Apple Mac 8600 - Manual (Page 23)

Basics GeoPort - 21
GeoPort
Geoport is a hardware and software communications
architecture that has been optimized for computer-
telephony integration. It has three main attributes:
• It lets any 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.