Monday March 2, 7:01 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
ITC-DeltaCom Selects Ascend Multiservice CBX 500 ATM
Switches and Navis Service Management Products
Ascend products will lower costs, ramp existing business and enable new
services
ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 1998-- Ascend Communications, Inc.
(NASDAQ:ASND - news) today announced that ITC-DeltaCom (NASDAQ:ITCD - news) will
deploy Ascend's CBX 500 Multiservice ATM switch to scale its existing B-STDX 9000 Frame
Relay network and position itself for providing ATM service offerings.
The West Point, GA-based interexchange carrier, which is an emerging Competitive Local Exchange
Carrier (CLEC), also will purchase Ascend's NavisCore and NavisXtend network management
products including the NavisXtend Statistics, Report, Provisioning, Fault, and Customer Network
Management servers. It will deploy both Ascend CBX 500 Multiservice ATM and B-STDX 9000
Multiservice Frame Relay switches to expand its network geographically, stay ahead of the growth
of its current enhanced data customers and add more redundancy and processing power to facilitate
the delivery of additional features and services. ITC-DeltaCom currently has owned and operated
networks throughout ten southern states in the US.
''In addition to providing guaranteed Quality of Service, the CBX 500 delivers carrier-class features
such as seamless integration with the B-STDX 9000, cost-effectiveness, and reliability which are
essential for growing our data service offering,'' said Steve Moses, Senior Vice President of
Network Services, ITC-DeltaCom. ''End-to-end service management also was a critical deciding
factor for us. With their client/server architecture and open interfaces, the NavisXtend servers will
allow us to dramatically reduce operational costs thereby making our services more competitive.''
ITC-DeltaCom currently is offering Frame Relay data services from its existing B-STDX 9000
network. Some of the company's business communications services include local exchange service,
long distance, enhanced data, Internet, and operator services, and the sale and maintenance of
customer premise equipment. The company will use the CBX 500 and NavisXtend products to
grow this network and offer new services including enhanced Frame Relay, reporting, billing and
ATM, among others.
''We are pleased to build upon our current relationship with ITC DeltaCom,'' said Dan Smith,
Ascend Executive Vice President and General Manager, Core Systems Division. ''This purchase
further reaffirms our leading position in supplying backbone ATM and Frame Relay networks to the
service provider market.''
ITC-DeltaCom has begun deploying the Ascend CBX 500 and Navis management products. It
expects to complete deployment during the first quarter of this year.
About Ascend Communications
Ascend Communications, Inc. develops, manufactures and sells wide area networking solutions for
telecommunications carriers, Internet service providers and corporate customers worldwide. For
more information about Ascend and its products, please visit the Ascend web site at
www.ascend.com, or send e-mail to info@ascend.com.
Ascend is headquartered at One Ascend Plaza, 1701 Harbor Bay Parkway, Alameda, CA
94502-3002. Phone 800/ASCEND4; Fax 510/814-2300.
About ITC DeltaCom
ITC-DeltaCom, Inc., headquartered in West Point, GA, provides integrated telecommunications
services to mid-sized and major regional businesses in the southern United States, and is a leading
regional provider of wholesale long-haul services to other communications companies. The
company's business communication services include local exchange service, long distance, enhanced
data, Internet, operator services, and the sale and maintenance of customer premise equipment. The
company operates 16 retail sales offices in six states, and its 10-state, 7,000 mile fiber optic network
reaches approximately 70 points of presence. The company has an interconnection agreement with
BellSouth Corporation for resale and access to unbundled network elements, and is a certified
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) in all nine BellSouth states.
Note to Editors: ITC-DeltaCom Inc.'s company name contains a carat (instead of a hyphen)
between ''ITC'' ''DeltaCom''. This symbol may not appear properly in some systems.
Contact:
Ascend Communications, Inc.
Lucia Graziano, 978/952-1291
or
ITC-DeltaCom, Inc.
Dana Phelps, 205/650-3869 |
