TEK DigiTel Launches TEKVPN Trials
First to Market Software-controlled, Self-provisioned Integrated Access Devices (Soft-IAD)

GERMANTOWN, MD  -  February 28, 2001    TEK DigiTel Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: TEKI - news), a leader in VoIP CPE solutions for service providers, today announced TEKVPN, a new ``turn key'' voice VPN (virtual private network) solution for its global network service provider customers. TEKVPN is the first complete cost effective VoIP service package designed specifically to enable Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs), and any other service provider to fully outsource operations by utilizing TEKVPN's features, including device self-provisioning, network management, closed user groups, user directory server, customer support functions, billing systems as well as gatekeepers for their VoIP network. Built on an Applications Service Provider (ASP) model, TEKVPN delivers a unique level of flexibility that enables data-centric network service providers to easily integrate new voice and fax service with their existing data service offerings without being forced to incur the training and purchase costs necessary to implement billing systems, gatekeepers, network management systems and DDA (Dynamic Dialing Administrator) servers. Additionally, TEKVPN allows service providers to minimize the early technology challenges encountered during the roll out of any new service and reduce up-front and back-end support costs.

``The TEKVPN package offers us a complete VoIP solution which we intend to test in linking our corporate VPN environment between our head office in Taiwan and branch offices in Taiwan, China and the U.S.'', commented Sharming Lin, CEO of Formosa Industrial Computing, Inc. http://www.formosa21.com.

``To meet competitive challenges in a limited window of opportunity, service providers need to be able to respond quickly to customer demand for new and innovative services,'' explains Thomas Yang, COO, TEK DigiTel. ``By providing service providers with a fully operational back office infrastructure coupled with the self-provisioning capabilities of the Soft-IAD, the TEKVPN solution package eliminates many entry barriers faced by service providers and ensures a faster time to market with reduced cost.''

Today, TEK DigiTel provides a complete product line to service providers seeking to offer small and medium sized businesses economical voice services utilizing VoIP technology. The TEKVPN solution comprises:

    - TEK Dynamic Dialing Administrator Server (DDA) - providing user
       management, network management, call management and service
       provisioning
    - TEK Billing server -- a complete on-line voice service billing system
    - TEK H.323 gatekeeper -- for seamless connections to other VoIP networks
    - TEK Network Management System -- a standards-based SNMP management
       system
    - V-Server product family -- a complete set of enterprise-based gateways
       offering integrated voice, fax, and data services including PBX
       features, voice mail, interactive voice response and data routing
       features.

Although service providers may continue to purchase TEK DigiTel's products and manage their own voice services, TEKVPN allows customers the options of leasing TEKVPN components from the company. Customers can also choose to locate their network elements in their own facilities or in one of TEK DigiTel's TEKNET Points of Presence (POPs). Upgrading to a new TEKVPN service option easily accommodates service scalability. Furthermore, TEKNET offer standards-based VoIP interconnection to other carriers as well as PSTN gateway access to ensure global call coverage.

TEK DigiTel is currently conducting service provider trials of TEKVPN services in its trial network that consists of three global POPs located in the Virginia (US), Taipei (Taiwan) and Hong Kong. TEKVPN services are planned to be generally available in the second quarter of 2001.

About TEK DigiTel Corporation (http://www.tekdigitel.com)

Based in Germantown, Maryland, TEK DigiTel Corporation delivers integrated CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) communications solutions optimized for use in SOHO, small- and medium-sized businesses. Working with Service Providers and OEM partners, TEK is focused on integrating fax- and Voice-over-IP (VoIP) technologies with conventional PBX systems and data routing devices to create a low-cost, easy-to-use Internet communications hub. Founded in 1998, TEK is headed by a management team with extensive related experience gained at leading manufacturers and service providers including IBM, Data General, Hughes, Orbital Communications, Bell Atlantic, and GTE.

Statements made in this press release that are not historical or current facts are ``forward-looking statements'' made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Federal Securities Laws. Forward-looking statements represent management's best judgment as to what may occur in the future, but are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those presently anticipated or projected.