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Digitcom Gets Initial German OK for Internet Telephone Network
SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Digitcom Corporation
(OTC Bulletin Board: DGIV - news) announced preliminary approval
by Germany's Brandenburg government of an initial $25 Million
(U.S.) package of financing to establish an Internet Protocol
telephony network in that country to be headquartered in Potsdam.
The announcement was made upon confirmation from the company's
consulting firm Lietzmann & Partner of Potsdam, Germany, which
represents Digitcom in its dealings with the Federal and various
State governments of Germany. Lietzmann and Partner is one of a
very few consulting firms authorized by the Berlin and Brandenburg
governments to help identify and arrange financing for new
businesses that serve Germany's economic development objectives
for the new federal States that came with unification.
''This first Voice over IP central office facility will achieve
the government's policy aims of creating employment in a
cutting-edge industry in Potsdam, and potentially in many areas of
Germany,'' said Siegfried Lietzmann, Managing Director of
Lietzmann & Partner. The funding being made available will be in
the form of grants by the government for fixed asset investment,
and as low interest loans, according to Lietzmann.
''We're optimistic about this opportunity to build an IP telephony
network in Germany,'' said Jimmy Chin, Digitcom CEO. ''Potsdam's
close proximity to Berlin makes it an ideal starting point for
serving Germany with this groundbreaking communications
technology.''
Digitcom To Establish Telecoms Joint Venture in the
United Arab Emirates
SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Digitcom Corporation
(OTC Bulletin Board:
DGIV - news) announced the signing of a letter of intent with the
White Knight Group (WKG) of
Abu Dhabi committing the parties to the establishment of a joint
venture company to be headquarted
in the United Arab Emirates. The joint venture company will work
to extend the Digitcom Network
in the Middle East using the company's Internet Protocol voice and
data communications products
along with traditional long distance services.
''Digitcom-UAE'' will be the exclusive representative for
Digitcom's IP- voice and long distance
service to the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Brazil
and Argentina.
I EXPECT TO HEAR MORE FROM THIS ALLIANCE and these countries as well as
others in the reperesented regions as DGIV's business plans become clear possibly in the
not too distant future.
WKG will make suitable facilities available for Digitcom to open
corporate offices in Abu Dhabi in
anticipation of the registration of the United Arab Emirates
company.
June 08, 1998, TechWeb News Carrier Flash Point -- Defining
IP-PSTN Links
By Jeff Caruso
"We want to make the phone the most ubiquitous IP device
in the world," AT&T CEO Michael Armstrong recently said.
Achieving that goal-and thereby joining the Internet to the public
switched
telephone network (PSTN)-is tantamount to overhauling the
Internet, and the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is working hard to make
that happen.
This week, the IETF's Differentiated Services (Diffserv) working
group will hold
an interim meeting aimed at accelerating specification and
framework documents
so they can be submitted for consideration as requests for comment
(RFCs) next
month.
Differentiated services would let traffic be grouped into
different classes of
service. If users are willing to pay more, their traffic could
potentially get
through the Internet faster. This capability would first be
applied to data, but
real-time traffic could follow.
The IP Telephony (Iptel) working group, meanwhile, is readying its
first draft
document on service frameworks, to be submitted as an RFC next
month. Iptel
hopes to have a draft document defining voice-call-processing
syntax ready by
August.
There are several other working groups-some focused on points of
interaction
between the Internet and the circuit-switched telephone network;
others focused
on making the Internet more robust for real-time communications
(see chart).
Although there is no single overarching framework, these efforts
pro-mise to
redefine the Internet.
"The problem is making the Internet work for voice and business
applications,
and we're treating parts of the problem separately," said Fred
Baker, a Cisco
fellow and co-author of several draft documents in this area.
Not all the standards work that emerges will necessarily be useful
for IT
managers, but other standards will, said Tom Nolle, president of
CIMI Corp., a
consultancy. "Technical people are bad judges of market
conditions," he said. In
the end, the market will decide what is useful and what is not.
Carriers such as AT&T and MCI are watching the IETF activities
closely, and
plan to integrate the useful standards into their emerging
communications
platforms as soon as they solidify.
AT&T, in particular, has been touting its advanced network
services platform,
formerly code-named GeoPlex, as a way to offer services in both
the voice and
data realms. The software, running on central office equipment, is
flexible
enough that new standards can be integrated easily, said George
Vanecek, chief
scientist at AT&T Labs.
Standards like Diffserv could be integrated into the platform or
into services that
run on top of it, he said. Unified messaging-that is, making voice
messages, faxes
and E-mail messages available in one place-is viable with the
software.
But even with advances in standards, carriers will be reluctant to
abandon
circuit-switching equipment. "Right now, jumping off the phone
network is like
leaving a civilized society and going into a no-man's land,"
Vanecek said.
AT&T's Armstrong said that "you can do most of what you want to do
on the
Internet from a phone," such as check E-mail and perform simple
Web browsing.
Before that can happen, though, the gateways between the two
networks need to
be standardized and made scalable, said Rick Wilder, senior
manager of Internet
technology at MCI.
Service providers need to make sure their own infrastructures are
ready, he said.
Routers must have the right queuing algorithms to give priority to
real-time
traffic, and voice traffic coming from the Internet has to be
presented to voice
switches at precisely the amount of bandwidth the switches expect.
Service providers are keen on using standards, and Diffserv was
launched in part
to prevent Cisco's proprietary committed access rate (CAR) from
becoming a de
facto standard, said Eric Crawley, consulting engineer at Argon
Networks. Both
CAR and Diffserv use the type-of-service bits in the IP header to
specify which
packets deserve better quality of service.
Although Resource Reservation Protocol once showed promise for
requesting and
getting quality of service, service providers balked because it's
geared toward
individual flows, and therefore doesn't scale, Crawley said.
Copyright r 1998 CMP Media Inc.
June 6, 1998
U.S. Gives Up Last Vestige of Control Over
Basic Internet Structure
By AMY HARMON
The Clinton administration renounced the last vestige of control
by the U.S. government over the Internet's basic structure on
Friday, acknowledging that the computer network had grown
too big, too global and too commercial to be overseen by any one
nation. {EDITED }
PACKET VOICE COMING ON STRONG ALL
OVER INDUSTRY
Jun 9, 1998 (VOICE TECHNOLOGY & SERVICES
NEWS, Vol. 17, No. 12) --
Vendors, service providers, and their customers are
taking
voice-over-packet technology seriously.
Vendors have recently shown their latest
voice-over-frame relay
(VoFR) access devices, while placing a greater
emphasis on the emerging
voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP).
It could be considered odd that voice-over-packet is
an issue at all.
We've been told, after all, that ATM is the perfect
networking protocol
for the transmission of traditional voice services
over data networks.
"You will begin seeing a dramatic expansion of
Internet telephony
services globally," says Kim Malone, executive vice
president of Delta
Three.
Also internationally, where the tariff savings are much greater, many years
could pass before that advantage disappears -if it ever does. {edited for brevity}
IP Telephony Market Set To Soar - F&S Report
June 15, 1998: 2:23 p.m. ET
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.
(NB) -- By Sylvia Dennis, Newsbytes.
A report out today from Frost &
Sullivan (F&) suggests that the US
voice telecommunications carriers'
apparent complacency in the face of
IP (Internet Protocol) telephony
services may be misplaced.
[Image]F&S' latest report from its
ongoing "World Markets for IP
Telephony Equipment and Services"
program, suggests that the recent
announcements of services from the
likes of Bell Atlantic and Sprint
"hint at the end of the pure voice
network paradigm."
[The information technology
(IT) research firm notes that
service providers in the US, and
eventually throughout the world, are
furiously gearing up for voice and
data convergence on their networks.
The successful service providers, it
says, will be those with
comprehensive interconnection
partnerships.{{{ EDITED}}}
F&S' Web site is at
frost.com .
Net Telephony Threat Grows (Reuters)
12:45pm 16.Jun.98.PDT
LONDON -- Making telephone calls over the
Internet is getting cheaper and easier, and will
soon provide profit-threatening competition to
established big operators.
That's the conclusion of a report released today by Analysys, a
Cambridge-based telecommunications strategy consultant, which
estimates that Internet telephony traffic will
overtake fixed network traffic by 2000. Three years later, it is
expected to account for 36 percent of all international calls.
THE CLOCK IS TICKING
Big operators like AT&T, Deutsche Telekom AG,
British Telecommunications Plc., and France
Telecom SA are not standing idly by as their
traditional markets are attacked.
The first reaction of big operators in the United
States to upstart Internet telephone providers was to seek to ban
them. The US Federal
Communications Commission wouldn't go along
with that, so they are gearing up the technology to fire back when
the time is right, said Philip
Lakelin, a co-author of the report. {{{EDITED}}}
2nd NEWSLETTER
DGIV NEWSLETTER
Hello,
And welcome to another of Digitcom's "every once in a while"
information
updates. In this issue you'll find:
- A Note from the Chairman - Jimmy Chin summarizes the company's
progress
- Lighting Up the Network - The Digitcom Network to establish POPs
in
5 PacRim Countries
- A New Technology Alliance - Natural MicroSystems joins Digitcom
in
Network rollout
- Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch... - New, powerful system positions
the
company's administration for rapid growth.
**************************************
== A Message from Jimmy Chin, CEO ==
Since our last "Investor News" letter, Digitcom has made progress
on
many fronts - including a complete makeover of the Company's
Website.
Most of this progress has been "incremental", meaning that
agreements
arrived at and already announced have moved forward on their own
"day-to-day" schedule. But there are a couple of noteworthy
developments to watch for in the coming weeks.
First, is our scheduled implementation of the Digitcom Network in
key
Pacific Rim markets. More detail can be found in the story below,
but
here I'd like to acknowledge the contribution of David Wong and
Digitcom's acquisition of J & D International in smoothing the
way. Not
only has their friendships and business associations with
individuals in
these countries helped, but Mr. Wong's long association with
Natural
MicroSystems' development program and their NT VoIP platform has
brought
us closer to a potentially valuable technology partner.
Then, our continued "incremental" progress in other areas should
result
in positive developments. Digitcom's distinction of being one of a
very
few ISP license-holders in Indonesia has brought us into close
contact
with energetic telecom services companies in that country. Our
DLD/TLA
office in Russia is working hard to finalize arrangements for
Digitcom
Network installations to follow our PacRim points-of-presence.
While it
is too early to make any definitive announcements, we're
encouraged by
the steps taken in these countries over the past few weeks.
And, of course, my thanks and congratulations to Dee Levang and
Mark
Friedlander for designing and implementing an exciting new Website
for
the Company. Working under the guidance of Roger Templeton, these
two
have excelled by serving up an animated Site that reflects the
cutting-edge uses of the Internet and IP that Digitcom represents.
Check it out at <http://www.digitcom.com>.
And, watch for new developments to be posted there in the coming
weeks!
- Jimmy Chin, CEO
________________________________________
== Lighting Up the Network ==
Digitcom announced today the scheduled installation of our
"IntraVoice
CO" gateway points-of-presence in five Pacific Rim countries.
These
network nodes will come online along with our Los Angeles
termination
point from late August through the month of September.
These scheduled installations will be fully tested using a 56Kbps
switch-to-switch data line provided by Commsource International,
Los
Angeles, with our commercial service launch to follow immediately
upon
completion of testing on a dedicated T1 circuit. Each country will
have
the capability to be served by "Intranet" leased lines of up to
1.5Mbps
of bandwidth of voice using Digitcom's compression through digital
fiber ocean cables. The U.S. termination gateway will be on a Northern
Telecom DSM-250 phone switch.
The first cities to be served on the Digitcom Network will be
Seoul
Korea, Tokyo Japan, Taipei Taiwan, Jakarta Indonesia, and Sydney
Australia.
The Company plans to target marketing to wholesalers, corporate
customers, and expatriate communities looking for quality long
distance
voice communications at a much lower cost than is currently
available.
Direct marketers will retail Digitcom long distance with pre-paid
and
debit calling cards.
________________________________________
== Digitcom Selects Natural MicroSystems ==8/8/98
Digitcom's first rollout of VoIP points-of-presence will make use
of
Natural MicroSystems (NMSS) Fusion(TM) IP voice technology.
Fusion was chosen for its high density E1 and T1 interface built
on an
NT server platform. Digitcom's NT-flavored "IntraVoice CO(TM)"
developed by our own David Wong has a long (in Internet years)
association with Natural MicroSystems' development environment.
The Fusion platform is the industry's most scalable,
highest-performance
PC development platform for standards-based Internet Protocol (IP)
telephony gateways. Their system architecture allows for IP-phone
gateways that can grow from 8 ports to multiple T1s/E1s with no
increase
in latency or decrease in performance. This means that from the
smallest 4-simultaneous-conversation configuration, Fusion's
scalable
architecture can expand to the highest port capacity gateway
available
today. Full use of a T1 connection will accommodate 192 voice
links and
even more fax transmissions. Handling thousands of calls
simultaneously
is possible with a full build-out of this Natural MicroSystems
system
technology.
Fusion is fully compliant with both the International
Telecommunications
Union's (ITU's) H.323 specification and the International
Multimedia
Telecommunications Consortium's (IMTC's) Voice over IP (VoIP)
Implementation Agreement.
As Mr. Chin said in his release announcing the choice of the
Fusion
platform, "We're convinced that Natural MicroSystems will be a
valuable
technology partner in the development of Digitcom's advanced
value-added
technologies."
________________________________________
== Oracle Powers New Accounting System ==
The Company has recently acquired a powerful new tool for its
business
administration and for future network services development. For
the
past several weeks our network administration and accounting
personnel
have been implementing a very robust accounting system from
Synergistic
Computer Solutions that makes use of Oracle's latest database
suite.
The whole is run on a Sun Solaris server with a Windows NT
application
server "in attendance".
Weeks of installation, testing, configuration and training have
preceded
our accounting staff's efforts to consolidate past and current
financial
data on the new system. The process has been as smooth as one
could
expect with such a many-faceted and challenging task. No
significant
delays in our anticipated SEC filing have been encountered, nor
are
foreseen, as a result of this conversion.
The Synergistic NDS package, coupled with Oracle's Developer 2000
tools,
provides the Company with a system poised to grow rapidly
alongside
Digitcom's international operations.
*********************************
The Small Print:
This release of "Digitcom Investor News" includes "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities
Act of
1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange
Act of
1934, as amended. All statements other than statements of
historical
fact included in this release, including without limitation,
Digitcom's
business strategy, plans and objectives, are forward-looking
statements. Although Digitcom believes that the expectations
reflected
in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no
assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Factors
that
could cause actual results to differ materially from Digitcom's
expectations include, without limitation, Digitcom's ability to
negotiate final terms of the transactions described on favorable
terms,
if at all, and general economic and competitive factors.
I certainly hope this gives everyone looking at DGIV a birds eye view of where we have
come from and where we are headed with state of the art accounting, fibre optic networks
including satellite uplinks major partners and major country contracts I look forward to
what DGIV has instore for all of Us, the Longs and the shorts <VBG>
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