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To: John Rieman who wrote (35402)	8/23/1998 9:38:00 AM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

8X8's video phone........................ multichannel.com Broadband Week for August 24, 1998: 8x8 Leapfrogs IP Phone, Adds Video By LESLIE ELLIS Never mind the fact that equipment for making Internet-protocol phone calls over cable is embryonic, at best. A Santa Clara, Calif.-based vendor already has a new twist: video IP telephony. The company, 8x8 Inc. -- which already owns a 90 percent silicon-component share of the dial-up videoconferencing-equipment market -- said last week that it will issue a family of video-IP-telephony products, ranging in price from $300 to $600, by the first quarter of next year. Several cable operators said last week that they're familiar with 8x8's work, and that they view it as an encouraging development that still needs some work, but that definitely fits well into the coming broadband-IP-service mix. Dubbed "ViaIP," mirroring its retail "ViaTV" brand for dial-up videophones, 8x8's gear is already undergoing tests at TCI.NET, the high-speed-data arm of Tele-Communications Inc. The equipment, which currently works over cable modems manufactured by Com21 Inc., was used in a briefing two weeks ago by TCI executives to AT&T Corp. chairman and CEO Mike Armstrong and his entourage, sources close to the MSO said.