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To: Tom Nealon who wrote (1879)	2/8/1999 1:33:00 PM
From: Secret_Agent_Man	Respond to of 30916

IP Telephony to Drive the Open Communications Revolution, According to Piper Jaffray Study Investment Banking Firm Expects Spending to Reach $14.7 Billion on IP Telephony Solutions and Services by 2003, Driven by the Adoption of the Technology by Major Service Providers and Corporations' Need to Integrate Disparate Networks, Lower Costs and Offer a Broader List of Enhanced Services MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Spending on IP telephony-related software, hardware, products and services will reach $14.7 billion by the year 2003, according to Edward R. Jackson, senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray Inc. That's one of the conclusions Jackson draws in ''The IP Telephony Report -- Driving The Open Communications Revolution,'' released this month. The first comprehensive study of the rapidly emerging IP telephony industry, Jackson's report outlines how this spending will revolutionize the ways in which we communicate for business and with each other. The 170-page document provides an in-depth examination of six separate areas of the IP telephony industry: enabling technology, enterprise solutions, carrier-class solutions, applications, service providers and professional end-to-end services. The report includes projections in each area for revenue growth, size of the industry opportunity, business models and potential catalysts and restraints. Additionally, the report discusses the technology behind IP telephony and the new network architectures upon which these new communication networks will be built. Some of the report's most significant findings include: -- IP telephony combines the advantages of both the traditional voice networks with the advantages of the data networks. This combination results in the existence of a single, inter-operable network with quality of service (QoS), class of service (CoS), new services and scalable bandwidth; -- Traditional service providers are caught in the middle of a large scale convergence of voice and data, which has caused an immediate need for trials and testing of this new infrastructure. We believe trials will continue through 1999, with massive deployments to begin in 2000; -- The large data/telecom vendors will dominate the infrastructure market and smaller vendors will dominate the applications market. Alternatively, small and new carriers will be the ''introducers'' of the technology to the world, but the large service providers will make this a mainstream technology. The industry has yet to reach its true acceleration phase and, consequently, significant growth awaits its future; -- While toll bypass remains the dominant driver of the industry, eventually the enhanced services will take over as the leading driver of the 158 percent blended growth rate for IP telephony. These enhanced services include: Click-N-Call, Internet Call Waiting, Unified Messaging, Surf-With-Me, Collaboration, and Conferencing; -- Minutes of communication services traveling over IP telephony networks will grow from 70 million and less than 0.1 percent of all PSTN minutes in 1997, to over 70 billion minutes and 6.1 percent of all PSTN minutes by 2003; -- All segments of this industry are projected to grow at or above a 100 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) into the year 2003. Leading this growth wave will be the carrier-class infrastructure market with a 170 percent CAGR, followed by services at 168 percent, enhanced services at 125 percent, enterprise infrastructure at 93 percent, and enabling technology at 92 percent over this period.

To: Tom Nealon who wrote (1879)	2/8/1999 1:37:00 PM
From: blankmind	Respond to of 30916

Draft Due Today On How to Open Web Registration Idt Corp. The Wall Street Journal -- February 8, 1999 Technology: ---- By John Simons Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON -- Taking its first step toward breaking Network Solutions Inc.'s hold on registering Internet-domain names, a government-appointed panel is expected today to release a draft set of guidelines for potential competitors. The panel is expected to address whether to open the market to smaller, relatively inexperienced firms or limit it to larger, well-established entities such as telecommunications and Internet-service concerns. The report is expected after financial markets close today. The panel is holding the guidelines closely, partly because Network Solutions expects to make a secondary stock offering this week. After a public-comment period, the draft guidelines will be completed at the next board meeting of the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, in Singapore on March 4. Since 1992, Network Solutions has had an exclusive federal contract to handle distribution of Internet addresses ending in ".com," ".net," ".org," and ".edu." It charges $70 for the first two years of registration and $35 annually thereafter. In 1998, the company registered approximately 1.9 million new Internet addresses, nearly double the 960,000 in 1997. Last fall, the federal government began the process of opening up the domain-naming market, granting ICANN the authority to hammer out a plan. The domain-naming system is critical to a Web browser's ability to find a site on the vast World Wide Web or an electronicmail message's ability to find its way around the world. Any foul-up could cause major Internet bottlenecks. ICANN by the end of March will pick five companies to test reliability of a competitive system. Among potential competitors, the 89 companies constituting the Internet Council of Registrars are looking for ways to augment other businesses. The council includes Deutsche Telekom AG, New Jersey's IDT Corp. and France Telecom Internet-service unit Transpac. Chairman Ken Stubbs noted that many companies realize domain registration may not be as lucrative in the future. "As more and more people get into this market and more domain names are introduced, this will become a commodity market," Mr. Stubbs said. Later this year, ICANN also will decide how to expand the domain-name market, adding so-called top-level domains -- for example, ".firm," ".shop" or ".web" -- to the pool that includes ".com," ".net" and the like.