3/1/99 FTEL NEWS RELEASE #2
Monday March 1, 9:08 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Franklin Telecom Introduces Internet PBX
Product Debuts at CTExpo in L.A.
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 1999-- Franklin Telecom (OTC BB: FTEL - news) today introduced the Franklin Internet PBX: A Voice over IP PBX that includes a router, firewall and T1 integrator. This client server office telephone system is designed to simplify and streamline communication among a geographically distributed work group.
Peter Buswell, Franklin's President and COO explained, ''The Internet PBX is what corporate America has been waiting for. It allows corporations to place telephone and fax calls to all of their offices without long distance or local telephone charges. As an added plus, it's a fully functional PBX.''
The Franklin Internet PBX interconnects a Frame Relay based T1 from your Internet Service Provider (ISP) into the same telephone system that serves your Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) and Inter Xchange Carrier (IXC) allowing you to freely mix voice over IP with circuit switched phones calls. Each Line Interface Unit (LIU) supports 24 analog stations that can dial access either VoIP or circuit switched connections. For example, the system could be configured so that the user would dial ''9'' for a regular ''switched'' call and dial ''8'' for an Internet, free call. Multiple geographically distributed LIU's can operate under the control of a single Microsoft NT Call Controller.
Buswell continued, ''This is a marriage made in corporate heaven--bringing all the sexy new IP applications to the established functionality of the PBX. This is absolutely great for corporate America. Up until now, a Data Voice Gateway (DVG) still had a local call at each end, and while long distance charges could be eliminated, there was still that local fee. Now, when your branch offices talk to each other via the Franklin Internet PBX, that is a completely free call. This is something to shout about!''
The Franklin Internet PBX (Voice Exchange) will be demonstrated at the CTExpo Spring '99 ctexpo.com which will be held March 2, 3rd and 4th at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Franklin Telecom will be in Booth 3301. This is the first of four product announcements which will be made prior to the show.
The primary business of Franklin Telecom, founded in 1981, is the design and manufacturing of communications devices, high speed LAN, WAN, Telco and software. Franklin customers have installed over 100,000 nodes worldwide. Franklin's Internet subsidiary FNet provides Voice over Internet Protocol global Telco services.
Certain statements in this press release constitute ''forward-looking statements'' within 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 which may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements, expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
For additional information about this announcement, visit the
Officer's Message page at Franklin's Web Site:
www.ftel.com
www.franklin.net - for Internet Services and Access
www.fnet.net - for Internet Telephony & Franklin's Next
Generation Telephone Company
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Contact:
Franklin Telecom, Westlake Village
Helen West for Shareholder Relations, 805/373-8688
Debra Kent for Media Relations, 805/373-8688
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