| Zoom Announces
Innovative VoIP Hardware Product
Integrated Phone Adapter
With ADSL Modem, Router, Advanced Firewall, and Four-port
Switch Allows Use of Both Conventional and VoIP Phone Services
Internet Telephony Conference & Expo, Los Angeles,
Booth# 100, October 5, 2004—Zoom Technologies
[NASDAQ: ZOOM],
a leading provider of communications products since 1977,
today announced the
ADSL X5v Model 5585. The Model 5585 integrates a VoIP voice
port with a router, gateway, firewall, ADSL modem and four-port
Ethernet switch into a single low-cost product. Integration
of VoIP capabilities into a full-featured router solves security
issues created by VoIP telephone services, simplifies setup
and lowers the total hardware cost. Zoom’s TelePort
TM feature allows the same phones to be used for either conventional
telephone service or VoIP calls.
The X5v allows customers to choose the features and costs
saving of VoIP calling along with a second phone line that
provides the services and convenience of a conventional phone
connection. Using the TelePort feature, the X5v will automatically
use conventional phone service for 911 emergency dialing,
toll-free number dialing, or in the event of a power failure.
The TelePort also allows conventional phone service to be
used for local calls or any other call the user chooses.
Phones connected to the Model 5585 can originate or answer
both IP and conventional phone calls using the analog line
typically provided with ADSL broadband service. All ZoomTel
products use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), an increasingly
popular Internet protocol designed for VoIP calling and other
communications over the Internet.
“This year’s Internet Telephony conference is a perfect
venue for companies to evangelize and demonstrate the benefits
of VoIP technology and, in our case, the unique Zoom vision,” said
Terry Manning, Zoom’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “While
VoIP adoption continues to grow, many consumers will have
a difficult time parting with their traditional telephone
service due to its reliability and familiarity. The Zoom
Model 5585 addresses this issue head on by allowing consumers
to choose the best of both communications technologies as
they see fit.”
Other features of the Zoom model 5585 include:
- Integrated Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI)
and Network Address Translation (NAT) firewalls
- Integration of the voice processing
with the firewall in the router ensures reliability of
VoIP calls and reduces
service provider support requirements
- An intuitive graphic
user interface
- Compatibility with any operating system that supports
an Internet browser and Java script, including Windows,
Macintosh and Linux
- A USB port, which, along with the four-port switch,
allows up to five computers to plug directly into the Model
5585
- Flash memory that allows easy firmware updates,
including additions to the voice compression codecs
- Multi-national, multi-lingual sales and support
Zoom has priced the Model 5585 where service providers
can offer Voice over IP as a standard feature of the ADSL
hardware
provided to subscribers.
About Zoom Technologies
Zoom Technologies, Inc. designs and produces Voice over
IP Gateways, ADSL modems, cable modems, dial-up modems, Bluetooth
products, and other communications products under the Zoom,
Hayes and Global Village brands. Zoom is headquartered
in
Boston, and its European sales and support center is in
the UK. Zoom markets its products in over forty countries,
and
provides multi-lingual support from its offices in Boston,
Florida, and the UK. For more information about Zoom and
its products, please see: www.zoom.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking information relating
to Zoom's plans, expectations and intentions, including statements
relating to Zoom's introduction of new VoIP products and services,
and the characteristics, advantages and potential success of
such products and services. Actual results may be materially
different from those expectations as a result of known and
unknown risks, including uncertainty of new product development
and introduction, including the risk that newly introduced
products and services may contain undetected errors or defects
or otherwise not perform as anticipated, and other delays in
shipments of products; Zoom's dependence on one or a limited
number of suppliers for certain key components; rapid technological
change; competition; Zoom's initial orders for VoIP products
may not be indicative of future sales; regulatory risks; and
other risks set forth in Zoom's filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission. Zoom cautions readers not to place
undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which
speak only as of the date made. Zoom expressly disclaims any
obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or
revisions to any such statements to reflect any change in the
Zoom's expectations or any change in events, conditions or
circumstance on which any such statement is based.
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