Excel Switching Corp. Partners with Telemedia To
Deliver Advanced Telecommunications Solutions
Worldwide
Telemedia Offers Enhanced Service Solution Based on Excel's EXS Switching Platform
HYANNIS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 1999-- Excel Switching Corporation (Nasdaq:XLSW - news), a
leading provider of open switching platforms for telecommunications networks worldwide, announced today that Telemedia
Networks International Limited, a provider of innovative telecommunications systems and consulting services worldwide to
network operators and infrastructure manufacturers, is the newest member of Excel's Partner Program. Telemedia is Excel's
first partner and developer in the New Zealand/Australia region.
Telemedia develops and resells turnkey solutions for enhanced service applications and services to telecom operators
worldwide. The company delivers services such as prepaid calling, voice messaging, call center solutions and intelligent
network platforms. By integrating its applications with Excel's open switching platform, Telemedia can customize offerings to
provide enhanced services based on specific customer demands. With EXS, Telemedia delivers an open, scalable network
solution that can support diverse global signaling protocols which helps lower increasing costs and time to market.
Most recently, Telemedia was responsible for integrating, installing and testing a tandem switching solution for CallPlus, a New
Zealand based Long Distance Carrier (IXC). Because Telemedia based its solution on Excel's EXS programmable switching
system, it enabled CallPlus to pass Telecom New Zealand's Signalling System Number 7 (SS7) conformance testing in a
record four days. (see related Jan. 4, 1999 announcement Excel Switching Provides Carrier-Class Switching Solution for New
Zealand's CallPlus Telephony Services)
''We look forward to working with our newest partner, Telemedia, to deliver solutions to meet the needs of global
telecommunications customers,'' said Robert Madonna, president and CEO of Excel Switching Corp. ''Telemedia's extensive
global reach will help bring cost-effective, customized solutions to carriers around the world. By combining Telemedia's
applications and services with Excel's switching solution, carriers will be able to bring those solutions to market faster.''
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 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 potential acquisitions, dependence on and concentration of relationships with application developers, original
equipment manufacturers and systems integrators; length of sales cycle; risk of new product introductions; 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 Annual Report for the year ended December 27, 1997 on
Form 10-K, as amended.
Product and service names used within this release are trademarks, registered trademarks and service marks of their
respective owners.
Contact:
Excel Switching Corp.
Erica Robinson, (508) 862-3000
erobinson@xl.com
or
FitzGerald Communications
Jennifer Falcone, (617) 494-9500
jfalcone@fitzcomm.com |
