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Technology Stocks : Data Race (NASDAQ: RACE) NEWS! 2 voice/data/fax: ONE LINE!
RACE 389.02+1.5%Nov 21 9:30 AM EST

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To: Don Hood who wrote (28898)6/4/1998 12:07:00 AM
From: Kashish King  Read Replies (1) of 33268
 
If you can't communicate over copper quickly enough you improve the protocols before you replace the copper wiring. The Internet is not static, it's simply a collection of networks of which agree to use a standard set of communications protocols. The protocols aren't static either, they evolve over time. Since the original protocols were not designed to handle time-sensitive communications they added a new set of enhanced protocols which can handle voice, video or incoming noise from Horsehead Nebula, it doesn't matter, it's all just data.

Using these cheezy simultaneous voice/data modems which have been kicking around for years will allow you to talk to somebody on the other end who has precisely the same equipment. All the modem manufacturers make these types of modems and Data Race simply threw in a PBX card interface and some software to create a wholly proprietary system. We can only guess at the reliability and they did recent allude to the need to improve the voice coding and decoding.

So while RACE tried to adapted an existing voice/data solution to a corporate market the industry moved ahead with standards which would integrate voice, video and data through the dial-up LANs, VPNs and the Internet. What can you do with Be There! that you can't do without installing a proprietary equipment on both ends? Not a darn thing! What they claim is some degree of voice/data simultaneity, so what? Get a mobile phone and be done with it. We're not talking about people who sit in front of their PC all day, those people use ISDN if they are off-site. Even if they did, the market RACE addressed has no time for cheezy gimicks; they can e-mail, fax, voice-mail and talk in real-time using standard equipment they can buy at any department store.

207.201.151.179

The Data Race Recipe for Disaster

1. Take commodity voice/data modem technology.
2. Add commodity PBX interface.
3. Claim breakthrough.
4. Find vendor.
5. Sell stuff. NOT!

I guess 4 out of 5 ain't bad but that last one is a doozy for shareholders.
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