Excel Switching Hosts Live Multi-Vendor Booth Demonstration
Demonstrates Integrated VoIP and Voice/Fax Processing
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 1998--CT EXPO BOOTH #1617--Excel Switching Corporation
(NASDAQ:XLSW - news), a leading provider of open switching platforms for telecommunications networks worldwide, will
demonstrate (Booth #1617) how industry-leading products and services from a wide variety of vendors can be integrated into
Excel's ONE Architecture. ONE Architecture enables carriers and developers to integrate network routing, enhanced services
and media support on a single, highly scalable platform.
In a live, multi-booth demonstration, Excel's ONE Architecture will bring together industry leaders Brooktrout (Booth #1801),
Dialogic (Booth #1215), Microsoft (Booth #1911), Natural MicroSystems (Booth #1601), and Priority Call Management
(Booth #1330). The demonstration will highlight the simultaneous, seamless interconnection of voice and media processing with
telco-grade switching solutions. In the demonstration, voice over internet protocol (VoIP) and voice/fax processing
sub-systems will be integrated into Excel's Expandable Switching System (EXS). Also, using its one-number service and voice
mail platform, Priority Call Management will integrate Dialogic voice processing boards into the EXS via Excel's EXNET
Connect.
Excel's ONE Architecture product strategy addresses the growing demand for scalable, multi-service platforms that can
simultaneously support wireline and wireless infrastructure switching as well as multiple enhanced services. Excel does this by
merging its open call processing environment with industry standard S.100 compatible media service APIs to create a single,
integrated service platform.
''Traditionally, multiple switches were required to address different enhanced services needs,'' said Robert Madonna,
chairman and chief executive officer. ''For the first time, these services can be integrated into one switching platform. ONE
Architecture's capabilities can set a new standard for network-based solutions.''
About ONE Architecture
ONE Architecture extends Excel's PPL technology and EXNET Connect technology to create a fully programmable, highly
reliable distributed switching environment. With ONE Architecture, application developers can design multiple, tightly
integrated applications that can be implemented in a distributed fashion. This flexibility makes it easy to expand existing
networks and services to include new enhanced voice and data capabilities. ONE Architecture can provide carriers with lower
platform costs and improved time to market.
About Excel
Excel Switching Corporation is a leading provider of open switching platforms for telecommunications networks worldwide.
The company 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. The Company's
products are currently deployed in telecommunications networks in almost 60 countries throughout the world. Excel Switching
Corporation is headquartered at 255 Independence Drive, Hyannis, Massachusetts, 02601. Visit the Excel Switching website
at xl.com.
This release may contain statements which are ''forward looking'', 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: dependence on and concentration of relationships with application developers, original equipment manufacturers
and systems integrators; length of sales cycle; risk of new product introductions; highly competitive market; compliance with
evolving industry standards; 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
Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-35791) and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
September 27, 1997.
Industry Partner Feedback
Brooktrout
''Brooktrout customers creating carrier-class enhanced services platforms and IP/voice & fax gateways with Brooktrout TR
Series products will be excited by this demonstration,'' said Andrew O'Brien, Brooktrout's Vice President of Marketing and
Business Development. ''Excel's ONE Architecture can dramatically simplify development and lower deployment cost of these
applications.''
Dialogic Corporation
''This is a great example of how Dialogic's customers can develop highly scaleable applications for use in the public network'',
says John Alfieri, vice president, Sales and Services, Dialogic Corporation. ''By using our H.323 standards based Internet
Telephony and Network Interface technology based on DM3 and the EXNET Connect product from Excel, the overall
market for scaleable, telco-grade solutions will definitely be expanded and everybody wins.''
Natural MicroSystems
''The seamless integration of packet- and circuit-switched media by two market leaders, Excel's programmable switch and
Natural MircoSystems' Fusion IP telephony gateway, is a big win for service providers,'' said Allen Carney, vice president of
marketing and business development at Natural MicroSystems. ''The quality, scalability, and programmability of this integrated
platform creates tremendous new revenue opportunities for service providers in the increasingly competitive
telecommunications market.''
Priority Call Management
''The EXNET Connect technology will allow us to build very large, distributed ORYX platforms for the delivery of enhanced
services in rapidly growing networks. This is a critical requirement for success in the global marketplace where prepaid,
messaging, and one number services are deployed to huge subscriber populations,'' said Andrew D. Ory, Founder and Chief
Executive Officer, Priority Call Management.
Contact:
FitzGerald Communications
Chris Nahil, 617/494-9500
cnahil@fitzcomm.com
OR
Excel Switching Corp.
Karen Steele, 508/862-3000
steele@xl.com |
