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To: Goldbug Guru who wrote (102)	6/8/1999 1:44:00 AM
From: Bruce Byall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 963

TRITON NETWORK SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES THE NEXT TREMENDOUS STEP IN THE 'EVOLUTION OF THE INTERNET' -- 100 MPBS INTERNET ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORLANDO, Fla., Jun 8, 1999 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Triton Network Systems introduces their "one hundred times the speed" affordable broadband wireless network -- offering 100 Mbps Internet service -- which will be the next tremendous step in the "evolution of the Internet." Coinciding with the recent announcement of a nationwide broadband wireless carrier to trialtheir 100 Mbps Wireless Network in Silicon Valley, Triton Network Systems is announcing their enabling network solution Invisible Fiber(TM) Internet. "High Speed Internet access will no longer be only for the deep pocketed. Invisible Fiber Internet brings speed to the business masses," says Brian Andrew, president and CEO of Triton Network Systems, and visionary and co-patentor of the 100 Mbps Invisible Fiber Internet network solution. Invisible Fiber Internet provides a broadband wireless carrier the ability to offer affordable 100 Mbps Internet access to their targeted business market segments -- small and medium size organizations." Andy Fillat, managing director at Advent International, investor of Triton Network Systems, and investor and board member of Advanced Radio Telecom believes that the formula for success in broadband wireless is to offer services that cannot be obtained from copper, and are too expensive to obtain from fiber. "The biggest success will be for a carrier to offer a service that is fifty to two hundred percent more, for a 10-20 percent premium over what the customer is currently spending. Triton Network Systems Invisible Fiber Internet is the enabler of that strategy and is the first to market with a revolutionary price/performance proposition." The key to delivering affordable 100 Mbps connection to all business market segments is the ability for the carrier to charge for "bytes-carried" as opposed to the typical flat rate billing approach. Each customer willhave a 100 Base-T Ethernet connection and can be charged on a tiered basis. For example, a business as small as five to sixteen people could receive a 100 Mbps connection for a base monthly fee of $250, allowing usage of up to 2,000 Megabytes. Additional usage is then charged at $0.15 per Megabyte. "This increased speed will significantly change business dynamics," Andrew says. "Think about how much time you spend downloading files via the Internet. At 100 Mbps, the download is quicker than your personal computer. We compared the download of a 25 Megabyte file on a T1 connection (1.544 Mbps) versus our 100 Mbps. The T1 download took eight minutes ... the 100 Mbps took 10 seconds. In fact the personal computer took longer to save the download to its hard disk drive than it took to initially download from the Internet." Until today, a T1 line at 1.544 Mbps has been considered the only affordable, moderately high-speed choice available from any Internet Service Provider, wireless or wireline. Bill Frezza, general partner with Adams Capital Management and investor in Triton Network Systems and ART says, "Triton's product and progressive ring architecture will make a critical difference and will propel -- not nudge -- the ISP world out of web-surfing and into real, usable business applications." The Invisible Fiber Internet deployment is in a consecutive point ring using Triton Network Systems 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet Invisible Fiber Units creating an Invisible Fiber Internet Network. This network delivers a 100 Mbps IP connection to every business customer on the network. The Invisible Fiber Internet Network connects to each end-user within the building using a standard 100 Base-T Ethernet connection. With this customer interconnection, network infrastructure costs are significantly reduced because there is no need for any ancillary equipment that converts data from telephony to IP. Internet service providers today cannot cost-effectively provide their business customers 100 Mbps speed route diversity, nor do they use a "self-healing" ring approach. Fixed-wireless local access offerings like point-to-point and point-to-multipoint are similarly incapable of achieving such speeds and are likewise unable to provide a route-diverse and self-healing network. Because of the consecutive point architecture and the quality of the Triton Network Systems' product line, Invisible Fiber Internet Networks are inherently self-healing and route diverse, which equates to additional reliability. This network speed combined with service reliability will be the enabler for e-commerce, portals and network PC software-on-demandapplications. Consecutive point networks deployed using Invisible Fiber Internet products offer significant features and advantages. Such features and advantages are: -- Native IP networks -- Fully redundant, route-diverse, self-healing networks -- High speed -- 100 Mbps to every end-user -- High reliability -- 99.999% link availability at 10(-12) Bit Error Rate(BER) -- Full Operations Administration Maintenance & Provisioning (OAM&P) functionality and performance monitoring -- Usage billing capability These features and advantages translate to such substantial end-user benefits as savings, never-before-available speed, guaranteed availability and the assurance of a highly reliable Internet service network. About Triton Network Systems Triton Network Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of broadband fixed wireless network products and pioneer of consecutive point -- a self-healing route-diverse network architecture. The company's Invisible Fiber(TM) high bandwidth broadband wireless network product line covers the 38 GHz, Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS) and Local Multipoint Communication Systems (LMCS) markets, with functionality designed to fiber optic specifications. Triton Network Systems is privately held and funded by such venture capitalists as syndicate leader Oak Investment Partners, Worldview Technology Partners, Telesoft Partners, Advent International, Bessemer Ventures, Adams Capital Management and Chase Ventures. Capital investment represents more than $45 million in financial commitments and exemplifies the confidence that these investors have in Triton Network Systems' product offerings. Triton Network Systems is designing, developing and manufacturing products such as Invisible Fiber(TM) SONET OC-3 that make possible the success of broadband fixed wireless in the telephony and data marketplace, and Invisible Fiber(TM) Internet which enables the "evolution of the Internet" -- e-commerce and up and coming applications for the Internet -- bydelivering 100 Mbps connections to businesses. SOURCE Triton Network Systems, Inc.

To: Goldbug Guru who wrote (102)	6/8/1999 1:52:00 AM
From: Goldbug Guru	Respond to of 963

THE POWER OF LEHMAN BROTHERS!!!! VerticalNet (Nasdaq: VERT) stock was at more than $100 (US$) in early trading today, which begs the question: What is Lehman Brothers thinking now? On Monday, Lehman Brothers, and Hambrecht & Quist both initiated coverage of VerticalNet, which operates business-to-business community sites for various industries, with buy ratings. Lehman, which took VerticalNet public at $16 last month set a price target of $70. On Monday, VerticalNet shattered that target, climbing 19-9/16 to 74-1/16. Now the stock is close to doubling in four days, and shares are trading for more than six times what they were when VerticalNet went public. This is momentum trading at its most extreme. Day traders are obviously having a field day with this one Wait until LEHMAN BROTHERS & JP MORGAN spread their holy power on HSAC.