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To: Steve Reinhardt who wrote (2139)	11/18/1998 1:13:00 PM
From: Steve Reinhardt	Respond to of 3493

Rishi, Isn't it easy to add Internet phone to ESS's modem product line? Isn't it easy to offer Internet phone to its ES4828 Internet chip set? Has ESS have a modem chip set? Has ESS deliver Web browser where Internet phone software can be embedded in there? Mmm, great possibilities to ponder.... You don't have to pay long distance phone bills! Steve **** daily.zdevents.com Internet telephony products axing long-distance charges By Lamont Wood, The Daily The hawker at the Aplio booth in the North Hall said it all: "No more long distance phone bills! Give me your business cards…" And they were pressing forward with those cards, because the word seems to be out -- an Internet connection can carry data between two desktops anywhere in the world, and that data may as well be encoded voice as anything else. Since Internet access is typically not metered, and is achieved through local phone calls, long distance phone bills can be done away with. "There's a lot of hype out there," cautioned David Pratt, account manager at Digit International, one of the firms at the Internet Telephony Pavilion in the LVCC South Hall. "Latency issues mean that putting voice over the public Internet often produces ‘ham radio-quality' audio," he noted. Typically there is more interest among corporate intranet users, where sufficient bandwidth can be assured, Pratt noted. His product routes long distances call over intranets between PBXs at corporate branch offices. At the Aplio booth (LVCC North Hall, Booth L4248) -- one of several Internet telephony firms located outside the Internet Telephony Pavilion — they were showing a small $199 device that allows Internet telephony without a PC. Attached to a phone and controlled and programmed with its keypad, it has a modem and processor built in, to make the Internet connection itself. However, a call may be necessary to tell the receiving party to turn on their Aplio device, explained Olivier Zitoun, company president. At Smith Micro Software (LVCC North Hall, Booth L5034), Bruce Quigley, director of business development, explained that his firm's new product, the Internet CommSuite, combines audio and video -- but reserves bandwidth for the audio before sending any video. "Voice quality is excellent, but there are a lot of hardware issues with video," he noted. The idea also worked with fax machines, which don't worry about voice quality, explained Estaban Quintin Lecon, international business development manager at Castelle (LVCC North Hall, Booth L5510), also in the North Hall. Its Fax Press fax server can send via the Internet or phone lines, he explained.