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To: Carl Hindman who wrote (297)	12/2/1998 1:30:00 PM
From: james d. hargrave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 494

Hi Carl , I like what you wrote in earlier posts as far as reality goes. It's still bad news though. And Lo and Behold ,as if by premonition, yet another new product release. It seems to be helping price for now. G'luck to all, jh ______________________________________________________________________ New Software & Platform Enhancements Place Intelect in Internet Market Space RICHARDSON, Texas, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Intelect Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: ICOM - news), a leading provider of products and services for the seamless integration of voice, data and video technologies, announced today fourth quarter 1998 and fiscal year 1999 planned enhancements of its product lines into Internet and Internet driven markets with initial emphasis on the Internet Service Providers and Enhanced Service Providers. A combination of software and hardware advancements and additions are designed to position Intelect to compete in three Internet market segments: 1) platforms to deliver multiple Internet services; 2) the display of high quality content on the Internet and, 3) the use of Web browsing to manage user applications. The first phase is LANscape™ 2.2, available by year-end and designed to take advantage of the roll-out of xDSL and cable modems and the continued reduction of T1 lease rates which allow business and SOHO customers to avail themselves of multiple choices for high speed Internet access. New LANscape software enhancements utilize the additional bandwidth for collaborative multi-point videoconferencing, IP multi-casting, video e-mail, video-on- demand, and enhanced customer service applications, all over the Internet. Intelect Visual Communications, the division producing LANscape, is planning to be able to provide LANscape Player Plus software downloadable from the Internet in first half of 1999 to enable multimedia participation for viewing video broadcasts, video streaming, video-on-demand content and data collaboration. LANscape Player Plus software would include not only the viewing software, but also a low resolution standard compliant H.323 Internet protocol for software only videoconferencing. The second phase is the introduction of the Multi-Service Access Platform (MAP) during 1999 as a combination of enhancements to the SONETLYNX™ and FIBRETRAX™ platforms allowing Internet Service Providers to extend service offerings to their customers without replacing most existing technology. MAP is designed to be a revolutionary communications product for public and private networks to cost effectively create voice, data and video networks of virtually any size and application. Through the use of different protocol cards, MAP can simultaneously combine multiple communications transmissions such as Internet access, video communications, data files, graphics, interactive multimedia, voice and voice-over-the-Internet into a single fiber- optic signal. As an ''intelligent multiplexer,'' MAP is architected to provide internally the functions of traditional networking equipment such as bridges, routers and video matrix switches, at significant savings in cost and time for the user. Currently, the MAP can transport voice, Fast Ethernet (10/100baseT), LANscape, M-JPEG video and low speed data protocols such as RS-232 and RS-422 at speeds up to the OC-3/STM-1 rate (155 Mbps). Major product advancements are scheduled during 1999, which include adding the protocol cards for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Frame Relay as well as increasing the MAP's transmission speed to the OC-12/STM-3 rate (622 Mbps). In latter 1999, the plan is to increase the MAP's transmission speed to the OC-48/STM-16 rate (2,488 Mbps). The addition of each major protocol and the increases in transmission speeds are intended to exponentially increase the value of the MAP for end customers using such features. The third phase is field trials of the CS4 Intelligent Service Platform by selected Enhanced Service Providers scheduled to begin late first quarter 1999, with general product availability by mid year. Early application of CS4 focuses on Web managed conferencing of all types, along with prepaid calling card capability in the first release. Additional software releases will focus on integrating Voice-Over-IP and circuit switched voice signals into a single seamless application thereby combining Internet users with traditional telephony users.