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To: lazarre who wrote (800)	12/23/1999 11:17:00 AM
From: Rob Preuss	Respond to of 1762

Ensemble Communications Secures $25 Million for Commercial Launch of Its Fiberless Broadband Wireless System Digital Microwave Corporation, Intel and Korea Telecom Bank Join Existing Investors In Company's Third Financing Round SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 22, 1999-- Ensemble Communications Inc., a supplier of next-generation broadband wireless access (BWA) equipment, today announced the closing of a $25 million round of venture financing and the addition of three new investors. Proceeds from the round will be used to increase staff, facilities and marketing efforts toward the commercial launch of Ensemble's innovative Fiberless(TM) system in the second quarter of 2000. New investors in the company's third round of financing include Digital Microwave Corporation, (Nasdaq: DMIC) a global supplier of microwave radio equipment, which led the round; Intel Corporation; and Korea Telecom Bank Venture Capital, whose leading investors include Samsung Corporation and Korea Telecom. All existing Ensemble investors -- Enterprise Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures, Crescendo Ventures and ADC Telecommunications -- also contributed additional capital. "Given the participation of both new investors and existing ones, this financing is a further step in helping to propel the company forward," said Tom Jones, chairman of the board of Ensemble. "The company is now fulfilling its vision of producing a system especially designed for packet networks that also supports legacy telco applications cost effectively." Rami Hadar, chief executive officer of Ensemble, added, "With the help of these funds and our ongoing field trials, we're now capable of launching and supporting widespread deployments of our Fiberless product to give carriers the competitive edge they seek in providing broadband services to users." Currently in trials with selected service provider customers, the Fiberless system is fueled by Ensemble's patented Adaptix(TM) technology consisting of Adaptive TDD, Adaptive TDMA and Adaptive Modulation. With these innovations, Fiberless delivers some of the most advanced point-to- multipoint features in the industry in a single, flexible platform. Not limited by legacy approaches or technologies, the Fiberless system--consisting of the Fiberless 16000 Base Station, Fiberless 300 Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) and the Fiberless Management System (FMS) -- has been engineered from the ground up to help solve the unique challenges of the BWA market. A global platform, Fiberless is designed to serve BWA carriers with frequency licenses ranging from 10 to 43.5 GHz, and to seamlessly interconnect with IP, ATM, and TDM backhaul architectures. Ensemble Communications, the Fiberless(TM) Access company, designs, manufactures and markets point-to-multipoint wireless systems for Local Multipoint Distribution Services (LMDS) and other BWA markets worldwide. Headquartered in San Diego, with an additional R&D facility in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company is led by industry veterans with proven successes designing and deploying wireless, telecom and datacom systems. Ensemble offers its market-leading products through OEM partners and directly to BWA carriers worldwide. Incorporating its Adaptix(TM) technology, the Ensemble Fiberless system is designed to contain the most advanced features in the BWA market, capable of extending fiber cost effectively to deliver broadband services including both traditional telecom services and market-leading, differentiated offerings such as instantaneous asymmetry and bandwidth-on-demand services, Virtual Private Networks and Voice over IP. For more information about Ensemble and the Fiberless system, please visit the company's Web site at www.ensemblecom.com. Note to Editors: Ensemble Communications, Adaptix and Fiberless are trademarks of Ensemble Communications Inc. Contact: Ensemble Communications Carlton O'Neal, 858/404-6542 carlton@ensemblecom.com or Edelman Worldwide, Dallas Dan Guitteau, 214/443-7589 dan_guitteau@edelman.com

To: lazarre who wrote (800)	12/24/1999 12:26:00 PM
From: Rob Preuss	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1762

Interview dated 12/23/99 with several money managers. moneycentral.msn.com Lee Kopp, manager of the Kopp Emerging Growth Fund (KOPPX), presents DMIC as one of his top two pick for the millennium saying: "It's in the wireless area and could be a sterling performer in calendar year 2000." Later in the article, Kopp says (about the overall market): "I think we'll have an exciting first quarter on the upside, probably some pullback shortly thereafter and, on balance, a good year overall." Kopp has followed DMIC and been one of its leading investors for many years. I first learned about DMIC (many years ago) through an article in Business Week which said how well his fund was doing... the article listed many stocks Kopp held, all of which were up (at the time of the article) except DMIC. After doing some further research, I decided that DMIC would also go up and bought some... sure enough, DMIC was my first big gainer and I managed to trade it for a nice profit twice. I took the money from those trades and bought my Mom a house near the beach! Now its a few years later... I've built a much larger position in DMIC... and the money I make on this round may well enable me to retire.