: Feedback plc Roger Barnett or Andrew Whiteley 01892 653322

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