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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: Ignacio Mosqueira who wrote (28512)	4/10/1998 12:08:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33268

Rod you do not have the slightest idea what Lucent thinks about BT. Ignacio, who's guessing here? I have a far greater insight into this situation than I am able to reveal so I'm not going to get into this I know more than you know game. Let's just say trouble looms large. Do you think the extreme depression in stock price is nothing more than a matter-of-fact coincidence?

To: Ignacio Mosqueira who wrote (28512)	4/10/1998 7:12:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33268

Ignacio, you are making a grave mistake here. Corporations will not touch proprietary solutions with a 20 foot telephone pole. They are demanding the open standards which only IP telephony can offer. That's not a guess, that's not an assumption, that's a material fact of extreme importance to those still investing in proprietary efforts such as BT. There is no way the product is going to make it after all this time because the stream of interest in open telephony standards has turned into a raging flood.

To: Ignacio Mosqueira who wrote (28512)	4/10/1998 11:29:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33268

Ignacio, some have rather ignorantly suggested that the Internet was some how "set up" and that it was "designed" for some specific purpose which precludes its use for voice communications. I cannot begin to express the ignorance embodied in that statement but let me point out the rather obvious fact that hundreds of thousands, soon to be millions, of people have simultaneous access to real-time audio, video and 3D animation as we speak. The so-called Internet is nothing more than agreed upon set of communications protocols which allow networks of every conceivable design with every conceivable physical infrastructure to communicate. It's a network of networks, that's why they call it the INTER-NET. When they hit the switch on these large scale, space-based mobile communications networks, they too will become part of the Internet. There are no inherent limitations (read: none, not one) which will or ever could preclude the wide spread adoption of audio and video communication between networks (read: over the Internet) in realtime. What precludes that for most are the copper telephone lines leading into your home or business. The very real problem of packet latency, which can and does lead to choppy audio, can be eliminated using virtual links constructed with low-latency communications protocols. The current suite of Internet protocols is by no means fixed and to suggest otherwise is only a convenient fabrication for those who do not want to hear that VOIP is going to be successful.

To: Ignacio Mosqueira who wrote (28512)	4/10/1998 11:45:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33268

The most compelling reason for switching to Internet-based telephony is not the cost of long distance calls, that's only an artifact. The driving force behind this is the elimination of proprietary hardware and the maintenance nightmare which these elaborate PBX systems now represent. Secondarily, the rapid adoption of standards-based systems is driving the integration of all forms of communication: voice, email, fax, video, animation. Finally, the walls of your building don't have any meaning in the virtual telephone network. You can add additional offices on or off the main campus and poof magic, you're connected. Data Race might as well be selling dinosaur repellent. The boat left the dock with out them yet there are still peole selling tickets.