zybslaw --
It's good to be reminded that NN has a long list of contract wins. In fact, you inspired me to dig out some key press releases. If anyone wants to read the complete text, go to:
newbridge.com
Major contracts and design wins include, Stentor (consortium of Canada's leading telcos), MCI Communications, Telecom New Zealand, BT (British Telecom), Oleane, the leading Internet Service Provider (France), BC TEL Advanced Communications (British Columbia, CN), Swiss Telecom, GTE Wireless , France Telecom , Korea Telecom , Provincial Telephone Authority of Guangdong (China), Pacific Bell (for FastTrac), U S WEST , among others:
KANATA, Ontario, and MUNICH, Germany, February 2, 1998 -- The Siemens / Newbridge MainStreetXpress 36140 and MainStreetXpress 36144 Multiservices ATM Access Switches were awarded the ComNet '98 New Product Achievement Award in the Switching Technology category. The award recognizes excellence in carrier-level network equipment. The first public demonstration of the two switches, introduced last week by the Siemens / Newbridge Alliance, took place at the ComNet event in Washington, D.C.
HERNDON, Virginia and BOCA RATON, Florida, January 12, 1998 - TeleHub Network Services has selected the industry-leading Siemens / Newbridge MainStreetXpress 36170 Multiservices Switch and MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager for its nationwide asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)-based multiservices network. TeleHub's broadband network will be the first network optimized to deliver switched voice, data and video services over a multiservices platform.
KANATA, Ontario, October 23, 1997 - Stentor, an alliance of Canada's leading telecommunications service providers, has selected the Siemens / Newbridge MainStreetXpressT 48020 MultiNetwork Service Controller (MNSC) to manage Canada's nationwide asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) backbone network built upon the industry-leading MainStreetXpress 36170 Multiservices Switch. The national ATM backbone network will deliver a comprehensive and growing range of services to customers from a single, broadband core network.
Chicago, Illinois, October 22, 1997 - The International Engineering Consortium has awarded the world's first Terabit-class asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switch, the Siemens / Newbridge MainStreetXpress„ 36190 Core Services Switch, with the 1997 InfoVision Award. The award recognizes significant innovations in new products and services, as well as the companies and professionals responsible for their development.
ATLANTA, NetWorld + Interop, October 8, 1997 - Siemens, Newbridge Networks and 3Com Corporation today announced an unprecedented end-to-end solution that enables carriers to provide differentiated Internet Protocol (IP) networking services to enterprise customers. "Carrier Scale InternetworkingT" ("CSI"), developed by Siemens and Newbridge, is the industry's first standards-based architecture for provisioning managed IP Virtual Private Network services that are highly scaleable, reliable, secure and cost-effective. 3Com is collaborating with Siemens and Newbridge to jointly drive the definition and extension of management and service policies for the enterprise within the CSI architecture.
KANATA, Ontario, September 22, 1997 - MCI Communications has selected the industry-leading Siemens / Newbridge MainStreetXpress 36170 Multiservices Switch to serve as the backbone switch for its nationwide asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network. With this contract, MCI extends its leadership among the major service providers throughout the world by implementing a strategy for a single, broadband ATM core network that enables it to seamlessly deliver a comprehensive range of services to its customers from this single network infrastructure.
KANATA, Canada and MUNICH, Germany, September 18, 1997 -- Siemens AG and Newbridge Networks today announced that Telecom New Zealand has selected the MainStreetXpress asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) architecture to construct a national network. The five-year, multi-million dollar supply agreement covers the entire MainStreetXpress product line, the industry's most comprehensive ATM suite of products, including the MainStreetXpress 36170 Multiservices Switch and the MainStreetXpress 36190 Core Services Switch.
KANATA, Canada, MUNICH, Germany, September 3, 1997 -- BT has selected GPT and the Siemens / Newbridge Alliance as the supplier for its new Broadband Multiservice Platform. With this landmark decision, BT becomes the first major service provider to implement a strategy of a single broadband asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) core network. The contract awarded to GPT includes MainStreetXpress switches, customer access equipment and network and service management from the Siemens / Newbridge Alliance and Newbridge Affiliate companies. This network will enable BT to seamlessly deliver a comprehensive range of services to its customers.
KANATA, Ontario, January 26, 1998 - Global networking leaders 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS) and Newbridge Networks Corporation (NYSE: NN) today announced a long-term strategic alliance to meet the ever-increasing needs of enterprise customers and cooperate in the development and deployment of next-generation, end-to-end networks supporting converged voice, video and data applications. The two companies will leverage their complementary strengths in local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) technologies to provide enterprise infrastructures that employ standards-based techniques for network traffic prioritization and policy control. . . .
As part of the worldwide alliance, 3Com will resell the market-leading ATM WAN switching system (the MainStreetXpressT 36170*), as well as leading WAN network management software (the MainStreetXpress 46020) to enable customers to deploy complete, end-to-end networks, including large, private ATM WANs.
KANATA, Ontario, November 13, 1997 - Newbridge Networks today announced it has been selected to supply the networking equipment that will form the main backbone used to connect all voice, video and data systems at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), Malaysia's new airport scheduled to open in January 1998. The airport will be one of the largest and most advanced in the world. The contract was awarded through a three- company consortium comprising Sapura Group of Malaysia, Tomen Corporation of Japan and Harris Corporation of the United States (STH).
KANATA, Ontario, November 11, 1997 - Newbridge Networks today announced it has been selected to supply and install a comprehensive, end-to-end multiservices network to Nauchny Center, a major scientific, research and manufacturing organization based in Zelenograd, near Moscow, in the Russian Federation. The estimated value of this contract is US$25 million.
KANATA, Ontario, October 2, 1997 -- Oleane, the leading Internet Service Provider (ISP) to the corporate market in France, has selected the full range of Newbridger networking systems to optimize its existing network and to build a scalable Internet services network throughout France. Oleane, which is 20 % owned by WorldCom Inc., provides Internet connection services and extranet solutions to more than 2,000 corporate customers in France.
Herndon, Virginia, September 10, 1997 - GoodNet, an Internet Service Provider with National Service Provider (NSP) status, has signed a multi-million dollar contract with Newbridge Networks, a global market leader in wide area network (WAN) asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) equipment. GoodNet will deploy the Siemens / Newbridge MainStreetXpress 36170 Multiservices Switch and the MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager to expand and upgrade its nationwide ATM Internet backbone. GoodNet's rapidly expanding network now extends to over 24 American cities, providing fast, reliable Internet connectivity for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and businesses.
KANATA, Ontario, August 8, 1997 - Newbridge Networks today announced that the Siemens / Newbridge MainStreetXpressT 36170 Multiservices Switch has been selected by BC TEL Advanced Communications and BCnet for the companies' Internet exchange center. Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the network access point (NAP) is one of five such exchange centers in North America and is the first NAP located in Canada.
Kanata, Ontario, June 19, 1997 - Matsushita Communication Industrial Co. (MCI), a major telecommunications equipment supplier based in Japan, and Newbridge Networks Japan today announced the signing of an OEM distribution agreement that will see the companies aggressively pursue the growing wide area asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) market in Japan. The agreement covers the Siemens / Newbridge MainStreetXpress 36150 Access Switch and MainStreetXpress 36170 Multiservices Switch, which were recently chosen as the first equipment registered under the new "Super High Speed" interface category recently created in Japan.
MUNICH, Germany and KANATA, Canada, May 27, 1997 -- Siemens and Newbridge Networks announced that Swiss Telecom has chosen the MainStreetXpress(TM) product line for its new national asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network which provides wide area network (WAN) services and links its city networks in Bern, Basel, Geneva and Zurich. The MainStreetXpress product portfolio, jointly developed by Siemens and Newbridge, provides the flexibility to grow as the network evolves, and the advanced management system provides end-to-end network and services management.
NETWORLD+INTEROP, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 6, 1997 - !NTERPRISE Networking Services, the data integration arm of U S WEST, is demonstrating in booth #5017 at Networld+Interop new capabilities for the rapid provisioning of end-user digital subscriber line (DSL) services over a Newbridge Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) backbone. The Siemens / Newbridge MainStreetXpress 36170 Multiservices Switch, MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager and Connect Exec supply vital components to speed and simplify service provisioning.
Herndon, Virginia, April 14, 1997 -- Newbridge Networks announced today that GTE Wireless, one of the top five wireless companies in the world, has selected the MainStreetXpress 36170 Multiservices Switch for its digital Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) network in the San Francisco Bay area. The switch provides asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)-based high bandwidth links between Mobile Switching Centers (MSCs) that improve call handling efficiency and provide better system performance for GTE's wireless subscribers.
KANATA, Ontario, February 26, 1997 -- France Telecom, the fourth largest telecommunications company in the world, has selected Newbridge Networks as the exclusive supplier for the Transfix Metropolitan Network, a national managed leased-line digital services network being installed to serve business customers throughout France.
KANATA, Ontario, January 23, 1997 -- Korea Telecom (KT), the national telecommunications service provider of Korea and the eighth largest telecommunications company in the world, has selected the Siemens / Newbridge Alliance, through Samsung Electronics, to supply the MainStreetXpress 36170 Multiservices Switch and MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Management System for its national Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network.
KANATA, Ontario, November 6, 1996 -- Newbridge Networks, a leading global supplier of high-capacity networking systems, today announced that it has been selected by the Provincial Telephone Authority of Guangdong, one of the most prosperous provinces in the People's Republic of China, for a US$25 million network expansion to its existing digital data network. The expansion will provide frame relay service over the digital data network as well as network management to enable partitioned network management and control to the province's cities. More than 3,000 Newbridge network nodes have been installed in the PRC since the MainStreet product line was first introduced in 1988.
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Kanata, Ontario, March 26, 1996 - Industry leaders Pacific Bell and Newbridge Networks announced today that Pacific Bell has selected the Newbridge 36170 MainStreet ATMnet Backbone Switch for its new FasTrak SM ATM Cell Relay service.
Pacific Bell is launching the new FasTrak ATM Cell Relay services in mid-1996 in response to increasing customer demand for more extensive broadband services. The new ATM services expand Pacific Bell's ATM cell relay services, which have been in market trials since December of 1993. These trials are based on the Newbridge 36150 MainStreet ATMnet Access Switch. For the new service, Pacific Bell is deploying 36170 MainStreet ATMnet switches throughout its region.
Interop, Atlanta, GA, September 25, 1995 -- !NTERPRISE, the data networking integration arm of U S WEST, and Newbridge Networks announced today a comprehensive upgrade strategy for the !NTERPRISE Fast Packet Network that will mean users can have a seamless migration from frame relay to ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) services. !NTERPRISE is significantly enhancing the infrastructure of its !NTERPRISE Fast Packet Network to position it to provide more comprehensive broadband services to customers in its 14-state region as well as customers nationwide through its affiliate !NTERPRISE America. U S WEST has committed upwards of $30 million to this expansion.
A critical part of this move is the selection of the Newbridge 36170 MainStreet ATMnet Backbone Switch, a highly scalable broadband services platform which supports both ATM and frame relay services from the same platform. The !NTERPRISE platform migration is to start later this year. |
