Excel Switching's ONE Architecture EXS Platform to be Integrated into an Enhanced Service Platform from Lucent Technologies
HYANNIS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 1998--Excel Switching Corporation (Nasdaq:XLSW - news), a leading provider of open switching platforms for telecommunications networks worldwide, announced today that it has entered into a multi-year OEM contract with Lucent Technologies Octel Messaging Division (NYSE:LU - news), headquartered in Milpitas, Calif. Lucent intends to integrate Excel's programmable solution, the ONE Architecture(tm) Expandable Switching System (EXS), into a future enhanced voice messaging services platform, offering carriers an advanced service solution.
Excel's EXS platform will provide Lucent with reliable and scaleable switching functionality for its enhanced services platform at a low cost. Because the EXS platform is programmable, the intelligence of the application supplied by Lucent can reside in an external host application. In addition, the switch will allow Lucent to easily connect to heterogeneous networks by acting as a network interface unit.
''We are pleased that Lucent has chosen Excel's ONE Architecture EXS as the platform on which to deploy its planned enhanced services,'' said Robert Madonna, president and CEO of Excel. ''One of Excel's key advantages in the enhanced service market -- a programmable switching solution that is scaleable, flexible and based on industry standards -- can now be leveraged by Lucent to offer its customers a feature-rich solution that will adapt to changing market demands.''
The flexibility of the EXS solution will allow carriers to customize their offerings by providing additional services on Lucent's future enhanced services platform, allowing carriers to generate additional revenue while providing more value-added services to customers.
''We are pleased to be working with Excel to integrate the switching capability we need to deploy a reliable enhanced services platform to our customers,'' said J. Kim Fennell, senior vice president and general manager, Service Provider Messaging Group, Lucent Octel Messaging Division. ''Because voice messaging is an important service for carriers, it was important that we chose a flexible and scaleable solution to accommodate the changing needs of our customers.''
About ONE Architecture
ONE Architecture defines Excel's strategic technology framework for its state-of-the-art Expandable Switching System (EXS). It enables carriers and developers to integrate network routing, enhanced services and media support on a single, highly-scalable switching platform. With its product and services, Excel provides a scalable network solution regardless of legacy signaling protocols, switching capacity, or billing and subscriber services offered from the PSTN (Public Switch Telephone Network) switch.
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 approximately 60 countries throughout the world. Visit Excel's website at xl.com.
This release may contain statements which are ''forward looking,'' and is 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 Excel's dependence on and concentration of relationships with application developers, original equipment manufacturers and systems integrators; possible delayed or lengthy sales cycles; risks associated with new product introductions; Excel's dependence on its 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 Annual Report for the year ended December 27, 1997 on Form 10-K, as amended. Product and service names used within are trademarks, registered trademarks and service marks of their respective owners.
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