DATA RACE Announces Next Generation Be There!(TM) Direction
Friday, November 13, 1998 05:00 AM
SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- DATA RACE (Nasdaq: RACE) announced the new FlexPlace
product direction for Be There!(TM) at today's annual shareholders meeting. The new architecture will
expand Be There!'s revolutionary Telepresence(TM) -- the appearance both to yourself and others that
you are working from the office, regardless of your physical location -- to emerging media and
connection technologies. This architecture is presented in a diagram on the web at
datarace.com. The new generation of Be There! Remote Access systems will
integrate with Voice over IP and operate over higher bandwidth media such as xDSL, cable modems,
and ISDN, in addition to ubiquitous POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service).
The emergence of higher speed connectivity to the home, though still in its infancy, demands a
solution that makes it possible to work over each individual's media of choice. The Company's plan is
to support popular access methods, whether via an Internet Service Provider's (ISP's) local Point of
Presence (PoP), direct-dial connection of other methods such as local access Virtual Private Network
(VPN).
To help bring this vision of FlexPlace to a greater market, DATA RACE is developing a ground-breaking
new Be There! client which installs on customers' existing PC hardware. DATA RACE demonstrated
this new client software at the shareholder meeting today. The Company is also well along in the
development of a next generation of Be There! server to interoperate with existing remote access
servers.
The Be There! Remote Access system is the only product available in the market today which provides
Telepresence to all elements of the corporate communications network simultaneously over a single
phone line -- the communications medium used for an estimated 97% of all remote access today. This
revolutionary product also provides Telepresence -- enabling you to get your office phone calls and
faxes and to have all the office telephone features -- such as transferring calls to colleagues or
conferencing from your computer. Once connected to the corporate office via the Be There! system the
user has simultaneous access to the corporate computer network, fax server, and telephone system.
Thus, remote workers can work just as they would in the office.
"Thirty years ago, I was one of a small group that created what is today the Internet," said DATA
RACE President and CEO Dr. W.B. Barker, "This integration of telephony onto the data backbone and
over the last mile is the most important evolution in networking in that time."
RISKS REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release contains various "forward-looking statements" which represent the Company's
expectations or beliefs concerning future events, including the value of its intellectual property and the
market success of integrated voice data products. The Company cautions that these forward-looking
statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties and are qualified by important factors that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Such factors
include the inability of the Company to fully pursue development and marketing of the products
described due to limited resources, uncertainty as to the source of funding, the ability to convince
prospective customers and partners of the value of the Company's technology, and the technical
feasibility of the described extensions. Should the Company fail to deliver such products, or should the
market fail to embrace them, such failure may have a material adverse effect on the Company's
financial condition and operations.
ABOUT DATA RACE, INC.
DATA RACE, Inc. (www.datarace.com) designs, manufactures, and markets a line of communications
products for remote access to the corporate environment. Its unique client/server product, the Be
There!(TM) Remote Access System, gives teleworkers access to all elements of corporate
communications networks, including the PBX, Intranet and Internet. Through Be There!, remote workers
send and receive e-mail, faxes and phone calls simultaneously over a single phone line. DATA RACE
also designs and manufactures advanced network multiplexers that carry data, network, voice and fax
traffic among a company's multiple offices. DATA RACE products are resold nationally through Inacom
Communications and Data General Corp., and through many regional resellers
NOTE: DATA RACE and the DATA RACE logo are trademarks of DATA RACE, Inc. registered in the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Be There! is a trademark of DATA RACE, Inc.
Contacts
Kenneth Witt 210-263-2129
Data Race Inc. kwitt@datarace.com
John Liviakis or Bob Prag 916-448-6094
Liviakis Financial Communications, Inc.
SOURCE DATA RACE, Inc.
CONTACT: Kenneth Witt of DATA RACE, Inc., 210-263-2129, or kwitt@datarace.com; or John Liviakis,
or Bob Prag of Liviakis Financial Communications, Inc., 916-448-6094, for DATA RACE
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