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Technology Stocks : Data Race (NASDAQ: RACE) NEWS! 2 voice/data/fax: ONE LINE! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kashish King who wrote (25636)	11/15/1997 2:42:00 PM
From: Marshall	Respond to of 33268

Yes, time is of the essence and you should know better than anyone that many firms have spent almost as many years working with voice over IP and they consistently come to the same conclusion - that until a major overhaul of the router-based infrastructure of the internet takes place the quality of RT duplex voice transmission over it is not going to be acceptable by everyone to conduct business with. I'll agree, it will be big in the consumer markets and for non-time-sensitive communications but this still leaves a fair part of the business world in the cold. There is an increasing need for security given the adeptness of those "on the other side" and the totally open connectivity of the internet makes it a poor choice for the transmission of any sensitive matter as anything more than the occasional bursts involved in credit card transactions. Most any encryption scheme can be taken apart if given enough of the traffic to play with. While I'll admit the public networks aren't infallable they are inherently more secure by design. CDs are by no means compressed speech but true A/D - D/A conversion and certainly aren't an interactive duplex medium. CD players are also nice, smooth, dedicated connections to the amplifier much like the dedicated connection a remote worker has with his office RAS. In conclusion you're right - ViP is going to be a major field filled with many players but it leaves a hole that Data Race's technology fills and it looks like they're the only solution to fill it at present. I'd sure hate to see the likes of Inacom's 51 regional offices and the 1,600 members of their dealer network waste all this time & money, not to mention Data General and the others we're aware of so far that are committing resources to the product. Sorry for the late reply but it (honestly) took me over two hours to get into SI this morning. Some sites were working fine, others only returned a "Host contacted, waiting for reply" message. I'm sure glad I didn't plan to finish the Hinkley contract before I went to the game. BTW, I was addressing the issue of: >>>"Why do we need proprietary systems if they get There from Here with improvements to IP? BTW, that's not a rhetorical question."

To: Kashish King who wrote (25636)	11/16/1997 6:42:00 AM
From: Hiram Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33268

Rod, I have seen comments by people using Netspeak's and Vocaltec's products,and they are not impressed at all. In fact the people in SI stated that earlier versions were better. Maybe due to the fact that the internet traffic has grown exponentially? Well Japan and Australia are going ahead with IP telephony. I have talked with people in Australia who work alongside Telstra. THey are not impressed either. In fact they think Telstra has way too much downtime,and often loses regular packets,never mind voice. And it is a very expensive service. No one there seems to think Teltstra can pull off IP telephony. Will VOIP becomes a success? I think so,but is it there yet,no way! Hiram