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To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (44200)	6/1/1998 10:26:00 AM
From: j g cordes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58727

EGHT.. check this cool product out.. now you can call home and you can call home! 8x8 Introduces Real-Time Remote Video Surveillance Solution RSM-1500 Allows Users to Monitor Any Location Any Time From Anywhere Over Standard Telephone Lines CHICAGO, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- 8x8, Inc. (Nasdaq: EGHT - news) -- a leading supplier of video conferencing technology and systems -- today introduced its new real-time Remote Surveillance Module, the RSM-1500, at the International Security Conference here. Developed specifically for the security industry, the RSM-1500 allows anyone within reach of a touch-tone telephone to monitor any location anywhere in the world. Because the RSM-1500 uses standard telephone lines to provide full-color motion video in real time, the cost of monitoring a remote site across town or across the country is no more than the cost of a local or long distance telephone call. Due to competitive pressures, many retail businesses today are open seven days a week, 18 (or more) hours a day. For the owners of businesses such as convenience stores, restaurants, bars and grocery stores, long business hours make it nearly impossible for owners to get away from their businesses and still ''mind the store.'' With the RSM-1500 Remote Surveillance Module from 8x8, however, business owners can check in on their shops at any hour of the night or day from wherever they may be. A black box about the size and shape of a video cassette tape, the RSM-1500 connects to a standard telephone line and up to three in-store cameras. Using a second RSM-1500 connected to a TV and telephone line at his home or office, a business owner can dial in and see anything that is in view of the three cameras in real-time, full-color motion video. ''The security industry has been waiting many years for a product like 8x8's surveillance module,'' said Chris McNiffe, vice president of sales and marketing for 8x8, Inc. ''The key to a good security system is stealth and unpredictability. When a business has a remote video surveillance system, people in the store never know when they are being watched. Such systems are amazingly effective deterrents, and the RSM-1500 is the first remote surveillance tool that is both affordable and delivers the video quality required to do the job.'' Nice chart too.. looks like firm support and upside