Philips Business Electronics NV and leading networking firm Bay Networks Inc are to work together to bring the current state of separate multimedia components into a unified whole. Looking towards the bandwidth-intensive future of video, voice and data networks, the two, who have worked as internetworking reseller partners before, want to bring together the legacy of disparate networked multimedia components. The agreement is divided into two separate parts concerning marketing and development of networked multimedia: the marketing bit means Philips can sell Bay’s Asynchronous Transfer Mode workgroup and campus equipment; the development bit begins a co-operative framework although hard details of what the two intend to achieve were hard to come by.
