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Technology Stocks : Voice-on-the-net (VON), VoIP, Internet (IP) Telephony -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (506)	5/8/1998 12:50:00 AM
From: SteveG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

Hi Frank- Just got your email as I was getting ready to post this to you. Send me your address and I have some recent telecom/VoIP research reports that I'll send you. In the meantime, some activity from a friend's company (that has been pushing VoIP). These NYTimes articles require an easy, FREE registration: Top AT&T Executive Quits to Join Competitor search.nytimes.com And more USAGL in the NYTimes: search.nytimes.com search.nytimes.com search.nytimes.com PS. You may not hear from me much, but I TRY to keep up with you, Dr. "Balzac" Coluccio, and your "La Comedie Telephone" <g> Steve

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (506)	5/8/1998 7:53:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3178

Internet Telephony Takes Center Stage -- ISPs, Small Businesses Stand To Benefit From Recent Advances May 8, 1998 COMPUTER RESELLER NEWS via NewsEdge Corporation : Hackensack, N.J. -- A revolution in telephony communications is afoot thanks to the developments in voice-over-IP technology expected to benefit small- and medium-size businesses. With a desktop PC, small companies will soon be able to place telephone calls to recipients continents away, industry executives and analysts said. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) stand to benefit as they gain the ability to compete with long-distance telephone carriers. This represents an opportunity for emerging long-distance carriers that are looking to offer competitive prices, said a spokesperson for IDT Corp., an international telecommunications provider, based here. IDT offers four types of Internet telephony products including Net2Phone, a software application that allows the user to place domestic and international phone calls from a PC to any telephone in the world. Calls initiated from a PC are then routed over the Internet to Net2Phone switches, which relay the calls to their respective destinations, said the spokesperson. Net2Phone does not require the purchase of a server at the phone location. IDT is talking to computer manufacturers to place its Internet telephone applications on board multimedia desktop PCs, said the spokesperson. Executives at San Bruno, Calif.-based Aplio Inc. see ISPs as the ones that will benefit most from voice-over-Internet technologies. Similar in size to an answering machine, the company's Aplio/Phone is designed to allow users to place a call over the Internet without a PC. One party makes the initial call and tells the receiving party to press the appropriate buttons on the device to prepare for an incoming Internet call, said Aplio President Olivier Zitoun. After both parties hang up, the phones ring on each end and the conversation resumes with the voices being carried over the Internet. Through a program Aplio plans to launch in May, the company will offer its authorized resellers complete marketing kits. Resellers will also have immediate access to new Aplio products, said Zitoun. Aplio's goal is to authorize about 500 resellers in the United States by the end of September. InnoMedia Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., is also working on advancing the Internet telephony industry. Its product, the Infogate PC Card, is designed to allow users to place calls to any telephone using a PC, said Jay Blazensky, director of marketing at InnoMedia. The Infogate PC Card installs into a server and can support up to four phone lines simultaneously, Blazensky said. A local phone call is placed to the office where the Infogate PC Card is located, and the caller is asked for a pin number. Once the number is verified, the Infogate PC Card looks up the IP address within its database. It then sends the message out over the Internet to an Infogate PC Card at the other end of the line and routes the call via the Internet or intranet to the appropriate extension at the remote office, said Blazensky. Due to technologies such as these, industry analysts predict a boom in voice-over-IP in coming years. "In the next two to three years, growth [in Internet telephony] will be spurred by international calling," said Bruce Kasrel, senior analyst at the Forrester Group, Cambridge, Mass. <<COMPUTER RESELLER NEWS -- 05-04-98, p. PG90>> [Copyright 1998, CMP Publications]