Newbridge Networks Designs Global Services Management
Platform for New AT&T Service
10:30 a.m. May 05, 1998 Eastern
LAS VEGAS, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 1998--(TSE:NNC.)
(NYSE:NN) Industry-leading Newbridge platforms to integrate private line, frame
relay and ATM transport into single, end-to-end managed solution
NETWORLD + INTEROP - In a demonstration of leadership in scalable,
end-to-end service management and reliable networking platforms, Newbridge
Networks today announced that AT&T Corp. has begun the deployment of the
Company's MainStreet(R) and MainStreetXpress(TM) management and access
products in the AT&T Managed Bandwidth Service (MBS) offering (see related
AT&T announcement). The Newbridge(R) Global Services Management Platform
(GSMP) has been designed for the global reach and extensive scope of the AT&T
Managed Bandwidth Service. AT&T Managed Bandwidth Service brings together
the strengths of AT&T private line, frame relay and asynchronous transfer mode
(ATM) service offering with the power of the Newbridge GSMP and networking
equipment into a single managed solution for corporate network voice, image, video
and data traffic requirements.
Introduced at Telecom '95 in Geneva, the Newbridge GSMP is a fully managed and
integrated set of networking products selected from the Newbridge product
portfolio optimized to deliver advanced standards-based global service offerings.
GSMP enables carriers to provide many thousands of corporate network customers
a full, end-to-end view of their global networks encompassing private line, frame
relay and ATM services, including key parameters such as configuration, network
status, Service Level Agreement and performance reporting, as well as
unprecedented visibility of network bandwidth resources down to the slot, card, or
port level.
"By deploying Newbridge equipment and GSMP customized for AT&T, AT&T
Managed Bandwidth Services offers the industry's most comprehensive suite of
managed, end-to-end, reconfigurable bandwidth services and provides corporate
network customers an unprecedented on-line view of these services on a global
basis," said Bill Callahan, Services Director, AT&T Managed Network Solutions.
"AT&T MBS unleashes the power of two leaders in their respective industries. The
explosion of the managed network services, network integration and outsourcing
industry is testimony to our vision of multiservice, multi-fabric and
multi-administrator global services management," said Terence Matthews,
Chairman and CEO, Newbridge Networks. "With its reach and breadth of scope of
its managed network service offering, AT&T is the undisputed leader of this
high-growth industry. I am pleased that AT&T has selected the Newbridge solution
set for its aggressive global deployment plans for MBS."
This solution set includes the 3600 and 3645 MainStreet bandwidth management
products and the MainStreetXpress(TM) 36170 Multiservices Switch, 36150
Access Switch, 36100 Access Concentrator, and 36035/75 Local Area Network
Service Units. The family of network and service management systems includes
the MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager, 45020 Element Manager, 48020
Multinetwork Service Controller, 56020 Routing Services Control Point, Connext
Exec, and Customer Service Management.
AT&T Corp. is the world's premier communications and information services
company, serving more than 90 million customers, including consumers, businesses
and government. The company has annual revenues of more than $52 billion and
130,000 employees. It runs the world's largest, most sophisticated communications
network and is the leading provider of long-distance and wireless services. AT&T
operates in more than 200 countries and territories around the world.
Newbridge Networks (NYSE:NN; TSE:NNC) designs, manufactures, markets and
services total networking solutions to organizations in more than 100 countries.
Newbridge leverages its relationship with 15 Affiliate companies, and strategic
alliances with Siemens and 3Com Corporation to deliver seamless, end-to-end
solutions. Newbridge customers include the world's 250 largest telecommunications
service providers and more than 10,000 corporations, government organizations and
other institutions. Founded in 1986, the company employs more than 6,000 people on
five continents. News and information are available at www.newbridge.com.
Newbridge, logo are registered trademarks of Newbridge Networks Corporation.
MainStreetXpress is a trademark used exclusively by Siemens AG and Newbridge
Networks Corporation under license for their comprehensive solutions in broadband
communications. No agency relationship, partnership, or joint ownership of a legal
entity is to be inferred or implied by the use of the term alliance.
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