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To: Burjis S. who wrote (48800)	7/7/1999 1:54:00 AM
From: SMALL FRY	Respond to of 120523

Thanks... I will watch both of them for breakouts... SF

To: Burjis S. who wrote (48800)	7/7/1999 2:35:00 AM
From: Jenna	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 120523

Being the picture of health I pinched a nerve in my back on the tennis court this afternoon trying a "Lindsay Davenport" maneuver. After some cortisone, I should be back on my chair in the morning and ready to go.. Luckily it happened after 4:00. My last sports injury was getting my trigger finger wrenched between the "K" and "U" key on my keyboard.. Guess I'll stick to my Life Step in the future.

To: Burjis S. who wrote (48800)	7/7/1999 2:15:00 PM
From: Margaret Mateer	Respond to of 120523

Burj, re: hyc - 45% growth in shipments not bad and there appears to be a new revenue stream coming on line. btw, did you notice the double bottom on huge volume back in early March? Technically looks like its getting ready for an assault on 10 on its way to 15. Hypercom's Turnkey IP Telephony Solution Captures Best of Show At CTI Expo BusinessWire, Wednesday, July 07, 1999 at 13:12 PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 1999--Spring CTI Expo '99, the premier event in the rapidly growing datacom/telecom convergence industry, awarded Hypercom's (NYSE:HYC) e-Telephony service provider solutions "Spring 1999 Best of Show" among more than 300 top telecommunications companies exhibiting in May at the Washington Convention Center. E-Telephony unites the technology and business components Internet Service Providers and other carriers need to provision IP telephony services; namely, Voice-over-IP gateways, electronic card payment, e-commerce and business support services. e-Telephony changes the business model for providers considering IP telephony by reducing time-to-market and the efforts required to source and integrate infrastructure solutions. "Our editors selected Hypercom for the outstanding impression they made on the exhibit floor," said Rich Tehrani, group publisher of Technology Marketing Corporation(tm) and co-chairman of CTI(tm) Expo. "Products like Hypercom's e-Telephony solution have made CTI Expo the leading forum for the datacom/telecom industry." Turnkey Solutions Well Received by Market, Carriers To help new providers of voice services speed rollouts, reduce costs and overcome interoperability issues, e-Telephony combines Hypercom's IP.tel carrier-class voice gateway with the company's proven electronic payment software and e-commerce based virtual pre-paid card server. Hypercom also offers consulting on IP telephony business models, technical planning and integration, gateway infrastructure technologies, e-commerce systems with card payments, billing and other administrative functions. Hypercom Network Systems President Paul Wallner says new carriers offering voice for the first time need full-service partners, not a collection of vendors. "Hypercom's e-Telephony is designed to help ISPs, next-gen telcos and CLECs tackle the realities of the voice business," Wallner said. "We are thrilled that the editors at TMC recognize the importance and power of such an approach. Internet Telephony is already one of the more definitive publications in this space." e-Telephony was also named a Best of Show finalist at the recent N+I event in Las Vegas, and has received positive feedback in the carrier marketplace. The availability of more than one component was instrumental in Hypercom's recent signing of a contract with Sanswire.Net, a Georgia-based ISP. According to the company's president, Mike Molen, "Because Hypercom offers so many integral components of provisioning IP telephony, we'll be able to roll out faster and realize payback much more quickly than we would if we had to integrate gateways and administrative platforms from different companies." Changing the Traditional Supplier Model e-Telephony features: *T -- Hypercom's IP.tel voice-over-IP gateways: Carrier-class devices with an intensive reliability strategy, fault-tolerant parallel processing architecture and second-generation scalability of more than 1,000 T1 or E1 voice connections. IP.tel houses suites of features for calling cards, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), billing and payment. -- Billing solutions: The billing solution integrates an IVR Driver, authentication systems (for pre and post-paid calling cards), and a customer database to track account balances, PIN numbers and billing information for customers who do not use cards. The solution also generates bills, either printed or via the Web. -- Payment: e-Telephony combines everything carriers need to support pre- and post-paid calling cards which have been so instrumental in growing the IP telephony market. In addition, Hypercom is leveraging its dominance in electronic credit/debit card payment to broaden use of IP telephony by adding full-featured support for regular credit and debit cards. -- Online Service Launch and Channel Development: Pioneered by Hypercom's Net Transactions group, the Internet Merchant System (tm) furnishes all of the core facilities needed for a successful Internet business launch. The System's StoreBuilder facility puts ISPs and other next-gen carriers in business with professional, self-designed Websites enabled for e-commerce. Carriers operating their own infrastructures can extend their marketing arms by extending StoreBuilder in the "signing" of resellers. -- Account Management and Customer Self-Service: Another component of the Internet Merchant System, StoreManager adds extensive customer service and account management faculties. Using StoreManager, resellers can check how many minutes have been credited to their accounts, calling card users can purchase and recharge virtual cards, consumers can check status of payments and account balances and more.