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To: Stephen B. Temple who wrote (2070)	12/9/1998 8:21:00 AM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

Clarent Corporation Receives Intel Investment December 9, 1998 REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)Clarent(TM) Corporation today announced that Intel Corporation has made an investment in Clarent, a leading provider of standards-based IP telephony solutions. Financial details were not disclosed. Clarent Corporation manufactures Internet Telephony technology geared toward the carrier market segment, including telecommunications companies and internet service providers. These carriers implement Clarent technology in their networks and offer IP-based consumer, enterprise, and wholesale long distance voice, fax and data services. Intel makes small minority investments in companies that have technologies capable of accelerating growth in the computing market segment and creating new demand for high performance Intel processors. Clarent and Intel will also work together to bring Clarent's IP telephony technology and expertise out to the edge of the network in applications such as broadband, set top box and other related technologies. In addition, Clarent plans to support Intel's forthcoming Merced(TM) processor. "We are very pleased to receive this investment and be working with Intel, " said Jerry Chang, CEO, president and co-founder of Clarent Corporation. "Today's investment will help accelerate the delivery of high quality IP telephony edge devices to businesses and households." "Customers require highly scalable, robust, high performance solutions to accelerate the use of IP telephony solutions," said Scott Richardson, Director of Server Software Marketing of Intel. "The investment in Clarent supports Intel's direction to bring Intel(R) Architecture-based IP Telephony to carriers, service providers, and operators worldwide." About Clarent Corporation Clarent Corporation is a privately held company and a premier provider of Internet telephony solutions offering clear voice, real-time fax, SS7/C7 integration, universal voice/fax/data ports and a host of other business-ready capabilities. Clarent Command Center provides billing and management for a very large network of Clarent Gateways. All Clarent products are backed by a complete, robust, scalable network infrastructure, enabling network and enterprise customers to easily run their business communications on IP telephony. Founded in July 1996, Clarent is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and also has offices in Chicago, Taipei, Tokyo, Seoul and Europe. Additional information about Clarent is available at clarent.com. Note to Editors: Clarent is a registered trademark of Clarent Corporation in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other company or product names mentioned may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. CONTACT: Clarent Corporation \| Richard Heaps, 650/481-1770 (COO) \| Internet: rich@clarent.com \| Amy Wright, 650/481-1743 (Corp. Communications) \| Internet: amy@clarent.com \| or \| Intel Corporation \| Bill Calder, 503/264-5669 \| Internet: bill.calder@intel.com [Copyright 1998, Business Wire]

To: Stephen B. Temple who wrote (2070)	12/9/1998 9:00:00 AM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Respond to of 3178

iReady, Open Port Partner to Deliver Low-Cost Internet Faxing to Fax Machines, Multi-Function Peripherals; Strategic Initiative Part of Open Port Internet Gateway SDK Program Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 1998--Open Port(R) Technology Inc. and iReady(R) Corp. announced today a strategic partnership to make low-cost Internet faxing as simple as pushing a button on a fax machine. The two companies are working together to add Internet fax gateway protocol support to iReady's Internet Tuner(TM) for MFPs (Multi-Function Peripherals) and Fax Machines module. With gateway protocol support, MFPs and fax machines equipped with the Internet Tuner can send faxes via Internet service providers (ISPs) deploying Open Port's Harmony(R) NSP fax solution. Service providers that have deployed Harmony NSP include UUNET, an MCI WorldCom Company, and GRIC(R) Communications Inc. Prototypes of Internet Tuner are expected to be available at the end of this year, with full deployment in fax machines and MFPs expected in the second half of 1999. With Internet Tuner, manufacturers can easily and inexpensively enable their MFPs and fax machines to send faxes over the Internet, making low-cost Internet faxing available to a mass market -- a market estimated to grow to $6.4 billion worldwide by the year 2002. By faxing over the Internet, businesses can reduce their long distance faxing charges by 30-70 per cent. Currently, 40 percent of an average U.S. business' long-distance telephone bill is for faxing. The iReady partnership represents a strategic initiative within Open Port's Internet Gateway Software Developers Kit (SDK) program. Through the SDK program, fax device manufacturers can easily add IP faxing capabilities to their devices. The SDK program lets third-party developers easily integrate the Open Port Internet Gateway Applications Programming Interface (API) into their products or applications. Open Port announced last month CommercePath Inc., Microsoft(R) Corp. and Optus Software Inc. as Internet Gateway SDK partners. "The goal of our SDK program is to drive more Internet fax traffic to Open Port-enabled service providers," said Randy Storch, chairman and CEO of Open Port. "As part of the program, we are targeting fax device manufacturers. iReady will play an important role in helping us achieve this goal. We look forward to working with them to bring the benefits of IP fax to millions of fax users." "Our partnership with Open Port allows fax manufacturers the ability to make their devices 'Internet-ready' in much the same way that TV's and VCR's are 'cable-ready'," said iReady CEO Ryo Koyama. "To consumers and businesses, this means that IP faxing will soon be available in standard fax machines, significantly lowering their faxing costs." According to industry analysts, 10-11 million fax machines will be sold worldwide in 1999. Less than one percent of the installed base are Internet-enabled because of the extremely high cost of adding Internet functionality. With iReady's Internet Tuner module, the more than eight million low-end fax machines shipped annually can now be made Internet-ready for virtually the same cost as traditional fax machines. iReady's unique "Internet-on-a-chip" approach allows fax equipment manufacturers to include Internet capabilities for well under $10, a fraction of the cost of other solutions. Unlike embedded software approaches, iReady's semiconductor logic approach allows manufacturers to add functionality to existing silicon designs without requiring a larger processor or large amounts of memory. Key to the relationship with iReady is Open Port's agreements with major network service providers which have deployed Open Port software to support on-ramps to carry traffic from fax machines. UUNET's UUFax(SM) service represents just such an agreement. In addition to supporting Open Port's protocols to interface with Harmony-enabled network service providers, the Internet Tuner module for MFPs provides basic TCP/IP networking, email and Web serving capabilities for any fax device or MFP. iReady's Internet Tuner module also provides a modular approach to accommodate other emerging Internet standards. iReady

To: Stephen B. Temple who wrote (2070)	12/9/1998 9:28:00 AM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Respond to of 3178

FCC RELEASES REPORT ON LOCAL COMPETITION The FCC has released a staff report titled Local Competition. The report presents a summary of currently available statistical material, information from Common Carrier Bureau surveys, and information mined from other public sources. Information is presented for all states and, where available, for smaller geographic areas. Revenues of local service competitors continue to increase rapidly, from a small base. These revenues doubled in 1997, to $3 billion. Incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) revenues, starting from a much larger base, continue to increase but at a less rapid pace. The net effect of these trends is a gain in market share by competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs), but their presence remains less than 5% of the local market. Because the FCC does not have data on the number of customer lines that CLECs provide solely over their own facilities, the report does not contain information on the total number of customer lines that CLECs serve. As the report indicates, some industry observers believe CLECs currently provide a total of between 4 and 5 million switched lines, which is less than 3% of nationwide switched access lines. Where CLECs have chosen to use ILEC services (resold lines) or ILEC unbundled network element loops (UNE loops) to enter local markets, they use about 10 times as many resold lines as UNE loops, in the aggregate. In 1994, no CLECs had acquired the numbering resources (central office codes) necessary to provide switched services solely over their own facilities. By the third quarter of 1998, CLECs had received such resources in every state except West Virginia. These facilities-based CLECs are concentrated in more urbanized areas, as opposed to rural areas. The report is available for reference in the Common Carrier Bureau Public Reference Room, 2000 M Street, N.W., Room 575. Copies may be purchased by calling International Transcription Services, Inc. (ITS) at (202) 857-3800. The report can be downloaded [file name LCOMP98.PDF or LCOMP98.ZIP] from the FCC-State Link internet site at fcc.gov on the World Wide Web.