Initial Market Release
With the low bandwidth requirements inherent in the efficient StreetTalk model, global companies and governments that grasped the inherent advantages of worldwide directory services seamlessly spanning multiple time zones caught on to the technological edge that VINES brought to the IT table. Gas and oil companies, power companies, public utilities, and U.S. Government agencies including the State Department, Treasury Department, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Defense implemented VINES in worldwide operations. The U.S. State Department, for example, was an early adopter of the VINES technology. Able to take advantage of the then high-speed 56k modems for telephonic connectivity of the developed world to the limited telephone modem speeds of 300 baud over bad analog telephone systems in the Third World, VINES was able to link embassies around the world. VINES also came with built-in point-to-point and group chat capability that was useful for basic communication over secure lines.
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