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To: Stephen B. Temple who wrote (1273)	10/2/1998 3:25:00 PM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Respond to of 3178

Cisco, Hitachi Partner to Hasten Rollout of IP Telephony Products During the next two years, the number of large corporations using the Internet backbone for voice and fax services will almost double. More than 70 percent of large businesses say they plan to use the Internet for voice and fax communications by 2000, up from only about 40 percent in 1999, according to a survey of large corporations by Forrester Research Inc. (www.forrester.com). As a result of this growing demand, manufacturers will have to step up their development efforts for Internet telephony and fax products. With that in mind, Cisco Systems Inc. (www.cisco.com) and Hitachi Semiconductor Inc. (www.hitachi.com) have formed a strategic alliance to speed the creation and deployment of Internet protocol (IP) telephony solutions worldwide. The alliance's goal is to develop and market IP telephony reference platforms and related technologies as part of the Cisco NetWorks Program. The partners hope to leverage Cisco's knowledge of networking and the strength of Hitachi's SuperH RISC processor in consumer electronics application to develop the basis of IP telephony technologies and reference platforms. Under Cisco NetWorks, a technology licensing program, Cisco and Hitachi plan to develop the engines necessary to aid manufacturers of network and Internet appliances in building low-cost, Internet devices that can be used with any IP network. The jointly developed reference platforms will be building blocks that can be used by product designers to quickly and economically integrate IP telephony functions into hardware such as modems, telephones, set-top boxes and fax machines, according to the company. By the first quarter of 1999, the first commercial reference designs will be available to product developers. These reference platforms will be compatible with existing and future SuperH architectures, and conform to future telecom industry standards, Cisco and Hitachi report.