POPstar ISP Consortium Selects Integrated Enroute / Brooktrout Technology Turnkey Carrier-Scale IP-Fax Gateway for Global Off-ramps.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1999--

INET '99--POPstar Global Communications, a newly formed global consortium of independent Internet Service Providers (ISPs), announced that it has selected TGI's Enroute fax software and Brooktrout Technology's TR114 Series(TM) fax and voice boards and PRI cards for its Global IP-Fax Off-ramp locations.

POPstar is building a worldwide IP messaging network comprised of Independent ISP partners. Through the POPstar consortium, ISP partners offer a full range of billable value-add IP-Fax services -- including long distance fax services -- to customers around the World. Unified IP Messaging services will be added later in 1999. POPstar's goal is to provide users with easy-to-use, localized, quality messaging services at rates that are very competitive with traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) rates.

POPstar enables ISPs to join its global service and enter the IP-Fax messaging business for zero to very low start-up costs. POPstar licenses TGI's Solaris based Enroute Carrier-Class IP-Fax software to joining ISPs at no charge in return for a share of the long distance fax revenue. POPstar uses the TransNexus Private Open Settlement Protocol (OSP) Clearinghouse Service for POPstar's revenue sharing service. The TransNexus Clearinghouse provides an impartial, third party call settlement service that allows ISPs to share Enroute servers, network resources, fax traffic and revenue. Enroute also provides an integrated solution that leverages popular Remote Access Server (RAS) Products to keep ISP market entry costs to a minimum.

Russ McDermott, Director of Marketing for POPstar said, "we chose Enroute because its server is scalable to the needs of the largest carrier, allowing faxes to be intelligently routed over IP among a network of Enroute servers and RAS products. ISPs can leverage their RAS equipment and offer the new billable fax services without additional capital expenditures. Enroute also provides a robust turnkey solution with industry accepted Brooktrout Technology TR114 fax and voice boards and PRI cards."

The POPstar global ISP network is comprised of On-ramp partners -- ISPs that originate calls from users -- and Off-Ramp partners -- ISPs that accept and deliver calls. Each partner receives a share of revenue for originating or delivering a call. A Global Off-ramp supports the delivery of calls to locations where ISP partners are not located. In addition to POPstar's combined ISP partner off-ramps, the Global Off-ramps guarantee that users' calls will be delivered to any fax device in the world at the best possible rate.

"We chose Brooktrout Technology hardware for our Global IP-Fax Off-ramps because of its proven reliability and acceptance in Global Markets by most Telephone companies for high-end, high volume fax applications." said Russ McDermott, POPstar's Director of Marketing. "This was very important to us because of the high volume of fax traffic expected through POPstar's global off-ramps. The Brooktrout Technology hardware also provides enhanced functionality such as DID routing, which allows ISP partners to offer endusers services such fax mailboxes. The DID capability, combined with Brooktrout Technology's IVR functions and API, also allows the eventual support other value add applications such as unified messaging mailboxes."

Approved in more than 30 countries worldwide, Brooktrout Technology's TR114 intelligent fax boards provide advanced fax features, including MMR compression for faster transmission of faxes, T.434 binary file transfer capability, and on board fax processing. Additionally, through a robust implementation of the T.30 protocol, the TR114 intelligent fax boards have superior interoperability with fax machines globally and will easily connect and transmit to a much wider variety of fax machines than competitive solutions.

About POPstar Global Communications

POPstar is an Internet Messaging Consortium that is building a worldwide IP messaging network, beginning with IP-Fax services and later unified messaging, comprised of Independent ISPs. Member ISPs are offering a full range of billable services -- including long distance fax services -- to customers around the World. POPstar makes it possible for regional ISPs to tap into an international network to deliver billable fax services on a worldwide basis. POPstar's goal is to provide users with easy-to-use, localized, quality services at rates that are competitive with traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) rates.

POPstar Communications Canada 107 East 3rd Avenue Vancouver, BC V5T 1C7 CANADA T: 604/872-6676, F: 604/872-6601 Mail: [e-mail] URL: http://www.pop-star.net

About TGI Technologies Ltd.

TGI was founded in 1989. TGI is a Brooktrout Partner, Ascend Multi-Voice Alliance Partner and Sun Catalyst Partner/software developer, which provides a complete range of integrated fax/voice/data-messaging applications for TCP/IP LANs, WANs, Intranets and the Internet. TGI develops Enroute, a family of Solaris based products, which include Enroute WorkGroup, Enterprise, Messenger and Eclipse.

Key Enroute features include powerful Sun Server Platforms, carrier-scale distributed server design, SSL, Radius support, third party call settlements, Windows 95/98/NT clients, and fax machine on-ramps. Enroute provides a Web Browser Interface for Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Enroute's Web Browser Interface and file conversion server technology simplifies user access and minimizes ISP support costs. Users do not need to purchase or install additional software to use the service or convert fax file attachments when sending a fax. Fax file conversion is performed transparently to users using Enroute's file conversion server technology. Enroute also supports the conversion of foreign language double-byte character sets for international markets.

TGI Technologies Ltd. 107 East 3rd Avenue Vancouver, BC V5T 1C7 CANADA T: 604/872-6676, F: 604/872-6601 Mail: [e-mail] URL: http://www.tgivan.com

About Brooktrout Technology

Brooktrout Technology, a Brooktrout Company (Nasdaq:BRKT), provides enabling technologies for customers to deliver voice, fax and data solutions for the electronic communications market. Brooktrout Technology's high performance, high quality products include: voice, fax, remote access and WAN access cards, application development tools, and voice systems. For more information visit the Brooktrout Technology Website at http://www.brooktrout.com.

About TransNexus

TransNexus provides Voice and Fax over IP (VoIP) clearing and settlement solutions to network operators offering wholesale, managed IP services. With the TransNexus IP clearinghouse solution, IP network operators can leverage their existing IP network into a wholesale telephony network. The benefits for network operators are increased bandwidth demand derived from wholesale telephony services, premium charges from telephony traffic and a differentiated service that will enables Internet service providers to generate more revenue by offering voice or fax services. The TransNexus clearinghouse solution provides real-time intercarrier call authorization, rating and settlement. The TransNexus solution offers wholesale network operators complete control and pricing of inter-ITSP telephony traffic and can be customized to meet specific operator requirements.

TransNexus 430 Tenth Street, NW Atlanta, GA 30318 T: 404/713-0321, F: 404/872-9515 Email: [e-mail] URL: http://www.transnexus.com