Excite Voice Chat Powered by Lipstream Breaks Record Numbers; Consumers Flock to Voice-Based Interactivity on World Wide Web

Business Wire, August 4, 1999

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 1999--

Lipstream(TM), leaders in live voice for e-business, has propelled record numbers for Excite@Home's new product, Excite Voice Chat.

In the first month of service, Excite Voice Chat has achieved over 400,000 downloads of the Voice Chat/Lipstream client.

"The success of Excite Voice Chat has exceeded every expectation," said Craig Donato, vice president of products, Excite@Home. "Lipstream has been a great partner and we anticipate quickly integrating live voice into other Excite offerings."

Lipstream provides live Internet voice service for Excite Voice Chat -- a communities and chat area for Excite users. Consumers use Excite Voice Chat to conduct live, one-to-one and one-to-many conversations over the Web, enjoying telephone-quality communication, free of charge.

The Lipstream voice service is available on Excite at voicechat.excite.com. In order to participate in Excite Voice Chat, consumers simply need a PC, microphonthat live voice communication is a compelling w Internet today.

To use Lipstream's voice application, consumers only need a 28.8 or above Internet connection, speakers and a microphone. The Lipstream client takes less than a minute to download and automatically installs into most Web browsers.

Lipstream enables e-businesses to quickly deploy voice communication by providing the back-end networking infrastructure and bandwidth required to deliver multi-person, live voice communication on the Internet.

The Lipstream service is supported by a massively scaleable patent-pending architecture comprised of high-performance servers with telco-grade up-time, managed QoS (quality of service), 24x7 support and, co-location and bandwidth provided by Qwest Communications, Inc.

About Lipstream Networks, Inc.

Lipstream is the leading Internet voice service provider for eBusiness. Lipstream's service enables live voice communication for e-commerce, customer service, education, entertainment and community applications. Lipstream is privately held and venture-backed by Sequoia Capital.

Lipstream is located in Cupertino, and can be found on the Internet at www.lipstream.com and contacted via telephone at 408/861-8200.

Note to Editors: Lipstream and the Lipstream logo are trademarks of Lipstream Networks, Inc. Other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.