Company Press Release
SOURCE: Newbridge Networks Corporation
MainStreetXpress(TM) 36140 And 36144 Multiservices ATM
Access Switches Earn ComNet '98 New Product Achievement
Award
Siemens / Newbridge Alliance Honored for Second Consecutive Year
KANATA, Ont., and MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 2 /CNW-PRN/ - The Siemens / Newbridge
MainStreetXpress(TM) 36140 and MainStreetXpress 36144 Multiservices ATM Access Switches were
awarded the ComNet '98 New Product Achievement Award in the Switching Technology category. The
award recognizes excellence in carrier-level network equipment. The first public demonstration of the
two switches, introduced last week by the Siemens / Newbridge Alliance, took place at the ComNet event
in Washington, D.C.
Designed for use as customer-premises or carrier-access equipment, the MainStreetXpress 36140 and
36144 switches, with 11 and five slots, respectively, enable the consolidation of multiple types of traffic
for transport over an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network. Their multiservice capabilities provide
support for ATM, leased line, frame relay, Switched Multimegabit Data Services Data Exchange Interface
(SMDS DXI), and local area network (LAN) interfaces. The high-capacity access switches offer a
non-blocking throughput of 2 Gbit/s and are fully redundant to assure high availability. As with all
MainStreetXpress products, both are fully manageable by the MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager
and MainStreetXpress 45020 Element Manager.
This is the second consecutive year the Siemens / Newbridge Alliance, formed in March 1996, has been
honored at ComNet. The MainStreetXpress 36190 Core Services Switch earned the ComNet '97 New
Product Achievement Award in the infrastructure category.
''The award continues to validate not only the work of more than 2,000 Newbridge and Siemens
engineers worldwide but the alliance model itself,'' said Conrad Lewis, Executive Vice President
Marketing and Product Management, Newbridge Networks Corporation. ''The alliance has and will
continue to maximize our capabilities to deliver the industry's most advanced ATM solutions to our
customers.''
''These two new switches offer carriers and customers highly flexible and affordable access solutions,''
said Thomas Rambold, President, Broadband Networks, Public Communication Networks Group of
Siemens AG [OTC BB:SMAWY - news]. ''They are valuable additions to our industry-leading broadband
product line, as demonstrated by this award.''
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 2,000
engineers in six countries. In North America, Siemens Public Communication Networks Group is
represented by its subsidiary, Siemens Telecom Networks, Boca Raton, Florida.
''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''. |
