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To: pat mudge who wrote (7461)	11/2/1997 1:26:00 PM
From: g.w. barnard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21342

pat, let me throw another one out there. remember sourcecom with banc 6000 and 9000 products. well as we all know anet took em in bankrupcy. now listen to what the ceo has stated about the acquition. "SourceCom has developed two high performance platforms, the Banc 6000 and the Banc 9000, to address the broadband access market," stated Mr. Andre de Fusco, Vice President of Business Development at ACT Networks. AThe Banc 6000 is a customer-premise, stand-alone high capacity IP-router already in production and the Banc 9000 is a carrier-class high capacity rack-mount IP-router still in the development phase. We believe that with some engineering effort, the Banc 6000 can be converted into an enterprise-level frame relay switch capable of supporting higher than 50,000 packet per second throughput. We also believe that by incorporating ACT's call control/fast packet voice technology and NetSpeak's IP/WAN telephony applications into the NEBS-compliant Banc 9000, we will be able to offer service providers worldwide a unique telephony gateway server, capable of supporting many hundreds of voice connections between the traditional PSTN and the emerging fast packet services such as Internet, frame relay and ATM." "We believe that the large deployment of PCs in homes and offices and the availability of high quality web phones will increasingly drive the public voice services away from the existing PSTN to the growing fast packet networks, added Mr. Shum. AThis will create rapid demand for a system-level telephony gateway server solution. We also believe that to be successful, this type of product must possess three key attributes: first, voice comprehension, packetization and call control capabalitites; second, a fast packet telephony application support system and an installed base of web phones; third, a highly scaleable and carrier-class platform. ACT has the core competency in voice, and is working with NetSpeak Corporation, a leading provider of real-time IP telephony applications and web-phone client software, to accomplish the second requirement. We believe that the Banc 9000 is the right platform for this application." looks like a good fit to me.