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September 1998

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Touchwave With Phone System For IP Networks
Now available is TouchWave, Inc.'s WebSwitch 1608, an extension of the company's network phone system with voice over IP capabilities, allowing small- to medium-sized businesses to deploy company-wide phone systems across IP networks. The VoIP solution offers single directory and central management from any location, relieving traditional scalability and single point-of-failure barriers among PBX or key systems. Users can establish distributed systems across local-area networks (LANs) and wide-area networks (WANs), a voice compression module optimizing performance over WANs. In addition, companies can enjoy IP telephony advantages using standard analog phones with WebSwitch 1608 - no gateway required. Calls outside the corporate IP network will be routed through the PSTN. For more information, contact the company at 650-843-1850.

Summa Four, Dialogic Develop Integrated Switching Platform
|Summa Four, Inc., and Dialogic Corporation have developed a uniquely fully integrated programmable switching platform. The joint project is telco-capable and standards-based, cutting costs and time to create programmable switch-based services and enabling seamless integration of off-the-shelf applications. Project Sigma supports a unified call and media control application programmatic interface (API) based on S.100 and TAPI 3.0 and runs on an imbedded Windows NT Server version for multiple application development tools and system utilities. Scalable from a few hundred ports to over 16,000 non-blocking ports, it saves half the cost to incorporate off-board media through direct connection of card-level resources, based on the CompactPCI H.110 standard, to the switching backplane. For more information, contact Summa Four at 603-625-4050.

Efficient's CPE Modem For Diamond Lane Line
Efficient Networks, Inc., is announcing the SpeedStream 5250 modem, an economical customer premises equipment (CPE) device for seamless compatibility with Diamond Lane Communication Corporation's Speedlink system. Both Efficient and Diamond Lane will sell the SpeedStream 5250, an ATM-based symmetric digital subscriber line (SDSL) modem ideal for clients and organizations. The device proves beneficial to clients and companies needing symmetrical access speeds for teleworking, remote LAN connectivity, and high-speed Internet applications, employing a 10Base-T Ethernet port and absent configuration procedure. Service providers, as well, can enhance quality of service for various multimedia traffic with Efficient's featured traffic-shaping software. For more information, contact Efficient Networks at 972-991-3884.

Intelect, Hughes With Cost-Effective Support Solution
Intelect Visual Communications (IVC) and Hughes Network Systems (HNS) will produce for carriers and service providers a high-quality video conferencing application. Designed for multipoint conferences at selectable data rates over a LAN or WAN, LANscape is a PC-based software/hardware product allowing carriers to affordably support corporate customers' Intranet and extranet networking, and targeting Internet service providers (ISPs), as well. The package's Wavelet video reduces the network load through selective transmission and achieves compression rations. Designed for carriers, ISPs, competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs), and backbone service providers, LANscape uses HNS Radiant network's Switched Virtual Circuits with QoS to offer cost-effective LAN-to-WAN integration, along with dual-service frame relay-ATM WAN switches and carrier-class multi-protocol switching platform for backbone technology. For more information, visit Intelect's Web site at www.intelectcom.com.

Siemens Adds To IP Video Solution
Hicom Xpress IP Video allows video calls between LAN-based and ISDN-based PC conferencing systems. Siemens Business Communications extends its Multimedia-IP LAN solution with the video, granting advantages for real-time and collaborative computing such as distance learning, telesales, telemedicine, and remote patient consultation. Hicom Xpress enables customer management of video traffic impact and investment protection in legacy H.320 technology, using RADVision's OnLAN L2W-323 Gateway, and features VCON's voice, video, and gateway system. For more information, contact Siemens at 800-765-6123.

VoIP, VoFR Solution For ROBOs
NETRIX Corporation's Network Exchange 2201 offers the Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO) market its required complete voice and data over IP/FR capabilities with high-quality compressed voice, real-time fax, IP to frame relay gatewaying, IP routing, and legacy protocol support in a single, scalable platform. Applications requiring a maximum of four voice ports , as do small enterprise offices, and Internet telephony service providers (ITSPs) supplying lower-density CPE equipment will find the Exchange 2201 helpful. The company's "end-point-aware" traffic shaping and sophisticated call flow mechanisms ensure voice and data quality. "The 2201 moves one step closer to the 'plug-and-play' environment required by most network administrators," said NETRIX President and CEO Lynn Chapman. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.netrix.com.

ICG Wants Cisco For Network Extension
Cisco Systems, Inc., is offering its equipment to ICG Netcom for an expanded nationwide network and ranging new services such as Internet long-distance phone service. The upgraded ICG network will offer businesses and residential customers services through voice over IP, improving its frame relay, point-to-point protocol (PPP), and IP connectivity services, as well as to enable Internet telephony. ICG President and CEO J. Shelby Bryan said, "ICG Netcom's IP telephony service will be available to 90 percent of U.S. long-distance customers and will be offered in nearly double the number of cities any other competitor serves." Cisco is sending ICG over 10,000 AS5300 universal access server ports and the server's voice/fax feature card, along with Cisco 7500 series routers and Cisco's BPX 8600 carrier-class ATM switches. For more information, visit ICG's Web site at www.icgcomm.com.

RADVision Ships H.323-Compliant VIU
RADVision released its video interface unit VIU-323 in a move from H.320 video conferencing to H.323-based desktop multimedia conferencing, offering complete end-to-end interoperability between users of the two communications systems. Legacy systems users can protect H.320 investments with the VIU-323 and benefit from collaboration between other legacy group and H.323-based desktop conferencing users. RADVision's unit provides facilitated installation, configuration, and maintenance, along with high reliability through RISC-based robust design. ISDN lines are not required to expand interoperable endpoints for VIU-enabled conferencing systems. In addition, the product supports high-quality conferencing calls at speeds of up to 384 Kbps. For more information, visit RADVision's Web site at www.radvision.com.

Nortel VoIP Portfolio For Carrier-Class Services
Service providers can offer clients true business telephony services over a managed, carrier-grade network with the IPConnect portfolio by Nortel (Northern Telecom). A package of carrier-grade IP gateways to test service performance of multiple switch platforms accompanies a common gatekeeper and strong management/billing systems. Unique services from the IPConnect library include the following:

  • prepaid calling cards and single-stage dialing
  • mobile, virtual desktops
  • advanced services, including unified messaging and IP multicast
  • call center applications.

In addition, IPConnect gateways feature five component open, non-proprietary interfaces - scalable to customer requirements and able to deliver configurations from 24 to 100,000 ports. They are fully H.323-compliant and support standard telephony protocols such as SS7. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.nortel.com.

Selsius Offers Scalability With Linear PBX Upgrade
Selsius Systems' IP-PBX 2.1 provides expected quality, reliability, and services in a truly linear PBX solution - a versatile H.323 product, scalable for users numbering between two and 1500, with a single server running software. The upgrade is part of an effort to foster standards-based, open, and scalable next-generation PBXs which extend multimedia's future impact to the desktop over a single network. Four Ethernet IP telephone models, a line of gateways, and NT-based CallManager software provide high-quality call processing features and services. The PBX can handle heavy call traffic as it grows into a large corporate enterprise through additional phones and gateway ports. For more information, contact Selsius at 972-855-8899.

Compact, High-Performance Conferencing From RSI
RSI Systems, Inc., has released three versions of its Video Flyer Plus line, an especially small, self-contained high-performance video conferencing system known for reliability, connectivity, and simplicity. The Video Flyer Plus 384 and Video Flyer Plus 128 Rocket were developed for conference room and workgroup, high-quality applications, while the Video Flyer Plus Executive fits on a bookshelf, desk, or tabletop. The system internalizes network terminal adapters (NT1s) with U interface circuitry to reduce its price for users and eliminate connectivity and cable clutter hassles. Also, RSI has added two high-speed internalized 115 Kbps data ports to offer near- and far-end remote camera control, full data collaboration, and Remote Video Manager multisystem far-end management control. For more information, contact the company at 612-896-3020.

e-Net's Full-Duplex Audio Card Needs No Replacements
Demanding no replacement of existing network or audio cards while maximizing a system for network users, e-Net, Inc.'s, TelSet Lite optimizes companies' investments in Telecom 2000 VoDN products. PC users can take advantage of top voice quality over Ethernet, ATM, and frame relay networks through making local, not long-distance calls, directing them between remote sites and across their data networks and accessing the PSTN. A full duplex audio card and e-Net's Phone Assistant Software comprise the package at $299. For more information, contact the company at 301-601-8700.

Microsoft Using Portal Software For Online Management
This fall, Microsoft Corporation will begin applying Portal Software, Inc.'s, Infranet application to manage its online businesses and customers in all stages of communication with the services, namely activity tracking, product pricing, and billing. Portal software's real-time architecture and open development environment unify core business operations management for registering, tracking, managing and billing subscribers, as well increases revenue and customer satisfaction. Its complete out-of-the-box, customizable functionality and industrial-strength, scalable design allows Infranet to meet competitive demands in the Internet market. For more information, contact Portal at 408-343-4397.

Andrea Electronics Unveils Far-Field Mic Technology
Optimal microphone performance for background noise cancellation and clear voice signal transmission is possible with Digital Super Directional Array (DSDA) capabilities from Andrea Electronics Corporation. The development is a response to emerging applications in such areas as automobile PCs, desktop speech recognition, hand-held devices, audio/video and "whiteboard" teleconferencing, and office and home automation systems. DSDA uses many microphones, software algorithms, and advanced digital signaling processing (DSP) to offer a natural language, human/machine interface - able to produce continuous input for clear voice and audio signals from a distance. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.andreaelectronics.com.

Commetrex, MiBridge Offer MSP Consortium
Commetrex Corporation will market a jointly-developed, MSP consortium M.100-compliant version of MiBridge, Inc.'s, voice over IP technology. The open-standards capability will appear on Commetrex's MSP/CX DSP resource board early next year. One of the first to offer the M.100 standard, the board includes an Intel 386EX co-processor, PCI, H.100, and Ethernet interfaces, and 16 MB of RAM. The MSP Consortium was founded in June 1997 to create an open standard for computer telephony, media-processing environments. "The idea behind the MSP consortium is to reduce the cost of porting media-processing technologies to different proprietary environments," said MiBridge President Dror Nahumi. For more information, contact Commetrex Corp at 770-449-7775.

Advanced 01 Communique Software For Power SOHO Market
COMMUNICATE! PRO has enhanced the "all-in-one communication" software product family by 01 Communique Laboratory, Inc. Designed for Windows 95 and NT, the package is ideal for professional power users with Internet requirements, offering advanced capabilities such as an H.323-compliant Internet phone and Web browser launch in one easy-to-use interface. The product saves users long-distance costs via a point-to-point protocol (PPP) connection with their ISP, allowing them to vocally contact other COMMUNICATE! PRO and H.323-compliant Internet telephony software users. Communique's special "shelving technology" fully integrates the product's voice, Internet services, and fax/data communications under the interface. Users can quickly create targeted lists via a fully integrated contact manager, as well - the central hub to all communications functions. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.01com.com.

Accentric Merges ISP, CAP Services
Accentric has created a unique multiprovider network, grouping five upstream Internet service providers (ISPs) and multiple competitive access providers (CAPS), including GTE Internetworking and Sprint, as well as TCG and WinStar, respectively. The Internet access center provides the framework for the company's co-location and Internet access services, allowing it to maximize bandwidth, scalability, redundancy, and reliability for American and international Internet users. The center will reroute traffic to the other connected networks, should one provider experience problems. Accentric provides faster Internet access for its customers, owning transit rights from the network's providers. Accentric's Cisco 7500 Series routers channel all connections. For more information, contact Accentric at 888-391-1009.

PSTN, IP Network Standards Bridged With Council
Level 3 Communications, Inc., is one of the founding companies of a new technical advisory council (TAC), created to gather leading communications hardware and software companies and produce technical standards to apply across existing circuit-based PSTN and IP networks. External control and data communications equipment management are expected results of open, interoperable protocols for integrated network access servers. TAC members are awaiting adoption from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-T Study Group 16, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) TIPHON project, and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). For more information, visit Level 3's Web site at www.L3.com.

Lucent, Motorola Produce Advanced DSP, Start Center
Both Lucent Technologies' Microelectronics Group and Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector have agreed to design a joint, Atlanta-based facility, Star Core, to develop next-generation DSP and cross-license existing DSP architectures. The companies will develop individual full-fledged DSP cores for communications, transportation, and consumer electronics industries, and in turn, allow manufacturers to provide various new hand-held, cellular, and speech recognition devices. "The alliance is unprecedented and is a very dramatic event for the DSP industry," Forward Concepts President Will Strauss said. Forward Concepts is a DSP-specific market research house. For more information, visit Lucent's Web site at www.lucent.com.

VocalTec, Lucent Take Leap With Full IP Interoperability
ITXC Corp. will be an initial carrier operating a fully interoperable IP telephony network with products from VocalTec Communications, Ltd. and Lucent Technologies due to consumer demand. Already supported by ITXC's WWeXchange service, a Lucent PacketStar Internet Telephony Server for Service Providers (ITS-SP) and VocalTec Ensemble Architecture solution will handle voice communications, fax, communications, routing, authorization, authentication, accounting, billing, network management, and settlement services. The plan's first phase will begin this fall. For more information, visit VocalTec's Web site at www.vocaltec.com.

Ascend Revamps Legacy Systems, Saves A Bundle
Ascend Communications, Inc., is reconstructing legacy transmission networks through expanding its multiservice core switching capabilities for optimal data and other legacy TDM service handling, while saving service providers transmission equipment expenses.

The integrated switching/transmission network offers identical yet cheaper, more flexible, and more profitable operation services of traditional network architectures. The system provides multiplexing, grooming, and protection. It also features the GX 550 "Smart" Core ATM switch for data service delivery and underlying transmission network for IP, frame relay, ATM, private line, and voice services. Ascend currently is conducting interoperability trials with providers and vendors. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.ascend.com.

Ericsson Announces All-Encompassing, GSM Solution
Ericsson GSM on the Net will integrate GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) wireless communications and IP technology for an all-in-one, standards-based infrastructure, allowing users to realize local and global mobility between voice, data, and video. GSM is integrated into a LAN/intranet arena, creating small GSM networks for individual organizations. Furthermore, GSM on the Net is cost-effective for installation, transport, and equipment, as standard network servers rather than telecom equipment provide the basis for the system's IP architecture. Additional benefits include adjustable service packages for individual organizations and vertical market applications, as well as local and global connectivity and true, single-number and -phone service with familiar application interfaces, regardless of location. For more information, contact Ericsson at 212-685-4030.

Direct CPE/Optical Network Connection
Osicom Technologies, Inc., has strengthened its GigaMux Metro DWDM product family with the Electrical Photonic Concentrator (EPC), lowering service providers' carrying costs for voice, video, and data traffic through direct optical and electrical interfaces to CPE equipment. Patent-pending, EPC cancels SONET cross-connect and ATM interface installation, producing a more affordable channel division and total protocol and format transparency option. GigaMux EPC products are available for shipment. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.osicom.com.

Ursus Spreads Commercial Operation Abroad
Ursus Telecom's packet-switched network is now operating commercially in Latin America and Northern Europe, with increased operations in these areas and in Africa to follow in the fall. The IP network employs frame relay technology for voice and fax, according to Chief Operating Officer Jeff Chaskin, and Ursus has obtained continuous high-quality bandwidth for its future global network. The unanticipated rate at which users in Ecuador are seeking voice and fax over data facilities has lead Ursus toward moving customers to direct access using limited in-ground facilities and Internet telephony. For more information, contact the company at 212-661-8030.

Additional Router Protocol Software From IEng
Two more routing protocols and a flexible network management interface have built on the Internet Engineering Group, LLC.'s, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and associated Routing Policy Engine. Used in large ISP backbones and tested against existing router vendor products, IEng's software is both portable to various operating system platforms and optimized for dynamic routing-required features and performance following Internet growth. Network architects, engineers, and operators can design efficient and controlled networks and control traffic flow, based on protocol features, with IEng's policy engine. OSPF, ISIS, and BGP comprise the software package. In addition, a maximized management system for on-the-fly configuration and full data collection/reporting and logging complete the set. For more information, contact the company at 734-213-4939.

Telstra, Siemens Internet/Telephone Experiment
In a quest to evolve telephony capabilities, Telstra Corporation Limited will begin trial service on international Internet calling. The six-month test will allow Telstra customers in Sydney, Australia to call London over the Internet via telephone handsets rather than through computers. Only those in Sydney can contact numbers in Greater London during the trial, designed to demonstrate combined capabilities otherwise not possible through each individual network alone. Telstra aims to find essential information for future product development decisions, all with help from Siemens, which will provide technologies for VoIP services within Australia and internationally. For more information, visit Telstra's Web site at www.telstra.com.au.

1-Net, Alcatel Test IP/ATM
Both 1-Net Singapore and Alcatel will test Alcatel's IP@ATM solution, an original and operational standards-based IP over ATM capability combining the best routing and switching features for connection-oriented networks over ATM. Network scalability increased by 20-fold, greater support for QoS levels, and high-speed flexible service provisioning across 1-Net's ATM network are possible with the solution. IP@ATM employs TAG switching, or leveraging the installed-base of 80 percent of the world's routers, and is designed to seamlessly migrate to the MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) standard when ratified. For more information, visit Alcatel's Web site at www.adn.alcatel.com.

Comcast Cable Upgrade, High Speed Internet
Comcast Cablevision has deployed over 437 miles of fiber optics to Chesterfield County, Va., in a new transmission network, bringing customers improved service and reception, more channels, and required technical platform for Internet access. The upgrade provides 24-hour, unlimited broadband Internet access, along with national and local content, directly to customers' computers via a coaxial cable connection, cable modem, and top Internet browsers. The "High Speed Education Connection" allows every neighborhood, elementary and secondary public and private school, and library passed by cable, where modems are commercially available, a cable modem for free, high-speed Internet access. The program allows free connection in at least one site per school. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.comcast.com.

IDT's Corporate Solution For Voice, Data/IP
IDT Corporation designed "Project David" as a business solution for sending both voice and data traffic over the company's IP network and reducing enterprise customer expenses. It should enable MIS managers full integration of all communications services under one network, along with flexibility and integration of voice/data networks. Corporate dedicated IDT users will receive up to twice the speed of current national dedicated ISPs at half the cost of current national dedicated providers with "Project David." It includes 3.5 cent-per-minute VoIP domestic phone calling and an averaged 60-percent discounted international calls. Direct IP incorporation into user PBXs permits toll-quality transmission over dedicated lines. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.idt.net.

VoIP Platform From InterVoice, WorldQuest
WorldQuest Networks is delivering domestic and international long-distance voice and fax services over the Internet to residential and commercial subscribers through InterVoice, Inc.'s, IN Control ESP platform. All of the product line's solutions include pre- and postpaid calling card, prepaid wireless, international callback, and one-number services - their features completely integrated on a single, multiapplication platform. "WorldQuest offers customers solutions which reduce long-distance costs while delivering excellent voice quality, security, and enhanced services," said WorldQuest Chair and CEO Michael Adler. He added, "The combination our Call Management System (CMS) software and the IN Control ESP Web interface enables us to provision these services over the Internet and is essential for delivering them instantly to new subscribers." For more information, visit InterVoice's Web site at www.intervoice.com.

Island Telecom Chooses Bridgewater Rapid IP
Island Telecom will announce innovative IP business services with the Bridgwater Systems Corporation WideSpan Service Controller. Island subsidiary Island Tel Advanced Solutions (ITAS) will tailor Internet, intranet, and extranet services to its business and residential customers through the scalable solution with comprehensive user and service profile management and user self-management features. WideSpan allows hosting of IP-based services with flexible accounting and billing options, critical to ITAS's future Virtual Business Centre for small/medium office multimedia. The solution offers rapid IP services creation and delivery, smaller administration costs, guaranteed service through fully redundant architecture, and managed subscriber growth. For more information, contact Bridgewater at its Web site, www.bridgwatersys.com.

Vienna, ACC Integrate Gateway
Vienna Systems Corporation and Advanced Computer Communications (ACC) will integrate Vienna's VoIP technology into ACC's Tigris multiservice remote access concentrators (RACs) for a scalable, high-performance, and fault-tolerant gateway. It supports up to 1500 ports per shelf and is based on industry standards, incorporating network management features and interoperating with current carriers' operation support systems (OSS). The H.323-compliant gateway offers call control for dynamic call set-up, routing, and billing management, along with IP/PSTN connectivity for reduced toll charges, consolidated networks, and new application deployment. ACC's Call-by-Call ability enables DSP resources intelligent, dynamic assignment to various services on a common pool of ports from a single platform. For more information, visit Vienna's Web site at www.viennasys.com.

NetSpeak Apps To Enhance Siemens' Solution
Siemens Telecom Network's VoIP solutions leverage NetSpeak Corporation's applications and client software for VoIP technologies, as a result of a joint effort between both companies aiming to deliver a complete carrier-grade IP telephony solution. The universally deployable InterXpress 2000 by Siemens provides high availability of service and public carrier-demanded toll-quality voice. Multiple telecom service providers are testing the system nationally and abroad. The system's attributes allow innovative service offerings and easy integration with legacy systems. Some of NetSpeak's IP applications feature network services to route and rate IP calls and point-to-multipoint voice communications. For more information, visit NetSpeak's Web site at www.netspeak.com.

VoCAL Offers Fax-Over-IP
The VoIPfax Software Library makes real-time fax messaging over public or private IP networks, including the Internet, possible. VoCAL Technologies designed the solution, compliant with all North American and international telephony standards, for corporate and enterprise-wide server networks. In addition, VoIPfax is fully compliant with the ITU's Recommendation T.38 global message and data standard. The full-featured library runs on high-performance DSPs for robust, enterprise-ready solutions. Combined with other VoCAL products, this latest solution enables seamless voice/fax relay operation from call startup to disconnect and offers a powerful platform for next generation communications servers. Currently available is an optimized version for Analog Devices' ADSP-218X DSP chips. For more information, contact the company at 716-688-4675.

RightFAX Supports Brooktrout Interfaces
RightFAX, Inc.'s, support for Brooktrout Technology's reliable Netaccess Primary Rate (PRI) and Basic Rate (BRI) ISDN telephony interfaces reaches 25 countries. RightFAX will handle single- and dual-span T1/E1 PRI boards for both ISA and PCI bus computers, proving crucial for enterprise organizations running Exchange and SAP, which generate heavy fax volume. Partial configurations also allow companies versatility and lower costs through expansion abilities. "With this new supported hardware," said OfficeCOM Product Manager Albert Lentink, "RightFAX offers a more simplified digital installation (less physical connections) and a more advanced integration with the telecom infrastructure (PSTN or PABX)." OfficeCOM is a RightFAX European distributor. For more information, visit RightFAX's Web site at www.rightfax.com.

RSL COM Buys Motorola Division
RSL Communications, Ltd. (RSL COM) will acquire Motorola Tel.co, a Motorola European Cellular Subscriber Group division, in cash and assumption of working capital deficit. RSL COM will cross-sell its existing services through Motorola Tel.co's distribution channel of over 1000 points of sale and an existing direct sales force. RSL COM has operations in the four major areas of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Belgium, where service providers have granted Motorola Tel.co nine licenses. The acquisition grants RSL COM "an extremely strong management team that understands the European mobile service provider market," according to Itzhak Fisher, president and CEO of RSL COM. For more information, visit RSL COM's Web site at www.rslcom.com.

FNet Pushes Setup With LDNet Buy
Upgraded LDNet nodes will comprise the FNet Network and offer discounted long-distance service, prepaid phone card, and voice mail features as a result of Franklin Telecom subsidiary FNet Corp's acquisition of LDNet, a VoIP company in Ohio. The global network employs traditional land lines, Internet telephony, and satellite capabilities for assured, global toll quality calls by the best cost-effective means around the world. Scheduled are 500 domestic and international sites over the next three years. LNet reports its initial FCC 214 application approval for common-carrier status. For more information, contact Franklin Telecom at 805-373-8688.

Hewlett Packard Delivers Optimized Routing
Hewlett Packard Company's enhanced HP OpenCall Intelligent Network (IN) platform offers SS7/ISUP and IP signaling on leading RISC-based UNIX computing systems over a scalable, versatile, carrier-grade platform for service creation, implementation, and management of voice and data services. The solution, currently available, allows network solution providers to establish optimized Internet dial-up traffic routing over the PSTN and Internet. Hewlett Packard's global telecommunications support organization maintains its OpenCall platform- component of the company's Extended Network strategy toward a common service-delivery base enabling the PSTN, mobile networks, and Internet with identical end-user service. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.hp.com.

Interactive Web Activity With GeoTel Server
Currently available, GeoTel Communications Corporation's Enterprise Web extends Intelligent CallRouter (ICR)-managed customer-contact options for interactive, Web-initiated transactions. Any Web server can connect directly to the ICR for seamless Web/call center integration, and customers can access a single line for both voice and Internet connections or dedicated line for each with the open, industry-standard interface. Enterprise Web functions on a standard peripheral gateway platform and supports user-friendly features to give companies Web-based application options matching their individual business needs. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.geotel.com.

Open Port, Microsoft Speed IP-Fax Delivery
Open Port Technology Inc., will license Microsoft rights to offer software in its developing server products, while Microsoft has invested in Open Port, granting it rights to technologies such as least cost routing (LCR). Together, they will strive toward future IP messaging capabilities and hasten IP-fax solutions to companies using Microsoft Windows NT Server-based products. Microsoft fits Open Port's service for its third tier of customers - applications for CPE equipment for Internet faxing capabilities. Open Port Chair and CEO Randy Storch is hailing the pact "a huge win for Internet service providers," as it "creates a much larger selection of potential on-ramps for their IP-fax services." He said results are heavier traffic and an expanded potential market. For more information, contact Open Port at 800-678-3291.

Telia, Clarent in VoIP Launch
Telia Light AB is applyling Clarent Corporation's Gateway and Comand Center products to its pilot VoIP phone-to-phone service in a continued effort to bring the program to an expanded mass market. The Gateway and Command Center group top voice quality, sophisticated management, and billing with scalable architecture for network service providers and large enterprises to employ IP data networks as a robust platform for voice, fax, and data. For more information, contact Clarent at 650-306-7511.

MiBridge Gives VoIP To COM2001 Technologies Server
COM2001 is using I-Link Inc., subsidiary MiBridge Inc.,'s VoIP technology for its network telephone exchange (NTX) line of Microsoft Windows NT Server-based computer telephony and unified messaging products. Now, linked, multiple NTX Enterprise Communications Servers (ECSs) over dispersed areas can create high-density, fully distributed office environments and call centers. ISPs will be able to offer value-added services such as unified messaging and long-distance over IP to customers with MiBridge's anticipated scalable technology. MiBridge creates voice and fax compression software algorithms and feature-rich application programming interfaces (APIs) to be integrated into complete systems for building VoIP gateways. The NTX ECS provides telephony and messaging customers their biggest requests, including telephone switch, auto attendant, and unified messaging features. For more information, visit I-Link's Web site at www.i-link.net.

Combo Aspect Effort For Call Center Solution
Aspect Telecommunications has addressed increased demand for state-of-the-art, network-based call center solutions with its Network Router and Enhanced Services System, offering network service suppliers single unified environment-managed and single vendor-supported outlets from existing capabilities. With the combined effort, both network service providers and customer premise-based environments can expect comprehensive, integrated call center functionality. Aspect will distribute these solutions through introductory OEM and Intelligent Network channel, targeting carriers and suppliers seeking attention with enhanced customer interaction services. The Network Router responds to PSTN and other systems' requests on a call-by-call basis. Using standard voice and data protocols, the Enhanced Services System communicates directly with the network carrier central office and signal control points (SCPs). For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.aspect.com.

AG, Loretto Pick Up Speed On Internet
Loretto Telephone Company will use AG Communication Systems' ATIUM GateWay DSL for heightened Internet and LAN access for its educational and corporate customers. The end-to-end solution will allow users in Middle Tennessee increased productivity from quicker data transportation. ATIUM GateWay allows users Internet connection rates up to 2.5 Mbps downstream and 1.0 Mbps upstream. With DSL, service providers can leave voice services intact while producing multimegabit data rates. The capability splits existing copper phone wire spectrums between voice and data - baseband voice below 4 Khz and data, on the higher broadband spectrum. "Labor productivity gains, especially for businesses, drive costs lower and improve a company's competitive position," said Mark Emery, vice president and general manager of the New Ventures Group at AG. For more information, contact AG at 602-581-4198.

Cost-Effective Faxing With @fax Solution
FAXfree Server Small Business Edition (SBE) is ideal for small offices, as it helps them cut long-distance costs with strong Internet fax routing capabilities. @fax Inc., tightly integrated the server with Microsoft BackOffice Small Business Server, optimized for companies using up to 25 PCs and for other Microsoft tools. FAXfree offers users the Internet as an routing alternative for faxes to and from desktops and fax machines at cheaper prices than those relying only on phones. The solution's adaptive least cost routing (ALCR) selects the most cost-effective call server within franchise or branch office networks. In addition, small businesses will find flexibility toward growth with the scalable server, available through value-added partners (VAPs) at $695 for a five-client license. For more information, contact @fax at 256-721-3369.

ArelNet Releases Fax/E-mail Module
i-Tone service providers give clients personal fax numbers, which forward faxes to their e-mail accounts, attaching the fax image so it is graphically kept intact. The Fax-to-Email (FTEM) module allows users central management of all faxes from one location and eliminates long-distance phone charges upon forwarding messages to remote sites. Moreover, small office/home office (SOHO) clients not enjoying a separate, receiving fax machine can appreciate ensured, unaltered deliveries to e-mail through the i-Tone FTEM module, currently available to carriers, ISPs, and entrepreneurs, as well. For more information, visit ArelNet's Web site at www.arelnet.com.

Riparius, Delta Three Reach Pact, Milestone
Riparius Ventures' introductory INT100CS permits PC calls with normal handsets as opposed to microphones and speakers. Together, Riparius' handset and PC-to-Phone software by RSL Communications subsidiary Delta Three, Inc., allow users to call anyone anywhere at lower prices than traditional phone calls. Both companies will market the software and handsets to ISPs, retail outlets, online communities, and college bookstores. Improved sound quality and telephony communication privacy is simpler and possible with the INT100CS handset. And, according to Riparius Ventures President David McElvaney and Delta Three CEO Elie Wurtman, the integration is "a milestone," as Delta's global network "can reduce phone bills by as much as 80 percent." For more information, contact Riparius at 800-394-8812.

Telogy, Wind River Promote Real-Time System
Telogy Networks, Inc., has joined Wind River Systems' WindLink for Tornado Partner Program to provide broadened communications options for an industry-standard, real-time operating system. The Golden Gateway VoIP software allows communications equipment developers scalable voice and fax over IP solutions. Four simultaneous channels find support from the gateway's multifunction, multichannel capabilities, and it allows numerous voice and fax calls dynamic allocations and processing in a single DSP. The DSP accompanies a microprocessor (Micro) element - requiring a real-time operating system such as VxWorks, but remaining versatile in employment. For more information, contact Telogy at 301-515-8580.

NEXTLINK Deploys PulsePoint Solution

PulsePoint Communications will send its products and systems architecture to NEXTLINK Communications, Inc., for enhanced network services. PulsePoint expects to serve all 31 NEXTLINK markets by the close of this year. Expanded service offerings are scheduled for 1999, but clients will first receive rich, robust business messaging services for voice and fax mail. PulsePoint President and CEO Mark Ozur said, "PulsePoint solutions will provide NEXTLINK customers with an unparalleled array of enhanced services choices, demonstrating the advantages of PulsePoint in serving CLEC markets." For more information, contact PulsePoint at 805-566-2000.

MIND Modules For Internet Billing
New add-on modules for MIND CTI's iPhonEX IP Telephony Billing and Customer Management Systems include a Web Client, Web Customer Bill, and iPhonEX Guard Fraud Detection module. The billing system offers real-time call cut-off , calling card management, individualized customer rate tables, and flexible fax charge options. The modules allow the following, respectively: updating and viewing of customer information through any Web browser; customer access to calls made and invoices; and stolen call/phone misuse. iPhonEX is Windows NT-based and offers telcos, ITSPs, and corporations a comprehensive billing and call traffic analysis solution for IP voice and fax. For more information, visit MIND's Web site at www.mindcti.com.






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