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To: Kalman who wrote (2648)	4/24/1999 2:12:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

Kalman, thanks for that note regarding IG2. I did a lookup on Fidelity Holdings' FDHG site, and found this: --- Talkie IG2 Switching Platform Info Systems is introducing the Talkie IG2 Switch. This switch incorporates Summa Four technology and is based on the Summa Four switching platform. Talkie IG2 now has the ability to deliver calls via the Internet, through regular carriers or through lease lines all within the same platform. Talkie IG2 is the first carrier class Internet telephony solution that in combination with the Talkie Cybernet network guarantees quality of service. This result in the ability to deliver low cost Internet telephone calls with conventional carrier toll quality and scalability. With Talkie IG2 we have added a new dimension to least cost routing. Calls can be directed through conventional carriers, leased lines or Internet based on the following criterias: PIN Number Area Code Day of the Week Time of Day Traffic Talkie IG2 is the switching platform of the future and the future is now! --- It's not too surprising to see the SUMA name in there. It's a product line subject that I've covered here in this space many times over the past two years, as a transition technology, along with XLSW's. And for those who many not recall, SUMA (Summa Four) was acquired by CSCO last year, for this very reason. Regards, Frank Coluccio ps - Coyote appeared to be attempting the same thing through the use of SUMA technology, for a while, but it doesn't appear that they've been quite so successful...

To: Kalman who wrote (2648)	4/26/1999 7:51:00 AM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

The entrepreneurial takeaway: until this three-way tug-of- war is resolved, content and communications companies must remain completely pipe-agnostic. The AT&T bid for MediaOne, coming one month after the announced Comcast/MediaOne merger, illustrates how threatened the telecom companies are by the migration of information traffic to Internet technologies. AT&T is trying, with this attempted acquisition and with the TCI acquisition, to buy up the bandwidth and wires that now reach directly into homes and businesses. It's easier to get those connections through these acquisitions than it would be to deal with the local telcos directly, not to mention the regulatory and technical challenges that would entail. The borders between the Internet, telecom, and broadcast industries continue to blur. Today, each industry owns a piece of the total communications equation. But tomorrow, you may be getting your phone service from your ISP, video from a phone company, and Internet access from a local telco. (Or, more realistically, all of the above from one source.) AT&T won't pull this one off, cough, errr if they do, then the FCC has lost a few spokes I didn't know about. <smiling> Temp'