[March 18, 1999]

Interphase Enters Voice And Fax Over IP Market With New Subsidiary

Interphase Corporation, an international supplier of enterprise networking technologies, announced the formation of a wholly-owned subsidiary to specialize in the development of IP telephony networking technologies. The subsidiary, QuesCom Corporation, will concentrate its development efforts on solutions that will allow corporate networks to consolidate data and telecommunications network traffic for cost-effective transmission over IP-based networks.

Voice over IP (VoIP) is a technology that enables the transmission of voice calls over data networks, utilizing breakthrough developments in DSP (Digital Signal Processing), Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) and their application to existing IP based networks. Corporations today typically operate two communications networks, one for voice and another for data. Quescom VoIP Gateway products offer substantial cost savings to companies that are already utilizing TCP/IP by routing traditional PSTN phone calls via their existing data network.

"Voice over IP is revolutionizing telecommunications through the convergence of voice, video, fax, and data," said Greg Kalush, Interphase president and CEO. "This exciting new technology drastically reduces long-distance costs for the enterprise, and some research indicates that as many as 50-percent of major corporations will be investigating or deploying some form of VoIP by the year 2000."

Research suggests that companies can cut intra-company phone/fax communication costs by 70 to 80 percent. In response, the demand for VoIP Gateways is expected to explode. Market research firm Frost & Sullivan is predicting that sales of IP gateways are expected to approach $1.81 billion by the end of 2001.

In addition to the VoIP capability, QuesCom differentiates its products from other vendors by enhancing the existing PBX with new features like RAS, Unified Messaging and Least Cost Routing. QuesCom's IP telephony solutions can be deployed into the existing phone system architecture and are designed to be easily upgraded in the future to function as a full LAN-based PBX system using all the benefits of converged voice and data over IP.

"Based on their present data networks and intranets or Internet VPNs, companies can implement voice services easily, and gradually migrate to the use of total IP-based communications networks," said Philippe Oros, QuesCom president. "QuesCom is developing phone and fax IP gateway solutions to enable overlay voice/fax networks on top existing corporate enterprise IP networks. This will provide substantial savings by eliminating voice and fax pay-by-the-minute calling charges by using already-paid-for LAN/WAN connections, and gives a new level of economy to remote private networks."

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