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EXHIBIT 3
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                        AMENDED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                             CINTECH SOLUTIONS, INC.

FIRST:   NAME.  The name of this Corporation shall be CINTECH SOLUTIONS, INC.

SECOND:  PRINCIPAL OFFICE.  The place in Ohio where the principal office of the
Corporation is to be located is Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio.

THIRD:   PURPOSE.  The purpose or purposes for which the Corporation is formed
are:

                  (a)      Development and marketing of hardware and software
                           products for the tele-communication industry.

                  (b)      To carry on any other lawful business and to do
                           anything and everything necessary, suitable and
                           convenient and proper for the accomplishment of any
                           of the purposes or the attainment of the objects
                           herein enumerated or incident to the powers herein
                           named; and to have all rights, powers and privileges
                           now or hereafter conferred by the laws of the State
                           of Ohio upon private corporations organized under the
                           General Corporation Law of Ohio.

                  (c)      Further, by way of example, to do any and all things
                           permitted to an Ohio corporation, in Ohio and
                           elsewhere by virtue of Ohio Revised Code Section
                           1701.13, either in its present form or, if it be
                           re-enacted to enlarge the powers of corporations, in
                           such broader form or forms.

                  (d)      Without limitation on the generality of the foregoing
                           authorizations by reason of this specification, the
                           corporation may borrow money, without limitation on
                           the amount or terms thereof and, in respect of any
                           such indebtedness, may issue such instruments
                           evidencing such borrowing and enter into such
                           commitments and contracts in respect thereof as may
                           be approved from time to time by the Board of
                           Directors of the corporation.

FOURTH:           SHARES. The number of shares which the Corporation is
                  authorized to have outstanding is Fifteen Million (15,000,000)
                  shares of common stock without par value. Each share of common
                  stock without par value heretofore issued and outstanding is
                  hereby changed into Eighty three Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty
                  Seven (83,757) shares of common stock without par value.

FIFTH:            ACQUISITION OF OWN SHARES. When authorized by the affirmative
                  vote of a majority of the Board of Directors, without the
                  action or approval of the shareholders of this Corporation,
                  this Corporation may redeem, purchase, or contract to
                  purchase, at any time and from time to time, shares of any
                  class issued by this Corporation for such prices and upon and
                  subject to such terms and conditions as the Board of Directors
                  may determine; subject, however, to limitations of applicable
                  law.



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SIXTH:            PRE-EMPTIVE RIGHTS. No holder of any share or shares of any
                  class issued by the Corporation shall be entitled as such, as
                  a matter of right, at any time, to subscribe for or purchase
                  (i) shares of any class issued by the Corporation, now or
                  hereafter authorized, (ii) securities of the Corporation
                  convertible into or exchangeable for shares of any class
                  issued by the Corporation, now or hereafter authorized, or
                  (iii) securities of the Corporation to which shall attach or
                  appertain any rights or options, whether by the terms of such
                  securities or in the contracts, warrants or other instruments
                  (whether transferrable or non-transferrable or separable or
                  inseparable from such securities) evidencing such rights or
                  options, entitling the holder thereof to subscribe for or
                  purchase shares of any class issued by the Corporation, now or
                  hereafter authorized; it being the intent and is the effect of
                  this Article Sixth to fully eliminate any and all pre-emptive
                  rights with respect to the shares of securities of any class
                  issued by the Corporation now or hereafter authorized.

SEVENTH:          MAJORITY VOTE. Notwithstanding any provisions in the Ohio
                  General Corporation Law requiring for any purpose the vote,
                  consent, waiver or release of the holders of greater than a
                  majority (but less than all) of the shares of the Corporation
                  or of any particular class or of each class, for such purpose
                  the vote, consent, waiver, or release of the holders of the
                  majority of the shares of the Corporation or of such
                  particular class, or of each such class, shall control.