contract announcement:
Singapore Telecom Awards Newbridge Networks Contract Valued
at Over $35 Million to Construct a
High-Performance, Multi-services network
Network Expansion to Meet Surging Demand for Advanced Data
Communications Solutions
KANATA, Ontario, June 30, 1998 * Newbridge Networks has been
awarded a contract valued at over $35 million by Singapore
Telecom (SingTel) to supply advanced asynchronous transfer
mode (ATM) and time division multiplexing (TDM) systems for
the construction of a high-performance, flexible, broadband
multi-services network. Over the next three years, Newbridge
will be supplying SingTel with internetworking technology
that will enable the telecommunications carrier to meet the
surging demand for data networking capacity in Singapore and
other countries in the Asia Pacific region, and offer a wide
assortment of innovative data services to its customers.
The contract awarded to Newbridge also includes O*Connor*s
Singapore Pte Ltd., a leading Singapore-based system
integrator and long-time distributor of Newbridge products.
O*Connor*s will be providing its system integration and
project management expertise.
The high-capacity, multi-services ATM network, which is
scheduled to begin operating by the fourth quarter of 1998,
will be based on the Siemens / Newbridge MainStreetXpress*
36170 Multiservices Switch, a high-capacity multi-service,
multi-access platform, designed to support applications such
as native cell relay, frame relay, circuit emulation,
high-speed local area network (LAN) internetworking and
Internet Protocol (IP).
The network will be managed end-to-end by the
industry-leading MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager. The
MainStreetXpress 46020 system enables operators to fully
manage and configure the network end-to-end using
point-and-click path and parameter configuration. Operators
can remotely configure nodes, monitor real-time operations,
set up and manage path routes, and isolate and manage
conditions that may alter the network*s efficiency.
The Newbridger solution, which also includes the Company*s
TDM equipment, will enable SingTel to provide a wide range
of advanced data services, including low and high-speed
leased-line circuits over ATM, digital cross connect
functionality, frame relay and cell relay services,
broadcast quality MPEG video, and managed IP services.
"SingTel*s commitment to upgrade its core network to a more
powerful, robust broadband ATM infrastructure will enable
the company to meet the ever-increasing customer demand for
fully integrated solutions, including IP-based data
applications such as Internet, intranet and extranet
traffic, both now and in the future," said Ricky Ma,
Managing Director, South-East Asia, Newbridge Networks.
The highly scalable and flexible MainStreetXpress 36170
Multiservices Switch, the best-selling ATM switch in the
industry, provides carriers with the functionality they
require, such as a fully redundant switching fabric,
hot-swappable interface cards, permanent and switched
virtual circuits, a wide variety of interfaces, and advanced
traffic management capabilities.
The MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager software is
simple to operate, using intuitive graphical user interfaces
(GUI), providing configuration management, software
downloading, service provisioning, fault diagnostics,
traffic simulations, statistics, reports and inventory
management.
Newbridge Networks (NYSE: NN; TSE: NNC) designs,
manufactures, markets and services networking solutions to
organizations in more than 100 countries. Newbridge
leverages its relationship with 16 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.
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Newbridge, logo are registered trademarks of Newbridge
Networks Corporation.
MainStreetXpress is a trademark used by the Siemens /
Newbridge alliance for comprehensive solutions in broadband
communication. No agency relationship, partnership, or
joint ownership of a legal entity is to be inferred or
implied by the use of the term alliance.
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