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To: MangoBoy who wrote (264)	4/18/2000 11:03:00 AM
From: Bruce Byall	Respond to of 266

GDC Develops Joint Offering with AT&T Canada to Support Canada's First Bandwidth-on-Demand Service MIDDLEBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2000--Canada's first bandwidth-on-demand service for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks will result from a joint offering between AT&T Canada Inc. and General DataComm Industries, Inc. (NYSE: GDC - news). The new service integrates business voice and data traffic over a single network connection often resulting in significant cost savings for the customer. ``Customers typically have one network for voice and another network for data. At any given time, neither network is working at 100 percent capacity. Our approach is better since we integrate voice and data into a single traffic stream at the customer's location,' explained Douglas Westlund, vice president - marketing for AT&T Canada. ``The pay-per-use approach is far less costly for the customer especially in bursty high-bandwidth applications,' Westlund added. The converged service is the first to use AT&T Canada's recently announced ATM service using Switched Virtual Circuits (SVC's). SVC's offer customers the ability to define for themselves the bandwidth, destination and duration of their communications sessions and determine their Quality of Service (QoS) level requirements on a per-call basis. ``We are extremely pleased to have the opportunity to work with AT&T Canada and use the GDC platform for convergence of their voice and data service. We look forward to expanding our relationship with AT&T Canada as they introduce MPEG-2 video services to further serve the requirements of the Canadian marketplace,' said Chris McKenzie, president of GDC Ltd., the Canadian subsidiary of General DataComm Industries, Inc. When the traffic stream enters the network, customers pay for bandwidth as it is used. The SVC capability in the network enables the converged service to be introduced with very competitive usage rates. Rates are based on a combination of four factors, all controlled by the customer: 1. Class of service selected per call; 2. Committed Information Rate requested by the user per call; 3. Time duration of the call; and 4. Time of day discounts. Equipped with award-winning GDC APEX© ATM technology, the convergence platform offers QoS assurance with highly efficient bandwidth management. The result is reduced network complexity and higher reliability for customers. biz.yahoo.com