TEK DigiTel Helps Service Providers Bring VoIP to Dial-Up Internet Users With 'Remote Wake Up' Feature
Innovation Overcomes Issue of Completing Calls While Users are Offline

GERMANTOWN, Md., Aug. 10  -- In the interest of bringing the full benefits of Internet Telephony to all Internet users, a new capability from TEK DigiTel (OTC Bulletin Board TEKI) enables dial-up ISDN and analog modem users to receive VoIP (Voice over IP) calls even when disconnected from the Internet. With the new Remote Wake-up feature, the VoiceServer.net Internet Telephony Portal automatically signals the remote V-Server Gateway/Router to ``wake up'' and connect to the Internet to allow the voice call to be completed.

The Remote Wake-Up feature addresses the issue of completing calls to users that are not currently logged on to the Internet. ``Up to now, most of what we do on the Web is self-originated but Internet Telephony changes that. Now, if the user isn't online when a call comes in, the network has to be able to reach out to them,'' explains Rocco DiCarlo, President, TEK DigiTel. ``With our new feature, our VoiceServer.net portal rings the V-Server device to place a call and, if the user isn't logged on, the gateway automatically dials the ISP to log on.''

Making IP Telephony More Valuable, Viable

TEK DigiTel's equipment and supplemental services are designed to make IP telephony less expensive and complex for providers to provision and for users to adopt. TEK's V-Server gateway/routers are user-installable and inexpensive enough for carriers to bundle with voice, data and Internet access services. TEK's VoiceServer.net Portal and other supplemental services minimize providers' deployment efforts and overhead to improve the business case for new services. In keeping with the Company's R & D goals, the new Remote Wake- up feature simplifies and extends the value of IP Telephony to both users and providers.

For small and medium sized businesses that stand to benefit most from IP Telephony, the Wake-up feature negates the need for expensive services that stay online at all times. Users can continue to take advantage of low-cost dial-up services such as ISDN or analog dial. For providers, services can be rolled out quickly without having to confront the issue of outgoing calls.

``Internet Service Providers have always wrestled with the issue of supporting dial-out services from their POPs (Points of Presence). Prior to Internet Telephony, the complexity introduced when dial-in servers are asked to perform this function far outweighed the benefits, but the need to deploy VoIP to a huge population of dial-up customers is reviving the problem,'' says James Sturgess, Director of Marketing at TEK DigiTel. ``We are addressing this issue by providing them with a means to offer these services by offloading the implementation and management to our VoiceServer.net Internet Telephony Portal.''

How It Works

VoiceServer.net ``wakes up'' Customer Premise sites that are disconnected from the Internet using the conventional PSTN signaling system. Users wishing to use this service simply configure their V-Server Gateway to register the phone number of their ISDN or analog circuit with VoiceServer.net. Upon receiving a request for a call to a user that is not online, VoiceServer.net will generate a standard ``unanswered'' telephone call to the Customer Premise V-Server with this phone number, causing it to initiate a dial up connection to the local ISP. With both ends connected to the Internet, VoiceServer.net then allows the call to proceed.

The Remote Wake-up feature is now shipping in Release 2.4 of the V-Server iGate software along with other enhancements such as: H.323 Fast Call Setup, full T.38 Fax support and Expanded Calling Options. Registered Customers and Partners can download the software at no charge from the TEK DigiTel web site and a detailed explanation of VoiceServer.net operation including the new Remote Wake-Up feature can be found at http://www.voiceserver.net/.

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, the Company 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 DigiTel is publicly traded (OTC Bulletin Board: TEKI - news) and headed by a management team with extensive related experience gained at leading manufacturers and service providers including Motorola, 3Com, IBM, Nortel Networks, Rockwell, Hughes, MCI Worldcom, Bell Atlantic, Bell Canada, BellSouth, and GTE.

Statements in this news release looking forward in time involve risks and uncertainties, including the risks associated with the effect of changing economic conditions, trends in the development of the Internet as a commercial medium and carrier of telephony traffic, market acceptance risks, technological development risks, seasonality and other risk factors.