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To: STK1 who wrote (1114)	2/24/1998 3:01:00 AM
From: sepku	Respond to of 2349

2/23/98 Internet Wk. (Pg. Unavail. Online) 1998 WL 7271391 Internet Week (c) 1998 Phillips Business Information, Inc. Monday, February 23, 1998 Vol. 4, Issue: 8 Cisco and GRIC Team up in Interoperability Project Companies Want Initiative to Boost Global Deployment of IP Telephony GRIC (formerly AimQuest) and Cisco [CSCO] took steps to shore up their respective IP telephony operations by teaming up to develop a joint settlement interface between GRIC's settlement system, GRICphoneT, and Cisco's IOS software, based on the H.323 multimedia standard, which is likely to become the global IP telephony standard this year. This agreement points toward an emerging industry alliance involving Lucent [LU] and Siemens [SMAWY] as well, which might accelerate the process of achieving the goal of global termination for telephone calls made over Internet. Such news would be a boon for Internet telephony equipment vendors, since their equipment would give small ISPs an opportunity to facilitate international phone calls, the high-ticket item for IP telephony. The alliance would also boost competition for marketshare of the future Internet telephony market, currently dominated by several companies, most notably by IDT Corp. [IDTC], which is in the process of deploying its phone centers internationally. Rapid development of Internet telephony would also be felt by major telcos, which are poised to lose more than $8 billion through 2001 because of their customers using Internet alternatives instead of regular telephone lines, according to a research report from Action Information Services. GRIC and Cisco A letter of intent signed by GRIC and Cisco last December and announced only now reveal that the companies are developing a joint interface that will allow ISPs buying voice/fax cards for Cisco 3600 series routers to terminate calls into the GRIC network. "The value of the GRIC relationship to Cisco is that GRIC has an installed base of customers," says Alistair Woodman, product line manager for Cisco. GRIC has over 240 ISP customers in 75 countries and a combined subscriber base of more than 13 million dial-up users, as well as 20 million corporate users. For Cisco, this agreement comes only a month after the purchase of privately held Lightspeed International Inc. of Sterling, Va., which at the time was billed as an effort to gain a foothold in the emerging Internet telephony market. The future, apparently, is here - the company sees the surge the market made in a few short months. The development went from "tinker toy" to DS3 levels in two years, says Woodman. The Lightspeed solution, when purchased, was targeted at enterprise and service provider customers. The focus has subsequently been broadened to include anybody interested in IP services and cost savings on international calls. The GRIC relationship will allow Cisco better integration of the existing Lightpeed solutions with the installed base of GRIC's phone gateways. GRIC's announcement with Cisco is probably the first in a series. Lucent has been trailing Cisco ever since the company enabled its customers to do IP telephony by adding a voice card to the 3600 router series. In response, Lucent unveiled its Internet telephony server family. PC-based gateways have interfaces for both T1 and E1 lines, as well as for analog telephone lines. "We see it as significant that we are able to team up with the leaders," says GRIC president Hong Chen. "We also signed letters of intent with Lucent and Siemens." GRIC is running trials with Lucent's Internet telephony server, which it plans to deploy within its own network. Other vendors manufacturing this equipment are Ascend [ASND] and Nortel [NT]. There were no announcements of the latter two joining the group at press time. Founded in 1994 and privately held, GRIC provides global Internet roaming, corporate remote access and VPN services on top of IP phone call termination. One of the other companies providing similar services is ITXC, headed by former AT&T [T] head Tom Evslin. (Dr. Hong Chen, GRIC Communications, 408/965-1162, Alistair Woodman, Cisco Systems, 408/526-5896, Francois de Repentigny, Frost & Sullivan IP telephony expert, 650/961-9000, Sim Hall, Action Information Services, 703/847-9805)

To: STK1 who wrote (1114)	2/24/1998 10:18:00 PM
From: BARRY ALLEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2349

Second Opinion - VOCLF 02/25/98 Symbol: VOCLF Name: VOCALTEC COMM LTD Exchange: NMS PRICE ANALYSIS Close 21.00 Open 21.88 High 22.00 Low 20.50 Change -1.00 YrHigh 33.25 YrLow 5.94 Mo Chg (%) 8.4 Resistance N/A Support N/A SELL STOP 18.13 Volatility (%) 5 Position 65 ADXR 15 OPINION C-Rate 0.0 LONG 02/25/98 21.00 VOLUME ANALYSIS Volume 1736 Ave Vol 1065 Mo Chg (%) -2.7 * U/D 1.2 Slope UP Obv BL Pos Obv BL Neg Obv BR * MFI 60 Slope UP UPGRADED TECHNICAL ANALYSIS Alpha 0.54 Beta 1.26 MACD-ST BL MACD-LT BL 50-Day R.S. 1.31 10-Day M.A. UP 106 21-Day M.A. DOWN 106 50-Day M.A. UP 106 200-Day M.A. UP 124 STO(Slow %K) 69 STO(Fast %K) 58 Wilders-RSI 57 OBOS 1 Bollinger Bands 32 RSV 97 POWER RATING 71 SCORE = 0 COMMENT Moving Average Convergence/Devergence (MACD) indicates a BULLISH TREND Chart pattern indicates a WEAK UPWARD TREND Relative Strength is BULLISH Up/Down volume pattern indicates that the stock is under ACCUMULATION The 50 day MOVING AVERAGE is rising which is BULLISH The 200 day MOVING AVERAGE is rising which is BULLISH RECOMMENDATION STOCK IS A STRONG BUY MarketEdge & Second Opinion are neither offers to sell nor solictations of offers to buy any security. See User Agreement for other disclaimers. etrade.stkwtch.com