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

To: Tae Spam Kim who wrote (7704)	5/17/1999 1:11:00 PM
From: Plan B	Respond to of 30916

Faber says Qwest is trying to bust up the GBLX deal.

To: Tae Spam Kim who wrote (7704)	5/17/1999 1:27:00 PM
From: Plan B	Respond to of 30916

Most have probably seen this already, but... What does this mean for IDT et al? I'm sure this chip is initially aimed at the business phone market and clearly backs up my view that internet telephones like everything else connected to the internet will eventually be an appliance. Lucent debuts single-chip IP phone New device to cut costs for business systems BRIAN QUINTON Lucent Technologies used the Networld + Interop convention in Las Vegas last week to unveil what it claims is the world's first single-chip solution for Internet telephones. Called the Phone-On-A-Chip, the new unit distills the functions of five separate chips onto a single chip for an Internet protocol phone on a LAN. It promises to reduce the cost of the electronics component of IP telephones and cut the price of the units themselves—currently about $250—by approximately 30%, perhaps bringing it down as low as $150. Lucent expects the first market for the chip to come from manufacturers developing phone systems for small to medium-sized businesses that want to use their in-house Internet networks to transmit both voice and data. "This could be a real boost to the IP phone market," said telecom analyst George Albini, of Protean Consulting. "Per-unit price has been one substantial barrier to wider use of the Internet for voice. While the reliability of IP phones is still a work in progress, it's good to see movement this substantial on the cost front," he added. The Lucent Phone-On-A-Chip incorporates an Ethernet media access controller, two Ethernet 10/100 Mb/s transceiver interface drivers and a repeater. Other functions include digital signal processor and microprocessor cores; codecs for a telephone handset and speakerphone; and amplifiers. internettelephony.com