Jeff, FWIW here's a newsletter from DGIV dated 8-8-98. (Note the boldface, they are working on the sb-10 filing.)
Hello,
And welcome to another of Digitcom's "every once in a while" information
updates. In this issue you'll find:
- A Note from the Chairman - Jimmy Chin summarizes the company's
progress
- Lighting Up the Network - The Digitcom Network to establish POPs in
5 PacRim Countries
- A New Technology Alliance - Natural MicroSystems joins Digitcom in
Network rollout
- Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch... - New, powerful system positions the
company's administration for rapid growth.
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== A Message from Jimmy Chin, CEO ==
Since our last "Investor News" letter, Digitcom has made progress on
many fronts - including a complete makeover of the Company's Website.
Most of this progress has been "incremental", meaning that agreements
arrived at and already announced have moved forward on their own
"day-to-day" schedule. But there are a couple of noteworthy
developments to watch for in the coming weeks.
First, is our scheduled implementation of the Digitcom Network in key
Pacific Rim markets. More detail can be found in the story below, but
here I'd like to acknowledge the contribution of David Wong and
Digitcom's acquisition of J & D International in smoothing the way. Not
only has their friendships and business associations with individuals in
these countries helped, but Mr. Wong's long association with Natural
MicroSystems' development program and their NT VoIP platform has brought
us closer to a potentially valuable technology partner.
Then, our continued "incremental" progress in other areas should result
in positive developments. Digitcom's distinction of being one of a very
few ISP license-holders in Indonesia has brought us into close contact
with energetic telecom services companies in that country. Our DLD/TLA
office in Russia is working hard to finalize arrangements for Digitcom
Network installations to follow our PacRim points-of-presence. While it
is too early to make any definitive announcements, we're encouraged by
the steps taken in these countries over the past few weeks.
And, of course, my thanks and congratulations to Dee Levang and Mark
Friedlander for designing and implementing an exciting new Website for
the Company. Working under the guidance of Roger Templeton, these two
have excelled by serving up an animated Site that reflects the
cutting-edge uses of the Internet and IP that Digitcom represents.
Check it out at <http://www.digitcom.com>.
And, watch for new developments to be posted there in the coming weeks!
- Jimmy Chin, CEO
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== Lighting Up the Network ==
Digitcom announced today the scheduled installation of our "IntraVoice
CO" gateway points-of-presence in five Pacific Rim countries. These
network nodes will come online along with our Los Angeles termination
point from late August through the month of September.
These scheduled installations will be fully tested using a 56Kbps
switch-to-switch data line provided by Commsource International, Los
Angeles, with our commercial service launch to follow immediately upon
completion of testing on a dedicated T1 circuit. Each country will have
the capability to be served by "Intranet" leased lines of up to 1.5Mbps
of bandwidth of voice using Digitcom's compression through digital fiber
ocean cables. The U.S. termination gateway will be on a Northern
Telecom DSM-250 phone switch.
The first cities to be served on the Digitcom Network will be Seoul
Korea, Tokyo Japan, Taipei Taiwan, Jakarta Indonesia, and Sydney
Australia.
The Company plans to target marketing to wholesalers, corporate
customers, and expatriate communities looking for quality long distance
voice communications at a much lower cost than is currently available.
Direct marketers will retail Digitcom long distance with pre-paid and
debit calling cards.
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== Digitcom Selects Natural MicroSystems ==
Digitcom's first rollout of VoIP points-of-presence will make use of
Natural MicroSystems (NMSS) Fusion(TM) IP voice technology.
Fusion was chosen for its high density E1 and T1 interface built on an
NT server platform. Digitcom's NT-flavored "IntraVoice CO(TM)"
developed by our own David Wong has a long (in Internet years)
association with Natural MicroSystems' development environment.
The Fusion platform is the industry's most scalable, highest-performance
PC development platform for standards-based Internet Protocol (IP)
telephony gateways. Their system architecture allows for IP-phone
gateways that can grow from 8 ports to multiple T1s/E1s with no increase
in latency or decrease in performance. This means that from the
smallest 4-simultaneous-conversation configuration, Fusion's scalable
architecture can expand to the highest port capacity gateway available
today. Full use of a T1 connection will accommodate 192 voice links and
even more fax transmissions. Handling thousands of calls simultaneously
is possible with a full build-out of this Natural MicroSystems system
technology.
Fusion is fully compliant with both the International Telecommunications
Union's (ITU's) H.323 specification and the International Multimedia
Telecommunications Consortium's (IMTC's) Voice over IP (VoIP)
Implementation Agreement.
As Mr. Chin said in his release announcing the choice of the Fusion
platform, "We're convinced that Natural MicroSystems will be a valuable
technology partner in the development of Digitcom's advanced value-added
technologies."
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== Oracle Powers New Accounting System ==
The Company has recently acquired a powerful new tool for its business
administration and for future network services development. For the
past several weeks our network administration and accounting personnel
have been implementing a very robust accounting system from Synergistic
Computer Solutions that makes use of Oracle's latest database suite.
The whole is run on a Sun Solaris server with a Windows NT application
server "in attendance".
Weeks of installation, testing, configuration and training have preceded
our accounting staff's efforts to consolidate past and current financial
data on the new system. The process has been as smooth as one could
expect with such a many-faceted and challenging task. No significant
delays in our anticipated SEC filing have been encountered, nor are
foreseen, as a result of this conversion.
The Synergistic NDS package, coupled with Oracle's Developer 2000 tools,
provides the Company with a system poised to grow rapidly alongside
Digitcom's international operations.
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The Small Print:
This release of "Digitcom Investor News" includes "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of
1934, as amended. All statements other than statements of historical
fact included in this release, including without limitation, Digitcom's
business strategy, plans and objectives, are forward-looking
statements. Although Digitcom believes that the expectations reflected
in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no
assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially from Digitcom's
expectations include, without limitation, Digitcom's ability to
negotiate final terms of the transactions described on favorable terms,
if at all, and general economic and competitive factors.
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