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To: Matt Quigley who wrote (6685)	6/19/1998 10:39:00 AM
From: The Phoenix	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6980

The Micom product - which I am very familiar with - used a proprietary "metasymbol" technology which they marketed as Micro-band ATM. The only thing it had that was similar to ATM was that the frames were fixed length....that's it! Also the compression technology was ATC (Adaptive Transform Coding)...today the compression standards are G.728, G.729, G.711, H.323. The Micom technology was nothing like what it is in today's packet and cell networks. To be honest Micom and Cisco launched VoIP products right around the same time. Of course Cisco - through StrataCom - had the first VoATM. So, I'd say NT (through Micom) really doesn't have a lead here. In fact I'd give the advantage to Cisco since they are very focused on this integration - they're delivering all their products with voice now...have you notice?. I should also point out that Cisco - again through Stratacom hired away Micom's best voice engineers years ago.....before the NT acquisition. Gary