NN Designs Global Services Management Platform for New AT&T Service
Tuesday May 5, 10:30 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
LAS VEGAS, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 1998--(TSE:NNC. - news; NYSE:NN -
news) Industry-leading Newbridge platforms to integrate private line, frame relay and ATM
transport into single, end-to-end managed solution
NETWORLD + INTEROP - In a demonstration of leadership in scalable, end-to-end service
management and reliable networking platforms, Newbridge Networks today announced that
AT&T Corp. has begun the deployment of the Company's MainStreet(R) and
MainStreetXpress(TM) management and access products in the AT&T Managed Bandwidth
Service (MBS) offering (see related AT&T announcement). The Newbridge(R) Global Services
Management Platform (GSMP) has been designed for the global reach and extensive scope of the
AT&T Managed Bandwidth Service. AT&T Managed Bandwidth Service brings together the
strengths of AT&T private line, frame relay and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) service
offering with the power of the Newbridge GSMP and networking equipment into a single managed
solution for corporate network voice, image, video and data traffic requirements.
Introduced at Telecom '95 in Geneva, the Newbridge GSMP is a fully managed and integrated set
of networking products selected from the Newbridge product portfolio optimized to deliver
advanced standards-based global service offerings. GSMP enables carriers to provide many
thousands of corporate network customers a full, end-to-end view of their global networks
encompassing private line, frame relay and ATM services, including key parameters such as
configuration, network status, Service Level Agreement and performance reporting, as well as
unprecedented visibility of network bandwidth resources down to the slot, card, or port level.
''By deploying Newbridge equipment and GSMP customized for AT&T, AT&T Managed
Bandwidth Services offers the industry's most comprehensive suite of managed, end-to-end,
reconfigurable bandwidth services and provides corporate network customers an unprecedented
on-line view of these services on a global basis,'' said Bill Callahan, Services Director, AT&T
Managed Network Solutions.
''AT&T MBS unleashes the power of two leaders in their respective industries. The explosion of
the managed network services, network integration and outsourcing industry is testimony to our
vision of multiservice, multi-fabric and multi-administrator global services management,'' said
Terence Matthews, Chairman and CEO, Newbridge Networks. ''With its reach and breadth of
scope of its managed network service offering, AT&T is the undisputed leader of this high-growth
industry. I am pleased that AT&T has selected the Newbridge solution set for its aggressive global
deployment plans for MBS.''
This solution set includes the 3600 and 3645 MainStreet bandwidth management products and the
MainStreetXpress(TM) 36170 Multiservices Switch, 36150 Access Switch, 36100 Access
Concentrator, and 36035/75 Local Area Network Service Units. The family of network and
service management systems includes the MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager, 45020
Element Manager, 48020 Multinetwork Service Controller, 56020 Routing Services Control
Point, Connext Exec, and Customer Service Management.
AT&T Corp. is the world's premier communications and information services company, serving
more than 90 million customers, including consumers, businesses and government. The company
has annual revenues of more than $52 billion and 130,000 employees. It runs the world's largest,
most sophisticated communications network and is the leading provider of long-distance and
wireless services. AT&T operates in more than 200 countries and territories around the world.
Newbridge Networks (NYSE:NN - news; TSE:NNC - news) designs, manufactures, markets
and services total networking solutions to organizations in more than 100 countries. Newbridge
leverages its relationship with 15 Affiliate companies, and strategic alliances with Siemens and
3Com Corporation to deliver seamless, end-to-end solutions. Newbridge customers include the
world's 250 largest telecommunications service providers and more than 10,000 corporations,
government organizations and other institutions. Founded in 1986, the company employs more
than 6,000 people on five continents. News and information are available at www.newbridge.com.
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.
Contact:
Newbridge Networks Corporation
Media: Paul Goyette, 613/591-3600
E-Mail: paul_goyette@newbridge.com
or
Newbridge Networks Corporation
Industry Analysts: Lisa Pittenger, 703/736-5852
E-Mail: lisa_pittenger@us.newbridge.com
or
Newbridge Networks Corporation
Financial Analysts: John Lawlor, 613/591-3600
E-Mail: john_lawlor@qmail.newbridge.com
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