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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (634)	5/27/1998 10:18:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 3178

Franklin Telecom Ships Initial Order of Tempest DVG's Out of the blue, some promising news from FTEL ------ Franklin Telecom Ships Initial Order of Tempest DVG's to J.M. Best Company; Order Expands Internet Telephony to Midwest WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 1998--Franklin Telecom (OTC:FTEL), a leading provider of telecommunications and Internet telephony equipment, today announced that it has begun shipment on a $250,000 order for Tempest(R) Data Voice Gateway units to J. M. Best Communications, a provider of Internet telephone services via long distance calling cards. This current order includes six beta units which are already operational. Over the next twelve months, the company plans to purchase an additional forty-five units. J.M. Best (www.jmbest.net), based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been involved in beta testing both the hardware and the billing & authorization software for the Tempest System during the last few months. With the deployment of the Tempest System, the company has added the capability for their customers to make toll quality calls over the Internet without incurring traditional long distance company charges. Johnny M. Brown, C.E.O. and president of J.M. Best stated, "Our conclusion is that the Tempest is the best product on the market for providing excellent voice quality, customer support and account management. Franklin Telecom has been outstanding in their support of this product and extremely responsive to our questions and suggestions. I believe we are now positioned to expand our services quickly throughout the Midwest, and throughout the world as we join the FNet network." Frank Peters, Franklin's Chairman & CEO, commented, "We have been working with J.M. Best for many months. We have found them to be savvy, ambitious and demanding--in short, the perfect company to beta test our system because they know what they want the product to do and won't settle for anything less than optimal performance." The Franklin Tempest System allows phone-to-phone service over the Internet or other IP networks using ordinary telephones (no computer required) and without requiring any special hardware or software at either connection. The Tempest facilitates long-distance telephone calls at greatly reduced cost compared with conventional telephone service providers. J. M. Best Communications, www.jmbest.net, is a provider of Internet Telephony services, internet access, web hosting and site design, and custom web software. 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 over 100,000 nodes worldwide. Franklin's Internet subsidiaries, FNet and Internet Passport provide services using FTEL products. Certain statements in this press 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 which 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. CONTACT: Franklin Telecom Diane McCarthy (Company Contact) 805/373-8688 dianemc@ftel.net or Franklin Telecom Helen West (Investor Contact) 805/373-8688 helen@ftel.net or Rourke MS&L Tiffany Hilton (Media Contact) 408/453-9194 thilton@rourkemsl.com 09:44 EDT MAY 27, 1998 Terms of Use

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (634)	5/28/1998 12:14:00 AM
From: SteveG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

<A> Lucent Seen Raising Data Networking, Internet Phone Status By Shawn Young NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Lucent Technologies Inc. (LU) will soon start selling new technology that will help phone companies take advantage of Internet technology and help Internet companies offer phone service, the company said Wednesday. The technology will make it possible for telecommunications companies to offer new top-of-the-line data and voice services while potentially cutting network maintenance and some other costs by as much as 40%, the company said. The new products represent another advance in the Murray Hill, N.J., telecommunications equipment maker's high-profile attack on the data networking market dominated by such companies as Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), Bay Networks Inc. (BAY) and Ascend Communications Inc. (ASND), and also advance Lucent's competition with traditional rivals such as Northern Telecom Ltd. (NT). Lucent has stormed into the data networking field, which it says it will dominate, with a string of high-profile acquisitions. The new products, developed internally, move the battle into Lucent's telephone-network stronghold, analysts said. "It's a frontal assault on Cisco and Ascend, and it's being done from their strong position," said Brendan Hannigan, director of network strategies at Forrester Research, a Cambridge, Mass., consulting firm. "They're moving the battle onto their own turf with their telecommunications expertise." The new products further blur the increasingly fluid line between voice and data networks. Analysts said the products add up to the most comprehensive bag of tricks yet for using Internet technology to offer integrated voice and data services. They include a switch that will soon be tested by MCI Communcations Corp. (MCIC) and a server that will allow a caller to take make lower-cost calls over an Internet-style network without dialing extra numbers. The server could allow an Internet service provider to add phone service fairly simply, said Bill O'Shea, president of data networking systems at Lucent. The service would include amenities such as call-forwarding, 911 access and directory assistance that have not been available from Internet companies, O'Shea said. The server could also appeal to local companies seeking to compete with entrenched carriers. The switch will allow carriers to offer finely tuned grades of service at a range of prices with guarantees to customers that if they pay top dollar for Rolls-Royce service, they will not get stuck in traffic. Being able to differentiate grades of service could allow carriers to increase revenue by concentrating on the grades that are most profitable for them, Lucent said. The products could help older phone companies compete with upstarts such as Qwest Communicatons International Inc. (QWST) and IXC Communications Inc. (IIXC) that can offer low-cost service over brand new high-capacity networks based on Internet technology. "I think these products will be attactive, based on the company's claims for them," said Nikos Theodosopolous, analyst at UBS Securities Inc. Lucent said interest in the products has been extensive and intense. It estimated the size of the total market for such products at $20 billion by 2001.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (634)	5/28/1998 8:37:00 PM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3178

Frank: As a researcher of this sector, its an honor to find such astute masters in decifering this technology. After I read the LU news a few times, I countered my thoughts with a few from Ken Persson who applys all the info on his home page. You will probably find his homesite quite interesting and informative even for somone like yourself. His reply to me was in reference to the news and LU and others was stated like this> Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 10:24:34 +0100 From: Persson Ken computertelephony.org To: "'hi-temp@fnet.net'" <hi-temp@fnet.net> Hi Stephen, Thanks for the News about Lucent. biz.yahoo.com What will this do to companies like VocalTec, FTel/FNet, IDT and others ? Well, Lucent sure will have a great IP-telephony portfolio in 1999 but so will others. I think if you look at Ericsson, 3COM and Cisco others they too will change the way public and private IP-telephony will be handled. In 1999 looking at traditional Telecom operators they will start using IP-telephony in their switches (not with stand-alone gateways but with built in PSTN/H.323 gateways on the backplane). Companies like Nortel (Meridian 1 PBX) and Ericsson (MD110 Consono) will provide IP-telephony on the backplane mid 1999 in their PBX:s. Big NextGen telcos will turn to traditional telecom/datacom suppliers for large scale platforms with management systems that will works for thousands of ports and hundreds of locations. Look what DeltaThree did, they will use the Ericsson platform: ericsson.se USA Global Link partner with 3COM to build their IP-telephony solution. I think you will see less of IPSP/Next Gen Telcos building their infrastructure with standalone gateway products. They will do it more and more with large partners that can deliver platform and management tools for both PSTN and IP. Supporting SS7 will be one of the key factors the industry speaks too little about. Central Management, QOS and all the other stuff is of course also important. About putting up a hot news section, that's a great idea. I've not done it because of the time it will take to manage it. But now then I got CGI-support I will make it happen. I will make it in a way other people also can submit news that will be available right away. Like a moderated newsgroup kind of thing. Cool hey! About the low Lucent price per port $300 (in 1999 I presume). Howard Bubb, CEO Dialogic claimed at the VON conference in Boston that the VON industry will not have full blast until price per port is $250 and that will happen sooner than you think. I don't think anyone believed it would happen so fast as 1999, but the news from Lucent sure gives us hope. Be so sure that Dialogic and NMS will not stand still the next year. Dialogic recently announced that they will support T.38 realtime fax in the DM3 product line. Fax is still the best IP-telephony application to implement and I believe T.38 will make international corporations to start using IP-telephony. Once they start off with fax they will start looking at Voice over IP... Stephen, I really appreciate any promotion my Web-site gets. Earlier this week I got a really nice link from Yahoo yahoo.com that will give me some extra hits. Regards Ken computertelephony.org Any comments on this Frank are most welcome. Temp'