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To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (5275)	6/22/1998 12:20:00 PM
From: pat mudge	Respond to of 18016

Perhaps DeTe System is a way for Deutsche Telecom to test Ascend. As for the bigger announcement, I'm taking this to be the DSL launch coming up in September. Do you know where NN stands? Siemens has already announced they'll have part of it, but I don't know if this is through MainStreetXpress, or on their own. I think the latter. I'll see what I can dig up. Pat

To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (5275)	6/22/1998 4:28:00 PM
From: pat mudge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

From Deutsche Telekom's website: dtag.de dtag.de Could NN be involved through the following partnership? <<< Deutsche Telekom, Energis and France Telecom to build new state-of-art telecom networks for Britains cities April 2 1998 -- Deutsche Telekom, Energis and France Telecom today announce the creation of a new company, MetroHoldings Limited. MetroHoldings will build new local metropolitan area telecom networks in Britains principal cities, starting in London, thereby extending Energis' existing national network, creating direct links with business customers. Following London, the next cities are expected to be Manchester and Birmingham. MetroHoldings is owned 50 % by Energis and 25 % each by Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom. MetroHoldings will deliver state-of-art, local telecoms networks more rapidly and more cost effectively than if the three parties were to build these networks on their own. The networks will deploy the latest SDH broadband fibre optic transmission technology - the same technology as used in Energis existing national network. The new network will allow the partners and Global One to develop a full range of innovative, value added services to better serve the needs of business customers in the UK, such as national and international voice and data services and City Nets. This will enable businesses directly to receive higher quality, higher reliability and lower cost telecoms services. Construction of the local networks is made easier, quicker and less expensive because Energis' existing network, largely carried over the National Grid, already encircles and runs through the major conurbations and, in London, runs through the London Underground. This reduces construction cost and increases construction speed. As the two major European telecommunications operators, Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom will provide their own proven know how and link their respective international networks. Energis will be responsible for network design, planning, construction and network management for MetroHoldings. The Directors of MetroHoldings are Mike Grabiner, Chief Executive of Energis plc, John Beaumont, Director of Strategy and Business Development of Energis plc, Rex Stephenson, Senior Executive Director, Worldwide Networks of Deutsche Telekom, and Francois Comet, Vice President, Alternate Networks of France Telecom. Commenting on behalf of Deutsche Telekom, Paul Grosse, Senior Executive Director, New Business Development and Management, said : We are very pleased to have Energis as our strong and innovative partner in the U.K. Through the infrastructure joint venture, we have excellent access to local loops. Our customers will benefit greatly from this." Commenting on behalf of Energis, Mike Grabiner, Chief Executive, said: ®This is an important addition to Britainss telecoms infrastructure and will bring state of the art networks to our principal cities. Connecting right to the doors of our business customers will significantly broaden our network reach and reduce our delivery costs. We also strengthen our commercial relationships with two major European telecom operators, with which we already have correspondent relationships on international traffic, and which will use Energis' state-of-art national network.¯ Commenting on behalf of France Telecom, Francois Comet said: ®Thanks to this agreement, France Telecom will develop its presence in the UK at a reduced cost, thus complementing the international services offered by Global One. We will offer business customers very high quality services at competitive prices. This London network will be connected with the major European business centres and enable corporations to benefit from city to city broadband managed services.¯ For further information, please contact: Deutsche Telekom Press Office Hans Ehnert Tel: + 49 228 181 4949 Fax:+ 49 228 181 8941 France Telecom Corporate Information Bruno Janet + 33 1 44 44 93 93 + 33 1 44 44 80 34 + 44 171 343 2430 Energis plc Press Office Annie Jupp + 44 171 206 5700 + 44 171 206 5414>>>>

To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (5275)	6/26/1998 2:00:00 PM
From: zbyslaw owczarczyk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18016

Is NN ahead of ASND with respect to technology? According to facts emphesized during NN contract (sale of real products)press releases eg:www.newbridge.com/news/releases/index.html NETWORLD + INTEROP, Las Vegas, May 5, 1998 -- 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 MainStreetr and MainStreetXpressT management and access products in the AT&T Managed Bandwidth Service (MBS) offering (see related AT&T announcement). The Newbridger 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. or "The Newbridge ATM multiservices platform can simultaneously support Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and IP services including Internet, intranets and extranets," said Jerry Lenfest, Chairman, Suburban Cable Television. "Our new network enables us to offer frame relay, private-line and ATM services to competitive local exchange carriers, Internet service providers (ISPs), inter-exchange carriers and other enterprises. Suburban Cable is positioned to meet FCC requirements for entering the long distance service provider market." newbridge can deliver different class of services including voice, vidio data and allow to support VPNs on single ATM platform that can manage up to 50000 nodes per domain(100x more then competition).The company is already selling this products (after testing ) to its customers. Just yestrday ASND announced that is going to deliver similar class of services in the future: Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM June 25, 1998, 3:00 p.m. PT Ascend Communications will launch a calculated component of its strategy next week to help telecommunications carriers alleviate congestion on phone layouts and begin the migration to a merged voice and data-based networking future. The so-called gateway technology Ascend will offer feeds into the notion that voice and data will soon become one stream of bits across a single pipe, rather than separately routed technologies. It also allows carriers to build value-added services such as virtual private network (VPN) capabilities, which will likely be a key revenue driver in the future as long distance prices plummet. The Ascend Signaling Gateway, or ASG, is currently in trials with customers and is due to ship in August. Ascend's move follows similar rollouts from the likes of Cisco Systems, Bay Networks, and Bay's suitor, Northern Telecom. These firms are all attempting to address an interim and long-sought need of telcos and service providers by offering a gateway to alleviate congestion on overworked phone switches. These gateways essentially intercept data transmissions and reroute traffic onto data layouts through the use of Signaling System 7 (SS7). By the end of the year, Ascend hopes to tie the ASG to voice and fax-over-IP (Internet protocol) services it intends to provide in its equipment. By the second quarter of next year, Ascend executives claim the company will deliver voice over asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), a cell-based technology, as opposed to IP's packet-based scheme. Ascend initially will offer its ASG hardware for $69 to $101 per port, with initial support for 50,000 ports due in August and support for 100,000 to 200,000 ports due in subsequent releases.