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Microcap & Penny Stocks : FRANKLIN TELECOM (FTEL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gary R. Owens who wrote (35495)	7/5/1998 1:54:00 PM
From: Ray Burke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41046

"The ball is rolling..." Here are a few more articles about FNET. FNet succeeds on its own "FNet Corp. brings a vertically integrated hardware and services plan to the table in its bid for IP telephony success." WAYNE CARTER "The company is a subsidiary of equipment vendor Franklin Telecom. Franklin founded FNet three years ago as an Internet service provider test bed for its equipment." FNet's service will benefit from the fact that when Franklin began working on an IP telephony platform, it did so from a phone-to-phone perspective rather than a computer-to-computer one. That approach should help ease the transition as IP networks become more prevalent and require more interconnection." "Our stuff is standards-based," Peters says. "Theoretically, we ought to be able to talk to [other vendors' boxes]. Some day that will happen."" (more) internettelephony.com "Franklin Telecom's Tempest IP gateway targets Internet service providers that want to offer long-distance service over the Internet. Because a gateway is required at each end of the call, some smaller ISPs may pick a relatively small area in which to offer service, or they may target city pairs between which long-distance volumes are high, said Diane McCarthy, Franklin's director of marketing." internettelephony.com Many paths to IP telephony JOAN ENGEBRETSON "Through its FTel subsidiary, for instance, Franklin Telecom plans to install gateways in WorldCom points of presence to convert conventional voice calls to IP. FTel will then route calls onto a combination of the public Internet and its own lines. To address situations where the Internet is too congested to support voice calls, traffic will be routed onto a conventional circuit-switched long-distance carrier network." (more) internettelephony.com Ray