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To: pat mudge who wrote (14119)	10/31/1999 10:50:00 AM
From: gbh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

The point of this exchange is not patent infringement but the fact a company with a strong position will not be brow-beat into settling if they know they're right. Pat, somewhat naive view. Companies with weak financial postioning, are "brow-beat" every day. I'm not saying NN falls into this category with LU, but this assertion just isn't accurate. You're right that ECI is not at the forefront of DSL development. However, they're ready to ship products based on TI's DMT and they can't until the case is settled. ECI has shipped ADSL product in Europe (and South America, I believe). The biggest contract to date is DT. biz.yahoo.com Thursday September 9, 10:39 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: ECI Telecom Ltd. Deutsche Telekom Announces its Intent to Award New Orders for ECI Telecom's ADSL Broadband Access Solutions ECI Telecom's ADSL-based Hi-FOCuS Equipment to Deliver Broadband Access Solutions to 84,000 Deutsche Telekom Subscribers in the Year 2000 PETAH TIKVA, Israel, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- ECI Telecom Ltd. (Nasdaq: ECIL - news) announced today that it has been chosen by Deutsche Telekom AG to supply its ADSL-based Hi-FOCuS solutions. ECI Telecom's Hi-FOCuS systems will be deployed by Deutsche Telekom to deliver Broadband Internet, Video, and multimedia services to an additional 84,000 subscribers throughout Germany in the year 2000. The new contract follows Deutsche Telekom's successful implementation of its original ADSL program, initiated in September 1998, of which ECI Telecom was awarded a significant portion. Mr. David Rubner, ECI Telecom's President and CEO, said: ``We are extremely proud to have been chosen once again for an additional stage of Deutsche Telekom's broadband access network deployment. With the surging demand for broadband services, ECI Telecom's Hi-FOCuS system presents an optimized solution for mass deployment, focused on reducing the initial and ongoing operational costs involved in the delivery of broadband services.' Hi-FOCuS, incorporating ECI Telecom's innovative FractalLink(TM) architecture, is designed to enable co-existence of different transmission technologies (e.g. ADSL, ADSL lite, SDSL, and VDSL) within a single platform. This ability broadens the variety of services that can be provided through the system. Its ATM to the Subscriber architecture enables it to differentiate service packages by supporting four Quality of Service (QoS) classes. The system additionally features ATM-OAM (Operation, Administration and Maintenance) capabilities, enabling Deutsche Telekom to remotely detect and localize failures on the ATM service level. ECI Telecom has received significant contracts for the commercial deployment of its Hi-FOCuS solutions in Germany, UK, Russia and China and is currently involved in several important field trials taking place worldwide. ECI Telecom Ltd. is a provider of integrated network solutions for digital communications and data transmission systems. The Company designs, develops, manufactures, markets and supports end-to-end digital telecommunications solutions for today's new services and converging networks. The Company's products create bandwidth, maximize revenues for network operators, expand capacity, improve performance and enable new revenue-producing services. In doing so, they enhance the capabilities of existing networks to support voice, data, video and multimedia services. ECI Telecom's equipment supports traffic in more than 500 service networks in over 145 countries. This press release and additional information about the Company are now available on ECI Telecom's site on the World Wide Web: ecitele.com . If you would like to receive future news releases electronically, please forward your email address to eci.enews@inc.ecitele.com . Certain statements contained in this release may contain forward-looking information with respect to plans, projections or future performance of the Company. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, product and market acceptance risks, the impact of competitive pricing, product development, commercialization and technological difficulties and other risks detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

To: pat mudge who wrote (14119)	10/31/1999 3:29:00 PM
From: MangoBoy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18016

I'm having a hard time understanding the "You don't go to trial if you're not sure of your position" rule. LU sues NN (Goliath v. David): LU is being a brow-beating lawyer-driven opportunist; NN's decision to not settle is proof that NN is in the right and will prevail because YDGTTIYNSOYP. ECI sues TXN (David v. Goliath): ECI is being a brow-beating lawyer-driven opportunist; TXN's decision to not settle is proof that TXN is in the right and will prevail because YDGTTIYNSOYP. ALA v. ORCT (Goliath v. David): ALA is being a brow-beating lawyer-driven opportunist? ORCT's decision to not settle and let the matter be resolved in the courts is proof that ORCT is in the right and will prevail because YDGTTIYNSOYP? A hypothetical: TXN sues ORCT (Goliath v. David) over ADSL patents. ORCT elects to not settle and let the matter be resolved in the courts. Would this be proof of ORCT's being in the right and will prevail because YDGTTIYNSOYP? Is TXN being a brow-beating lawyer-driven opportunist? Your comments over the years have always led me to believe you'd back TXN in such a suit but YDGTTIYNSOYP suggests you'd expect ORCT to prevail. ---- Does YDGTTIYNSOYP only apply to defendants but not to plaintiffs?