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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: Don Hood who wrote (28898)	6/3/1998 9:51:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 33268

In a nutshell, Sprint is upgrading its backbone capacity and terminal equipment to handle new simultaneous voice, video and Internet data protocols over a single line. Obviously you'll need a new modem but these will become industry standard commodities, not proprietary equipment. All of the technology is based on standards, it's just a matter of folks getting off their duff and deploying, as Sprint is claiming they are doing.

To: Don Hood who wrote (28898)	6/4/1998 12:07:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33268

If you can't communicate over copper quickly enough you improve the protocols before you replace the copper wiring. The Internet is not static, it's simply a collection of networks of which agree to use a standard set of communications protocols. The protocols aren't static either, they evolve over time. Since the original protocols were not designed to handle time-sensitive communications they added a new set of enhanced protocols which can handle voice, video or incoming noise from Horsehead Nebula, it doesn't matter, it's all just data. Using these cheezy simultaneous voice/data modems which have been kicking around for years will allow you to talk to somebody on the other end who has precisely the same equipment. All the modem manufacturers make these types of modems and Data Race simply threw in a PBX card interface and some software to create a wholly proprietary system. We can only guess at the reliability and they did recent allude to the need to improve the voice coding and decoding. So while RACE tried to adapted an existing voice/data solution to a corporate market the industry moved ahead with standards which would integrate voice, video and data through the dial-up LANs, VPNs and the Internet. What can you do with Be There! that you can't do without installing a proprietary equipment on both ends? Not a darn thing! What they claim is some degree of voice/data simultaneity, so what? Get a mobile phone and be done with it. We're not talking about people who sit in front of their PC all day, those people use ISDN if they are off-site. Even if they did, the market RACE addressed has no time for cheezy gimicks; they can e-mail, fax, voice-mail and talk in real-time using standard equipment they can buy at any department store. 207.201.151.179 The Data Race Recipe for Disaster 1. Take commodity voice/data modem technology. 2. Add commodity PBX interface. 3. Claim breakthrough. 4. Find vendor. 5. Sell stuff. NOT! I guess 4 out of 5 ain't bad but that last one is a doozy for shareholders.