FastComm Announces Call Detail Recording Availability in the SignalPath Signaling Gateway Product Line - FastComm Communications Corporation - Company Business and Marketing

Cambridge Telcom Report, June 12, 2000

FastComm Communications Corporation (OTC BB: FSCX) Monday announced that its SignalPath signaling gateway products now support Call Detail Records (CDR).

CDR is a value-added feature in which each phone call traversing the signaling gateway is logged and the call information is retrievable by a network operator or CDR billing/service agent. The FastComm CDR feature supports calling party number, called party number, time, date and call duration.

Customers, such as long-distance carriers, international voice and data bypass service providers, ISPs, CLECs and voice over packet service providers, all stand to benefit from FastComm's introduction of CDR into the SignalPath signaling gateway products. CDR provides the capacity for network and telephony accounting for chargeback, fraud prevention, determination of line usage, validate connection charges, traffic reports and/or optimization studies to ensure the network is configured for maximum efficiencies.

According to Peter Madsen, president and chief executive officer of FastComm, "I am really excited about the benefits our customers can realize with CDR. I feel that CDR, coupled with our strong signaling gateway and voice over packet technology and experience, are the main ingredients in moving FastComm into the Softswitch and converged networking arena. The recent acquisition of Cronus Communications and a number of upcoming new feature and product offerings will solidify this strategy."

The SignalPath product line includes the 30, a platform that provides a heterogeneous signaling capability through up to 52 E1 or T1 trunks; and the 01, a compact unit that houses one signaling card with up to four E1 or T1 trunks. Designed for national, cross-border, international and new emerging voice over packet service providers to PSTN connections, both the 30 and the 01 support multi-national signaling protocols and perform u-Law to A-Law rate conversion.

FastComm Communications ( http://www.fastcomm.com ) is a complete signaling, voice and data system solution provider, offering innovative signaling interoperability solutions that include support for SS7, C7, ISDN, C5, R1, R2, and DTMF. FastComm also provides advanced IP and data solutions over Frame Relay and xDSL such as voice/data Integrated Access Devices (IADs) and IBM data center products.

Forward looking with a corporate goal to provide customers with leading edge technology and cost-effective means of incorporating these technologies into existing or new networks, FastComm is positioning itself at the forefront of the evolving converged networks.