Excel and XNT Successfully Deploy 8K Port Tandem/International
Gateway Switch
HYANNIS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 1998--Excel Switching Corporation (NASDAQ:XLSW - news)
announced today that XNT Systems, Inc. has successfully deployed Excel's EXS Expandable Switching System for an
international carrier based in metropolitan New York. The carrier is utilizing the system to provide long distance, prepaid, and
calling card services to its rapidly growing customer base, and has taken advantage of Excel's open and scalable architecture
to quickly scale up to its current 8,000 port capacity switch. EXS systems can be configured to support over 30,000
non-blocking ports in a single switch.
XNT Systems delivers the intelligent switch control and comprehensive call processing functions that have allowed the EXS
installation to rapidly grow from a few hundred ports to the 8,000 port capacity system. The distributed switching architecture
of the EXS system enables service providers to offer network based services in a scalable, tightly integrated solution, and to
grow their operations incrementally as their traffic needs require. The XNT/Excel platform in New York has recorded
throughput of over one million minutes per day on this high-reliability switch. With the level of scalability in the platform, the
carrier has been able to quickly and cost effectively enter the market and capture target opportunities, and then seamlessly
grow its capacity while still in service.
XNT Systems has been delivering telecommunication solutions to the long-distance carrier marketplace since 1993 and offers
extensive enhanced services through its Smart Connections modules. XNT also supports highly specialized providers with
operator services modules for both wireless and wireline markets. ''Building on Excel's EXS has enabled us to maximize our
customer's investment through the development of a scalable, robust, high-traffic architecture. Our use of advanced switching
technology is one example of our commitment to the business visions of our customers,'' said Nick Toumpas, President of
XNT.
Excel's ONE Architecture product strategy addresses the growing demand for scalable, multi-service platforms that can
simultaneously support wireline and wireless infrastructure switching as well as multiple enhanced services. ''XNT is one of the
companies at the forefront of bringing competitive infrastructure solutions to service providers,'' said Robert Madonna,
President and CEO of Excel Switching Corporation. ''The XNT deployment in New York is an example of how service
providers are benefiting from Excel's open and scalable architecture.''
About XNT
XNT Systems offers complete turnkey solutions to network operators, enhanced service providers and value added resellers
of operator and directory assistance applications worldwide. XNT has succeeded in developing products based upon
customer requirements in the areas of capacity and functionality. The company has opened new doors of opportunity to its
customers for expansion of their already successful businesses, while offering innovative solutions to broad new market
segments. More information about XNT may be obtained from its website at www.xntsys.com. XNT will be presenting at
Supercomm in Atlanta in June of 1998 and Voice Europe in October.
About Excel
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. The company's products are
currently deployed in telecommunications networks in almost 60 countries throughout the world. Excel has ISO 9001
certification and BABT Full Quality Assurance Approval. Visit Excel's website at xl.com.
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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 (File No. 333-35791) and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
September 27. 1997.
Contact:
XNT
John Herlih
(603) 225-3066
johnh@xntsys.com
or
Excel Switching Corporation
Karen Steele
(508) 862-3145
ksteele@xl.com
or
FitzGerald Communications
Wendy Pickering
(617) 494-9500
wpickering@fitzcomm.com |
