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To: Dennis R. Duke who wrote (49317)	6/26/1998 3:42:00 PM
From: Kent Rattey	Respond to of 61433

"News Only" They just bought a piece of Fibex Systems. Anyone got the lowdown on this DSL company? Kent

To: Dennis R. Duke who wrote (49317)	6/27/1998 10:33:00 AM
From: Gary Wisdom	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

WSJ news today on Ascend/Gateway/HWP deal Ascend To Unveil Gateway Pdt, Hewlett-Packard Pact Monday By Mark Boslet PALO ALTO, Calif. (Dow Jones)--Ascend Communications Inc. (ASND) will unveil on Monday its Signaling Gateway product line and a development agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co. (HWP). The Signaling Gateway, expected to go into beta testing this month and begin shipping commercially at the end of August, is the company's first wide-area-network gateway, a product designed to offload computer data traffic from congested phone networks. The Alameda, Calif., company expects future versions of the product to help promote network "convergence" by routing data, voice, and fax traffic over data networks that use the IP, or Internet, protocol along with frame relay or ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) switches. The new product line will put Ascend into competition with development efforts at Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), Bay Networks Inc. (BAY) and Northern Telecom Ltd. (NT). Nortel has agreed to buy Bay Networks. Raymond Keniepp, principal analyst at Current Analysis, said Ascend's development agreement with Hewlett-Packard could enable it to be quicker to market. The Signaling Gateway intends to use Hewlett-Packard's Open Call software to link to the SS7 signaling technology in the telecommunications network. Because Open Call is established in the market, field testing the Ascend gateway may be easier, Keniepp said. Ascend hopes to deliver a voice over IP function for Gateway in December and additional voice-data integration features in the first two quarters of next year, said Ted Butch, Ascend's director of product marketing. The gateway is designed for use by telecommunications carriers and Internet service providers.