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To: red jinn who wrote (2942)	8/13/1998 11:04:00 AM
From: Jerryco	Respond to of 7342

Subj: BIRCH TELECOM CHOOSES TELLABS FOR DIGITAL CROSS-CONNECT SYSTEMS Date: 8/13/98 9:46:14 AM Central Daylight Time From: new@tellabs.com (Tellabs News) To: webmaster@tellabs.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 08/13/98 CONTACT: Thomas P. Scottino (630) 378-7504 tom.scottino@tellabs.com www.tellabs.com BIRCH TELECOM CHOOSES TELLABS FOR DIGITAL CROSS-CONNECT SYSTEMS Lisle, Ill. --- Tellabs announced today that it will supply its SONET-based, narrowband TITANR 532L digital cross-connect systems to Kansas City, Mo.,-based Birch Telecom. The terms of the five-year agreement were not disclosed. Birch Telecom, the largest competitive local access carrier in Kansas, offers a full array of telecommunications services, allowing customers to purchase local phone service, long distance service, phone equipment and internet service from one provider. With more than 20,000 customer accounts, Birch Telecom was one of the first companies to be certified in both Kansas and Missouri. "Tellabs provides a SONET solution compatible with both electrical and optical SONET transmission," said Mike Griess, vice president of engineering for Birch Telecom. "The ability of their narrowband 532L systems to perform grooming of facilities, performance monitoring, and test access capabilities will allow us to build out a state-of-the-art telecommunications network." The TITAN family of digital cross-connects is recognized industry-wide for enabling instant provisioning, "self-healing" capabilities and high reliability. These sophisticated network elements allow service providers to offer new services while reducing operating costs. TITAN systems are deployed in virtually all types of telecommunications networks, including local telephone service, long-distance, wireless and private networks, as well as in emerging corporate networks. "Telecom deregulation has given Birch Telecom the opportunity to provide a unique and valuable combination of services," said Robert Pullen, vice president of development and marketing for the Tellabs Digital Systems Division. "We are confident that both our companies will mutually benefit from this relationship." Griess reports that the TITAN system's flexibility and economies of scale played an important part in Birch's vendor selection process. Birch plans to offer switch-based service in Kansas City beginning this September, and will eventually deploy Tellabs' cross-connect systems in all of its switch-based markets to serve its business and residential customers. Currently, Birch has offices in nine cities throughout Kansas and Missouri, with plans to expand its service area to 21 markets by the end of 1999. Tellabs designs, manufactures, markets and services voice and data transport and network access systems. The company's products are used worldwide by the providers of communications services. Tellabs, Inc., stock is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (TLAB). Tellabs, the Tellabs logo and TITAN are registered U.S. trademarks of Tellabs Operations, Inc., in the United States and/or in other countries. ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <new@tellabs.com> Received: from relay31.mx.aol.com (relay31.mail.aol.com [172.31.109.31]) by air17.mail.aol.com (v47.5) with SMTP; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:46:14 -0400 Received: from tellab5.tellabs.com (tellab5.tellabs.com [138.111.243.28]) by relay31.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with SMTP id KAA01962; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:43:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tellabs.com by tellab5.tellabs.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0z6yQo-003BDOC; Thu, 13 Aug 98 09:32 CDT Message-ID: <35D1A844.BEA18136@tellabs.com> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:35:48 -0500 From: Tellabs News <new@tellabs.com> Organization: Tellabs Operations, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: webmaster@tellabs.com Subject: BIRCH TELECOM CHOOSES TELLABS FOR DIGITAL CROSS-CONNECT SYSTEMS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

To: red jinn who wrote (2942)	8/13/1998 3:25:00 PM
From: dougjn	Respond to of 7342

OT***roots of our prosperity. You are absolutely right. Our rule of law, and its relatively light touch are essential ingredients, and should not have been left out of my initial diatribe. <gg> I think we have the english heritage of our legal system largely to thank for that. Though we much improved on it, especially at the constitutional level. And your emphasis on the constitution itself, with its carefully balanced powers (Madison) and protection of property rights, rather than the bill of rights (which is the subject of nearly all current scrutiny) is interesting. Doug