Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : IDT *(idtc) following this new issue?* -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RocketMan who wrote (2669)	3/14/1999 6:42:00 PM
From: nord	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 30916

I haven't posted in a while too busy smiling at all those nay sayers and downgraders. The company continues to execute. This will propel cash flow to build out the network. Hopefully some other browsers will begin to look at the value offered today by IDTC and the net phone convenience for e commerce and work related or personal calling. Sorry but I had to post it one more time:)) Norden Net2Phone dials up Netscape By Steve Gelsi, CBS MarketWatch Last Update: 10:29 AM ET Mar 10, 1999NewsWatch HACKENSACK, N.J. (CBS.MW) -- Internet phone specialist IDT Communications said Wednesday that its Net2Phone brand will be featured on Netscape's browser as part of a a multi-year, global distribution deal. IDTC NASD LastChg.18 1/2+0 5/8% Chg.Vol.+3.50%2,006,000Day Lo.Day Hi.17 1/1619 1/8 OpenPrev.17 15/1617 7/8 As of Mar 14/99 6:26 pm ET Last Trade Mar 12/99 4:00 pm ET 15 MIN. DELAY IDT Communications (IDTC) and Mountain View, Calif.-based Netscape (NSCP) agreed to bundle Net2Phone on Netscape Communicator, and to feature the service as a button on the browser's Personal Toolbar. "When you click on that (button) you will be able to make Internet telephony calls," said IDT Communications Executive Vice President Jonathan Reich. "That's significant considering users will no longer have to download our software. It'll be integrated into the Netscape browsers."Today on CBS MarketWatchDim prospects for rate hikeComputer Literacy goes beyond tech booksCyberShop inks pact with YahooZapman on where the great business leaders have goneDow party in eye of beholderMore top stories...CBS MarketWatch ColumnsUpdated: 3/14/99 5:04:56 PM ET The service will also be integrated into Netscape's Net Center; it'll be plugged in ads on Netscape sites. Last November Netscape agreed to be acquired by America Online (AOL) for $4.2 billion. Reich declined to comment on whether IDT will pursue a deal with AOL, the dominant online service with more than 15 million subscribers. Net2Phone will soon raise its profile with ads in USA Today carrying the themeline, "Net2Phone, your online communications company," Reich said. "With Netscape we've brought the PC to phone communications piece out to the masses," Reich said. Calls will cost as little as 4.9 cents per minute, the company said. The Netscape deal follows pacts with Yahoo (YHOO) and Excite (XCIT). Introduced in 1996, Net2Phone was the first service to bridge the Internet with the public switched telephone network. Shares of IDT Communications gained 1 1/2 to 16 15/16 shortly after the opening bell onWednesday. Netscape added 2 1/8 to 81 5/8. Net2Phone competitors include VocalTec (VOCLF), RSL Communications (RSLCF), Inter-TEL (INTL), and NetSpeak (NSPK). Steve Gelsi is a reporter for CBS MarketWatch.

To: RocketMan who wrote (2669)	3/14/1999 6:57:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 30916

RocketMan, surely, I'll give it a try. I addressed part of this in my last message here. The Excel or others like it that have been properly modified with IP Routing on the back end, along with the necessary gateway and other VoIP software, will be used as a transition platform. The SP will thus be able to address both the old PSTN world, and the new packet world of VoIP. Certain ports on the switch will point to the SS7 controlled network (the legacy way), others will point to an private IP backbone (the bypass way), and still others will point to IP links that have been substituted for intermachine trunks on the public PSTN (in lieu of the legacy way trunks). This last group will be governable under SS7 call set up and tear down procedures, but it will still enjoy the economies associated with IP. CISCO has done this with the Summa Four. I believe Excel has partnered with at least one of the VoIPs to this end. If I'm not mistaken, it was with VocalTec, most recently, but I'm not so sure how far they've taken it. It might be interesting to note that in the winter of '97-'98 I interviewed both SUMA and XLSW on this matter, and neither could address my questions with anything substantive, since neither at that time had taken this approach seriously yet. Internet Time is for real. techweb.com This would be a classical means of doing traditional telephony over an IP backbone. It does not, however, address Internet Telephony from a purist's perspective. That is, it does not deal with pure IP constructs, rather it mimics the PSTN as we now know it. This is the way that most VoIP ITSPs are headed, since "pure" Internet Telephony is still in its very early stages of conceptualization (at least with respect to where it would be of any use on a global scale). What the ITSPs are doing now, for the most part, is emulating most of the features that are now available through the PSTN, only they are using the more efficient transport characteristics of the Internet protocol and compression, as opposed to switched links and pulse code modulation at the 64 kb/s level on the intermediate routes between switching entities. And most continue to use the existing LEC POTS facilities for origination and termination of calls. Regards, Frank_C.