FRANKLIN TELECOM RECEIVES BEST OF SHOW FOR INTERNET TELEPHONY
PRODUCTS
OTCBB FTEL
For Immediate Release
June 3, 1998
FRANKLIN TELECOM RECEIVES BEST OF SHOW FOR INTERNET TELEPHONY
PRODUCTS
AWARD GOES TO TEMPEST SYSTEM'S BILLING AUTHORIZATION SERVER
Westlake Village, CA. June 3, 1998 -- Franklin Telecom (OTC: FTEL) today announced its Tempestr
IP Telephony System won the "Best of CTIT EXPO" award for outstanding products and services
demonstrated at the Spring '98 Expo, which just concluded in Baltimore.
CTI Expo, sponsored by Technology Marketing Corp.'s (TMC) CTI, Internet TelephonyT, and C@ll
Center SolutionsT magazines, is the leading educational forum on the emerging field of
Computer-Telephony Integration. According to TMC editors and engineers, "Nominations were judged
based on technological innovation. An emphasis was placed on a product's feature set, ability to work
with existing standards, and the degree to which it contributed to the development of future CTI, Internet
telephony and call center products and services."
Franklin is the first and only Internet Telephony company to incorporate invoicing technology with Voice
over Internet Protocol (VoIP) hardware. The Billing & Authorization Server, which supports credit, debit,
pre-paid and other account types, enables real time Web based customer tracking as well as managing the
subscriber database. As a call is placed, the Server has two primary functions: it authenticates the user
code (PIN number) and verifies that the account has sufficient credit; it then routes the call by the
timeliest and most cost efficient means possible.
The Tempest Billing & Authorization Server runs on Windows NT with SQL Server, and is highly
scalable. It can support a very large network of VoIP Gateways, using a state-of-the-art client/server
architecture.
Frank Peters, president and CEO of Franklin, said, "Two hundred of the world's most technologically
advanced companies, including Lucent, AT&T, Natural Microsystems and Ericsson, participated in the
CTI Expo. To be judged among these companies and come away with a best of show award makes us
feel enormously proud. This is the third time in the last eight months that the Tempest System has won a
best of show award."
The primary business of Franklin Telecom (OTC: FTEL), founded in 1981, is the design and manufacturing of communications devices, high speed LAN,
WAN, Telco and Satellite Systems and software. Franklin has an installed base of over 100,000 nodes worldwide. Franklin's Internet subsidiaries, FNet and
Internet Passport provide services using FTEL products.
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