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Excel Switching Corporation is the market leader in programmable switching technologies. Excel designs, manufactures, markets, and supports a family of open architecture programmable switches used in a wide variety of telecommunications applications in over 50 countries worldwide.
The company xl.com has achieved significant success since its inception. Sales have grown in excess of 50 percent per year for the past 5 years, providing a continuous revenue stream and consistent growth. Looking forward, the company is targeting an expanding number of new applications and services for the telecommunications marketplace.
Excel Switching makes open switching platforms for telecommunications networks. The firm's products are used in about 50 countries and are designed with distributed architecture and open software that allow them to be integrated with different computer systems, operating systems, and application development environments. Excel markets its products, which are manufactured at its plant in Massachusetts, to application developers, OEMs, and systems integrators through its sales force. Customers include Boston Technology (the company's largest customer), Ericsson Messaging Systems, MCI, Priority Call Management, and QUALCOMM. Founder and CEO Robert Madonna owns almost 86% of Excel Switching.
The Company sells to a variety of customers in the worldwide
telecommunications market, including application developers, original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs") and systems integrators. These customers include Boston Technology, Inc., Brite Voice Systems, Inc., Ericsson Messaging Systems Inc., Glenayre Technologies, Inc., IEX Corporation, MCI Communications Corporation, Octel Communications Corporation, Phoenix Wireless Group, Inc., Priority Call Management, Inc., QUALCOMM Incorporated and WorldCom, Inc. Excel's customers integrate the Company's open, programmable switching platforms with their product offerings to address a variety of market applications for network providers, ranging from enhanced services such as voice messaging, one number services and prepaid debit cards, to wireless and wireline infrastructure services such as tandem switching, mobile switching centers and intelligent base station controllers. Network providers which have installed Excel's
products include AT&T Corp., Ameritech Corporation, Bell Atlantic Corporation, BellSouth Corporation, British Telecommunications plc, GTE Corporation, MCI Communications Corporation, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Pacific Bell, Sprint Corporation, Telstra Corporation Ltd., Time Warner Inc. and WorldCom, Inc. |
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