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Monday September 8 8:01 AM EDT
Company Press Release
Excel, Inc. and Brite Voice Systems Enter Strategic
Partnership
HYANNIS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 1997--Excel, Inc. and Brite Voice Systems (Brite) announced today the establishment of a strategic partnership that will allow the two companies to focus on both product and marketing programs.
The agreement establishes Brite as an authorized member of Excel's Partner Program, through which qualified consultants, OEM's, systems integrators and application developers create an alliance for the sales and support of systems utilizing Excel's programmable switches.
Brite, a world leader in the deployment of speech recognition, provides open intelligent platforms and enhanced services for the both the wireless and wireline industries. With its VoiceSelect product, the company holds more than 80% of the worldwide market for voice dialing. Brite's platform utilizes Excel switches to give wireless and wireline service providers a platform which fully supports multiapplication, multimedia and multinetwork capabilities.
Brite's platform allows multiple applications to execute from any of the available telephony ports,efficiently utilizing available hardware resources. Through the call transfer and management services
of the Excel switching system Brite's platform supports: call transfer; call progress analysis and teleconferencing; and T1 and E1 interfaces supporting Feature Group-D, R1/R2, SS7 and
ISDN/PRI signaling.
Other Brite solutions utilizing Excel's programmable switches include prepaid services, voice messaging, computer telephony and interactive voice response applications, short message and single-number services, fax mail, audiotex, and financial telemanagement.
``Excel is very pleased to announce our partnership with Brite,'' said Tony Agostinelli, Director of Marketing Programs for Excel, Inc. ``Brite's worldwide presence, multi-application offering, and
commitment to open industry standards are a strong strategic fit with Excel's product and market direction in enhanced service platforms.'' Tim Walsh, Managing Director of North America for Brite
Voice Systems, said, ``The flexibility, scalability, and performance of Excel's products are ideally positioned for the Brite's products. We hope to extend our market leadership in the deployment of
these multi-application solutions worldwide through a strong technology and marketing relationship with Excel.''
About Excel, Inc.
Excel, Inc. is the leading provider of programmable switch technology. The company designs, manufactures, markets and supports a family of open architecture, programmable switches deployed in over 50 countries in a wide variety of telecommunications applications. Excel's programmable switches are used in Advanced Intelligent Networks (AIN), Personal Communications Services and Networks (PCS/PCN), wireless and wireline service provisioning, a wide variety of enhanced services, and service bureau operations. Founded in 1988, Excel is based in Hyannis, MA.
About Brite Voice Systems
Brite Voice Systems serves the fastest growing market in the world: telecommunications. Every day millions of people use Brite's information and communications products and services to save time,
stay informed and simplify daily tasks. Brite technology reaches customers through services offered by Brite's direct customers: wireless and wireline carriers, financial and health- care institutions, public utilities, telephone companies and many others. Brite helps those organizations generate new revenues or cut costs - or both - while adding value for current and future clients. With international headquarters in Orlando, Florida, Brite has operations throughout the U.S., Europe and worldwide. Brite is traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange as BVSI.
Contact:
Excel, Inc.
Karen Steele, 508/862-3145
ksteele@xl.com
website: www.xl.com
or
Brite Voice Systems
Marlene Frith, 407/357-1028
marlene.frith@brite.com
website: www.brite.com
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