First Phone-to-Phone, Voice-Over-Internet Call From U.S.
To China a Complete Success
Tuesday February 3, 9:00 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
First Phone-to-Phone, Voice-Over-Internet Call From U.S.
To China a Complete Success
Franklin Telecom's State-Of-The-Art Tempest(R) Data Voice Gateway Used
by CyComm for Historic "Virtual Toll Quality" Telephone Call
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 1998-- Franklin Telecom Corp.
(www.ftel.com), a leading provider of telecommunications and Internet telephony equipment, software and services, today announced that CyComm, a private telecommunications company, used Franklin's Tempest(R) Data Voice Gateway (DVG) to complete the first successful voice over Internet call between the greater Los Angeles area and mainland China.
''We tested several voice-over-Internet devices and found the voice quality of the Franklin Tempest, when used to complete a telephone call over thousands of miles through an international
Internet connection, provides as close to toll-quality voice transmission as anyone could want to hear,'' said Lee Guo, president of CyComm. ''Our engineers were especially impressed with the
Tempest's packet recovery and hardware compression technology.''
CyComm has been conducting evaluation tests of Franklin's Tempest in the U.S. and believes there is a strong market for this service in China, as well as in other Pacific Rim countries. CyComm
established the far-end test site in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province near Shanghai.
Hangzhou has a population of over one million people. The call was received at Franklin Telecom's headquarters location in Westlake Village, CA.
''Franklin is excited to be a part of this historic phone call,'' said Frank Peters, president and CEO of Franklin Telecom. ''We believe this inaugural call signals a new age for long distance and international telephony -- an age where such a call as this will cost only pennies per minute rather than today's direct dial business day calling rate of $2.60 a minute to mainland China.''
Franklin Telecom Corp. (FTEL), founded in 1981, designs and manufacturers communications devices including, high-speed LAN, WAN, telco and satellite systems, software as well as the new
Tempest(R) Data Voice Gateway for voice over Internet telephony. FTEL has an installed base of more than 100,000 nodes worldwide. Major customers include 3Com, IBM, Citibank, Tandem
Computer, Oracle Corporation [Nasdaq:ORCL - news] and the New York Stock Exchange.
FTEL's Internet subsidiaries, FNet and Internet Passport, provide services using FTEL products. FNet is a provider of Internet access and services to businesses and individuals. The company's
stock is traded on the over the counter market under the symbol FTEL.
CyComm Corporation, a private telecommunications company, is focused on building international networks to provide integrated date, voice and fax services. CyComm Corporation is one of few
leading telecommunications service providers that have the ability to reach out to Pacific Rim countries and connect US customers to their clients in those highly regulated telecommunications
markets. In addition to the voice over IP technology, CyComm Corporation also provides dedicated phone line services to Southeast Asian countries.
Certain statements in this news release constitute ''forward-looking statements'' with the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors
that many cause the actual results, performance or achievements, express and implied by such
forward-looking statements.
Contact:
Franklin Telecom
Diane McCarthy, 805/379-8649
dianemc@ftel.net
or
Rourke.MS&L
Tiffany Hilton, 408/453-9194
thilton@rourke.com |
