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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2570)	3/15/1999 8:24:00 PM
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Article on Nortel call waiting while on the internet - Program allows you to answer the call and stay connected. Others do not. Ken zdnet.com Nortel Fields Net Calls By Kathleen Cholewka March 4, 1999 8:20 AM ET There's always room for improvement, especially when it comes to the imperfections of Internet telephony. Northern Telecom introduced its Internet Call Waiting software in late 1997, and it has issued new releases of the product every six months since then. The latest release, version 2, debuted last week. The newest perk: It lets users answer an incoming call, via Internet Protocol (IP) telephony, while they are still logged on to the Internet. An incoming call is indicated by a pop-up screen. Users can respond in several ways, including: rejecting the call; initiating an IP telephony phone call; or answering the call via regular telephony "fall back." In the last case, however, users lose the Net connection, because the phone line is assigned to handle the incoming voice call signal exclusively. Internet call waiting offerings from software vendors eFusion and Lucent Technologies do not let users maintain a Net connection while conducting a telephone call of any kind. Nortel Networks' IP telephony feature is compatible only with multimedia-enabled PCs. These PCs, according to Gary Shechtman, senior manager of business development at Nortel, account for 20 percent of existing computers and most new computers sold.