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To: Pat Garaffa who wrote (24574)	1/8/1998 5:14:00 PM
From: Stephen Neece	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 41046

Thursday January 8, 4:43 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release Franklin's Tempest Designated Best of Show by Computer Telephony WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 1998--Franklin Telecom (OTC/BB:FTEL - news) Thursday announced that its recently introduced Tempest Data-Voice-Gateway is featured in the January 1998 issue of Computer Telephony magazine. The editors of Computer Telephony selected certain products from among those showcased at the recent CT Demo Fall '97 to be designated ''Best of Show'' in their magazine. The Tempest is the only Data Voice Gateway to be included among the honorees. CT Demo Fall '97 was held in November at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. This expo, which was by invitation only, was designed to demonstrate the latest ''cutting edge'' products which are fueling the burgeoning IP Telephony market. According to Computer Telephony, ''The voice quality sounded good...as good as, or better than nearly all their competitors -- certainly the ones using the same 8KBPS G.729 standard voice codec.'' They went on to say, ''Franklin's box has some neat features we haven't seen on other IP Telephony Gateways...We could turn the volume up or down. And a simple *8 allowed us to make another call on Franklin's IP voice network -- FNet. Price is a further advantage for Franklin's Tempest. At an estimated $19,000 per box, or between $850 and $1,000 per port, they compare favorably with their IP telephony gateway rivals. Use of their proprietary T-1 interface cards (Franklin's been in the T-1 biz a long time) helps, they say.'' Neil Wyenn, Franklin's national accounts manager stated, ''We were so confident in our voice quality, that we actually required attendees and competitors to make calls over the Tempest network before we discussed specifications and pricing. Harry Newton, founder of Computer Telephony Magazine summed up the collective opinion of the Tempest with '...Amazing! No complaints...great quality!' We knew what we had going into the show and now the industry does too!'' The Tempest incorporates Franklin Telecom's own hardware technology, which includes a multiprocessor DSP card for voice compression and encoding. This technology has proved to offer the lowest delay across the IP network, significantly adding to the natural sound of the call. FNet's network will incorporate several unique features. For instance, the user can adjust the delivery volume of the call while the call is in progress by using the telephone keypad. FNet customers using their authorization codes can also ''anchor'' on the network. This allows any number of subsequent calls to be made without having to re-enter a PIN number or authorization code. The primary business of Franklin Telecom, founded in 1981, is the design and manufacturing of communications devices, high-speed LAN, WAN, telco and satellite systems and software. Franklin has an installed base of more than 100,000 nodes worldwide. Franklin's Internet subsidiaries, FNet and Internet Passport, provide services using FTEL products. For the latest up-to-the-minute information, visit the company's Web site: ftel.com . Certain statements in this news release constitute ''forward- looking statements'' within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements, expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.