Excel Switching Receives Inital Order From Brite Voice for Multi-Year
Carrier Project
HYANNIS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 1998--Excel Switching Corporation (Nasdaq:XLSW - news), today
announced that it has received an initial $2.4 million purchase order from Brite Voice Systems for the first phase of Brite's
recently signed, multi-year contract with a major international long distance carrier. The contract between the carrier and Brite
Voice represents the largest single contract award in Brite's history.
Brite will supply BriteESP-based advanced telecommunications products to the carrier and expects this carrier to purchase
additional products and services over the next four years in accordance with traffic volume and new applications needs. Brite is
a member of the Excel Partner program, and has built its platform on Excel switching technology to give wireless and wireline
service providers a platform that fully supports multi-application, multimedia and multi-network capabilities.
''Our relationship with Excel has been instrumental to the success of our platform. The open architecture of the Excel system
allows Brite to deliver our solutions to the market in a rapid and cost-effective manner,'' said Ray Naeini, Senior Vice
President and General Manager of Brite's Network Products division.
The success of Brite's solutions in the carrier market is the most recent example of how Excel's integrated switching technology
is providing companies with high performance, carrier class systems with the scalability to support a wide range of subscriber
usage. A growing number of network service providers worldwide are incorporating Excel's Expandable Switching System
(EXS), with scalability from 100 to 30,000 non-blocking ports, as their switching platform for both enhanced services and
wireless and wireline infrastructure.
''We are pleased that Brite has chosen to incorporate Excel into its platform for such an important project,'' said Bob
Madonna, President and CEO of Excel Switching Corporation. ''Brite continues to be an example of how Excel partners are
leveraging the industry-leading technology of our open, distributed, programmable switches to provide leadership
communications solutions to customers in the network services market.''
About Excel Switching Corporation
Excel Switching Corporation is a leading provider of open switching platforms for telecommunications networks worldwide.
Excel develops, manufactures, markets and supports a family of open, programmable, carrier-class switches that address the
complex enhanced services and wireless and wireline infrastructure needs of network providers. Excel's products are currently
deployed in telecommunications networks in more than 50 countries throughout the world.
About Brite Voice Systems
Brite is a world leader in providing enhanced telecommunications systems and interactive information systems. Brite's products
include prepaid and enhanced calling card systems for wireless and wireline communications companies, and IVR-CTI for
service companies. The company also provides managed service capabilities for these products as well as telecommunications
management services. Brite's world headquarters are located in Heathrow, Florida, a suburb of Orlando. The company has
offices and facilities worldwide.
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This release may contain statements which are ''forward looking'', subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual
results to differ significantly from expectations. Factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, those
relating to: dependence on and concentration of relationships with application developers, original equipment manufacturers
and systems integrators; length of sales cycle; risk of new product introductions; highly competitive market; compliance with
evolving industry standards; dependence on proprietary rights; and other risks identified in the Company's Securities and
Exchange Commission filings including those risks identified in the section entitled ''Risk Factors'' of the Company's
Registration Statement on Form S-1 (333-35791) and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 27.
1997.
Contact:
Excel Switching Corp.
Karen Steele, (508) 862-3000
ksteele@xl.com
xl.com
or
FitzGerald Communications
Chris Nahil, (617) 494-9500
cnahil@fitzcomm.com |
