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To: troy halle who wrote (541)	11/13/1997 9:25:00 PM
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Company Press Release TranSwitch and Industry Leaders to Present a Seminar on "Quality of Service (QoS) Issues Related To Internet" Ascend Communications, Orologic Inc., University of Illinois and TranSwitch to be Represented SHELTON, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 1997-- TranSwitch Corp. (NASDAQ: TXCC - news) has announced plans to sponsor and participate in a seminar titled ''Quality of Service (QoS) Issues Related to Internet,'' in conjunction with the grand opening of its new Boston Technology Center. The seminar will be held on Thursday, Nov. 20, 1997 in Marlboro, Mass. Traffic through the Internet facilities is doubling every six months and, as a result, there is a bandwidth bottleneck which is likely to persist for the foreseeable future. ''We believe this can be dealt with only through a pragmatic approach which would require a combination of orderly upgrade of network resources, and a resource allocation policy based on application requirements. Different applications need to be assigned different classes of service and treated accordingly in terms of quality of service (QoS) guarantees, commented Subhash Roy of TranSwitch Corp. who will be the moderator for the seminar. The panel will discuss issues related to guaranteeing QoS over the Internet. The issues to be addressed include: -- ATM vs. I.P. in Internet backbone from the point of cost/performance including QoS. Effect of Access Protocol on QoS. Should QoS concept be extended to access points or even to terminations? -- Others The featured speakers include the following: Ascend Communications Inc [Nasdaq:ASND - news]. Dr. Praveen Goli Orologic Inc. Dr. Raif Onvural University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Bharghavan Vaduvur TranSwitch Corp. Subhash Roy The seminar will be held at the Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel, 181 Boston Post Road West, Marlboro, Mass., on Thursday, Nov. 20, 1997, starting at 8:30 a.m. For immediate registration, please contact Mary Lombardo, TranSwitch Corp., 203/929-8810 or register on line at mary@txc.com. Registrants should include name and company information. Forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including without limitation risks of dependence on third-party VLSI fabrication facilities, intellectual property rights and litigation, risks in technology development and commercialization, risks in product development and market acceptance of and demand for the Company's products, risks of downturns in economic conditions generally, and in the telecommunications and data communications markets and the semiconductor industry specifically, risks associated with competition and competitive pricing pressures, risks associated with foreign sales and high customer concentration and other risks detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Headquartered in Shelton, Conn., TranSwitch Corporation specializes in the design, development and marketing of highly integrated digital and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for the telecommunications and data communications markets. The Company has sold its telecommunications and data communications VLSI devices to more than 300 customers worldwide, including public network, local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN) and cable television (CATV) systems OEMs, as well as government, university and private laboratories. Detailed information on TranSwitch products, news announcements, seminars, service and support is available on TranSwitch's home page at the World Wide Web site - transwitch.com.