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To: djane who wrote (54118)	9/13/1998 3:51:00 PM
From: Tim Luke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

you can add up all the T/A you want, that doesn't mean LU will buy asnd. i'm not saying anything bad about asnd as a company all i'm trying to do is find out who is buying who so i can capitalize on the deal....plain and simple.....i'm sorry, but great T/A on asnd doesn't pay my bills..........one more thing i will be a buyer on the next dip at 40 or below.

To: djane who wrote (54118)	9/14/1998 3:02:00 AM
From: djane	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

Vendors Push VoIP Toward Carrier Class [ASND references] techweb.com September 14, 1998, Issue: 732 Section: News & Analysis Kate Gerwig and Chuck Moozakis This week's Voice on the Net show will highlight products that bridge the gap between IP and the public switched network. Ascend Communications Inc. is beefing up its remote access concentrators with a new operating system that supports quality of service and permits PC-to-phone communications. Version 7.0 of Ascend's Total Access OS will support up to five classes of compressed voice over ATM, as well as the delivery of voice over IP, voice over frame relay and fax over IP. In other news at this week's VON show in Washington, D.C.: - Voice & Data Systems will introduce its iService RealFAX service for client/server groupware users. - NetPhone Inc. will announce an IP telephony gateway that lets corporate users make long-distance calls between offices using a corporate intranet. The IP telephony gateway is intended to work with existing PBXs and analog telephones. - Clarent Corp. will add security features from Fortress Technologies Inc. to its product line to enable fully encrypted IP voice traffic over a customer's virtual private network. - Portal Software Inc. will unveil Infranet IPT, an end-to-end customer management and billing solution for businesses. "We have hit the second generation of equipment, and therefore services, in the IP telephony and fax space," according to Probe Research analyst Hilary Mine. "It's still not true carrier-class, but at least enterprises are beginning to adopt the technology and get beyond the trial stage." Ascend said that the goal with its new software is to provide carrier-class voice services that are optimized for data network requirements and provide end-to-end call setup, management and accounting. Ascend also will unveil an alliance with NetCentric Corp. to build IP fax capabilities into its MAX and MAX TNT remote access platform. Service trials will begin later this year; the service will be available in the first quarter of 1999. Copyright r 1998 CMP Media Inc.