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To: Atin who wrote (86)	11/4/1997 9:06:00 AM
From: Ray Burke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

Atin, I appreciate your response, although you may be missing my point. Let me try it this way.Forget the temporary free calls those are for DEMO purposes. Forget ftel and tempest ( for a minute). ....................................... We have a hypothetical company, lets say citicorp with 3000 branches in 98 countries. OK.They use a long distance company like ATT or someone else, it dont matter who! They pay for LD calls. ................... They also have a corporate data net, lets just say WCOM (dont know dont care) They use this data net for e-mail, fax, and wire transfers. They are paying for internet access of some sort for this "data net" It is there 24 hrs a day. It may be an open access or it may be private,it doesnt matter to me. If they hooked up a Digital Voice Server (it doesn't matter who makes it, for this example) then THEY COULD ROUTE PHONE CALLS THROUGH THIS NET, at a lower cost than routing them through their LONG DISTANCE CARRIER) It seems this would be an advantage, a way for a company to save a million $$ or so a month. ...................... It is an added plus that the maker of the DVG could also set up a PUBLIC net and charge by the minute......but that would be a TOTALY DIFFERENT EXAMPLE. Ray