Monday September 22 9:03 AM EDT
Company Press Release
MCI Selects Siemens / Newbridge MainStreetXpress 36170
Multiservices Switch For Broadband Multiservices Network
KANATA, Ont., Sept. 22 /CNW-PRN/ - MCI Communications has selected the industry-leading
Siemens / Newbridge MainStreetXpress(TM) 36170 Multiservices Switch to serve as the backbone
switch for its nationwide asynchronous transfer node (ATM) network. With this contract, MCI
extends its leadership among the major service providers throughout the world by implementing a
strategy for a single, broadband ATM core network that enables it to seamlessly deliver a
comprehensive range of services to its customers from this single network infrastructure.
MCI, the nation's premier provider of high-speed data and Internet service, will deploy
MainStreetXpress switches to deliver key network-based services, including: vBNS, the National
Science Foundation network which also supports Internet2; commercial backbone traffic; and
MCI's Switched Multi-Megabit Data Services (SMDS).
In addition to MainStreetXpress 36170 Multiservices Switches, Newbridge will supply MCI with
network management capabilities through the MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager, the
MainStreetXpress 45020 Element Manager and MainStreetXpress Connect Exec. MCI will deploy
MainStreetXpress Connect Exec, a TMN/CMIP-compliant interface, to automate service
provisioning by integrating the MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager to its existing
operational support and provisioning system.
The MainStreetXpress 36170 switch's broad range of interfaces and service offering capabilities -
including cell relay, frame relay, advanced private line, LAN internetworking and Internet Protocol
(IP) - enables MCI to enhance the performance of its services and the availability of its ATM
service by consolidating multiple networks and services over a single network backbone. The
industry's only true multiservices platform, the MainStreetXpress 36170 switch offers interfaces
ranging from sub T1 speeds to OC12, growing to OC48, and features such as ATM
Forum-compliant Inverse Multiplexing over ATM (IMA), switched virtual circuits (SVCs) and,
with MainStreetXpress management capabilities, usage-based billing. It scales from 800 Mbit/s to
over 50 Gbit/s and more than 6,000 T1 ATM, frame relay or circuit emulation ports per system.
``By selecting the Siemens / Newbridge Alliance solution for carrier networks, MCI will benefit
from a seamless evolutionary approach to a managed, broadband multiservices infrastructure,'' said
Terence Matthews, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Newbridge Networks. ``We see MCI's
selection of the Alliance solution as further affirmation of the growing strength and success of the
Siemens / Newbridge Alliance and a strong endorsement by one of the world's leading and most
innovative carriers of the Alliance vision for multiservices broadband networks based on a unifying
ATM fabric.''
This success follows the recent announcements by MCI strategic partners BT (British Telecom), the
Stentor telecommunications service provider companies in Canada, and Telenordia that they, too,
had selected the Siemens / Newbridge Alliance ATM solution set.
Siemens Public Communication Networks Group (Munich, Germany) and Newbridge Networks
(Kanata, Canada), two of the world leaders in ATM, formed a strategic networking Alliance in
1996 to provide carriers worldwide with the most comprehensive and advanced ATM solution set.
With this agreement, the two companies have unified their ATM product lines under the
MainStreetXpress brand and assembled the industry's most extensive ATM research and
development operation - more than 1,700 engineers in five countries. In North America, Siemens
Public Communication Networks Group is represented by Siemens Stromberg-Carlson, Boca
Raton, Fla.
Newbridge, logo are registered trademarks of Newbridge Networks
Corporation.
MainStreetXpress is a trademark used exclusively by Siemens AG and Newbridge Networks
Corporation under license for their comprehensive solutions in broadband communications. No
agency relationship, partnership, or joint ownership of a legal entity is to be inferred or implied by
the use of the term alliance.
SOURCE Newbridge Networks Corporation |
