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To: Charlie Yang who wrote (2626)	4/15/1999 5:47:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

Charlie, I'm afraid that I've not remained current in the software and board level space, or at least not to the extent that I can intelligently answer your question at this time. I'd have to come up to speed on their recent developments, in other words. Maybe Darren De Nunzio or someone else here can offer you an opinion. Darren? Frank Coluccio

To: Charlie Yang who wrote (2626)	4/17/1999 11:01:00 AM
From: Darren DeNunzio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3178

Charlie, regarding NMSS... Look deeper into NMSS, their products, technologies, and potential for future revenues, before making any decisions. One must question the relevance of recent company press releases, just hours before the release of earnings that reported a loss per share of $0.32. I have used NMSS Fusion 1.0 products in the development of a few Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems, not because NMSS was the best choice for the hardware. Rather it seems, vendors were shipped large quantities of NMSS products on credit, and instantly became NMSS suppliers. I found there Fusion 1.0 product to be highly inferior to similar products available. Their current Fusion 3.0 product, is stated to include the following: (from NMSS) Support for the PCI and CompactPCI platforms to increase scalability and availability for Enterprise and carrier-class solutions respectively. CompactPCI is a ruggedized hardware platform with performance requirements and a form-factor well suited to telecommunications systems, enabling companies to insert and extract boards without adversely affecting a running system. Proven IVR and T.37 fax capabilities to enable developers to build high-value messaging solutions. Supports the most comprehensive set of standard vocoding algorithms - G.727.1, G.711, G.729a, MS-GSM, ETSI GSM Dual 10/100Mb Ethernet interfaces for failover and multi-route support. Real-time fax support for comprehensive telephony coverage Support for H.323 version 2 and related emerging protocols including SIP, SGCP, MGCP to ensure flexibility, scalability and interoperability in network deployments If this all seems state-of-the-art, or at least appears to be from technology that is based on the companies technology patents, then you may want to look further. Currently NMSS holds no patents of any type. One NMSS product, that shows some promise is the NMS TX3000. From what I have learned it supports SS7 implementations from several different carriers. It is configurable with either a dual T1/E1 or 3-port V.35 interface via a daughterboard, and is reported to perform up to 200 to 400 transactions per second. Lets wait to see how this products performs in the real world. You have asked in a previous post, to compare NMSS with Dialogic. You were joking right ? I hope so ! By the way...anyone want to speculate on the Microsoft / Dialogic deal ?