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To: Pas who wrote (10106)	3/8/1999 9:15:00 AM
From: Rob C.	Respond to of 18016

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 1999-- New PortMaker(TM) Software Speeds Time-to-Market for High Performance Packet-Over-SONET and ATM Equipment Maker Communications, Inc. -- the leading supplier of High-Intensity Communications Processors(TM) - today announced the MXT4xxx Traffic Stream Processor (TSP) family, the industry's only network-independent, programmable communications engines to offer wire-speed performance for gigabit scale Packet-Over-SONET (POS) and ATM network equipment. The MXT4xxx TSP family provides advanced traffic management and internetworking services from OC-48 to aggregated T1 network speeds. The first product offering in the MXT4xxx family, the MXT4400 TSP executes data path functions for packet and cell networks at up to OC-12 data rates and supports 64,000 simultaneous streams of traffic. This complete processing engine, which lowers the cost and development time for building high-performance communications equipment, has been selected by both Lucent Technologies and Xylan for integration in some areas of their next generation product designs. The MXT4400 Traffic Stream Processor delivers the performance of an ASIC with the agility and rapid time-to-market of a processor-based solution. With the rate of innovation at an all-time high in the networking business, communications systems designers are being challenged to meet the conflicting demands of supporting faster performance while adapting to rapidly evolving functional requirements. The TSP meets these needs by combining the performance and cost advantages of ASICs with the flexibility of software-programmed microprocessors. Maker Communications also announced today PortMaker(TM), a production-grade network application that can run "as is" on the MXT4xxx family, but also includes a comprehensive software library for building custom applications. PortMaker speeds time-to-market by providing a complete ATM SAR function and will support Packet-over-SONET traffic management in a future release. Systems vendors can dramatically accelerate the development of custom applications using PortMaker's software library, which will include a comprehensive set of traffic management and internetworking functions. These include hierarchical traffic shaping, traffic classing, policing, header manipulation, MPLS label switching and multicast replication, for ATM, IP and Frame Relay networking equipment. The complete programmability of the Octave core, combined with PortMaker, allows developers to quickly adapt to evolving standards through simple software upgrades. "The power and flexibility of the MXT4400 Traffic Stream Processor will allow us to integrate best-in-class internetworking capabilities in our products, affording a high degree of connectivity," said Josh Weiss, Lucent's vice president of LAN engineering. "The ability to customize PortMaker will also enable us to offer a rich feature set that will address customers' needs." The broad scope of services enabled by the MXT4400 and PortMaker provide the foundation for building a wide range of next-generation communications equipment. These include Layer 2 / 3 / 4 Routers, LAN Switches, WAN Switches, ATM Switches, Multi-Service Access Multiplexors and DSLAM Trunk modules in Access, Edge and Core network products. "As the pace of network convergence intensifies, end users need communications systems that can process a wide range of protocols, standards, and applications," said Tom Des Jardins, Senior System Architect at Xylan. "The power, programmability, and multi-protocol support of the MXT4400 Traffic Stream Processor will allow Xylan to quickly bring to market a diverse set of applications using a common hardware architecture." The MXT4400 TSP is architected for easy design into the data path of network equipment. It features industry standard PCI and UTOPIA Level 2 interfaces that enable seamless integration with packet or cell switch fabrics and SONET, T1, E1, DS3 or xDSL framers. The MXT4400's integrated memory controllers also provide simple interfaces to standard memory devices and eliminate the need for custom, external memory control logic. "By leveraging and building on our expertise in ATM communications processing, Maker Communications is delivering an integrated processor engine for terabit-class systems, that extends advanced traffic management and internetworking capabilities to packet-based systems," said William N. Giudice, President and CEO, Maker Communications. "The MXT4400 enables systems vendors to shorten development cycles, support increasing network speeds, and adapt to evolving market requirements." To encourage systems designers to develop TSP applications, Maker supplies a full-featured hardware and software development environment. This tool set includes models to support board-level hardware simulations, and a complete software simulation environment with assembler and debugger for rapid product development. A C-compiler is also under development. Pricing and Availability The MXT4400 is priced from $120 to $170 in volume, depending on processor speed. Samples will be available in the second quarter of 1999. Production quantities will be available in the second half of 1999. PortMaker, SAR and POS software applications can be licensed in either binary or source code formats. Company Background Founded in 1994, Maker Communications, Inc. designs, develops and markets a complete line of programmable, high-intensity communications processors, firmware and development tools for network switches, edge devices and access products. Customers include market leaders Ascend Communications (NASDAQ:ASND.O - news), Bay Networks, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO.O - news), Fore Systems (NASDAQ:FORE.O - news), Lucent Technologies, Newbridge Networks (NYSE:NN.N - news), Nortel Networks (NASDAQ:NT.N - news), 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ:COMS.O - news) and Xylan Corporation (NASDAQ:XYLN.O - news). Maker Communications is based in Framingham, Massachusetts. Product information may be obtained by contacting maker.com, calling 508.628.0622, or writing to info@maker.com. Maker Communications is privately held, and supported by venture funding from Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners, NorWest Venture Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Greylock Management, and Applied Technology. --30--kms/bos* CONTACT: Marc Gendron Public Relations Marc Gendron 617.333.9665 marcgendron.pr@worldnet.att.net KEYWORD: MASSACHUSETTS INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMED COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS TELECOMMUNICATIONS PRODUCT Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet with Hyperlinks to your home page. URL: businesswire.com Copyright 1999, Business Wire

To: Pas who wrote (10106)	3/8/1999 9:32:00 AM
From: pat mudge	Respond to of 18016

March 08, 1999 09:09 Siemens Forms U.S. Company, Unisphere Solutions, Inc., to Deliver Converged Networking Solutions Jump to first matched term Company Targets Leading Position in Future-Oriented Market for Converged Networks MUNICH, Germany and NEW YORK, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Siemens today established Unisphere Solutions, Inc., a Siemens company, to target leadership in converged voice/data and Internet networking solutions. The new company will address increasing customer demand for networks in which voice, video, data and Internet services inter-operate as simply and reliably as a telephone call. Siemens also announced it has agreed to acquire Argon Networks, Inc., Littleton, Mass., and Castle Networks, Inc., Westford, Mass., which together with several units of Siemens Information and Communication Networks, Inc., Boca Raton, Fla., will form the basis of the new company. In addition, Siemens has taken an equity stake in Accelerated Networks, Inc., Moorpark, Calif. Today's investments are part of an initial $1 billion earmarked by Siemens for the data/IP (Internet Protocol) networking market. The company anticipates further expansion of activities in this area. These moves are yet another step in the implementation of Siemens' Ten- Point Program for growth and profitability, and the creation of "a different Siemens." Heinrich v. Pierer, Chairman of the Managing Board and President and CEO of Siemens AG, presented this "new" Siemens at the company's recent Annual Shareholders' Meeting. He underscored Siemens' intention to expand its business in the data networking market. By creating Unisphere Solutions and acquiring specialized start-up companies, Siemens is strengthening its position in the market for converged network technology. Siemens estimates the world market volume for data and Internet technology is currently $60 billion and is growing 17% annually -- more than 50 percent faster than the overall telecommunications market. According to Roland Koch, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and President of the Information and Communication Networks Group, Unisphere Solutions is a strategic center of competence for Siemens' activities in IP and data networking. "Unisphere Solutions benefits from the agility of start- up companies that are backed by the global reach of a leading electronics company in this fast-moving market. Our target is to grow faster than the market. The United States is the ideal location to expand our activities in this strategically important area because it is the innovative growth market for data and IP communication," Koch said. "It's not often that a new company opens for business and immediately has potential customer contacts in 160 countries and access to a sales force of 26,000 around the world as its primary distribution channel." Unisphere Solutions is headquartered in Burlington, Mass. Martin C. Clague, previously Vice President with responsibility for global networked computing solutions at IBM, has been named President and CEO of Unisphere Solutions. Siemens is unifying its data and IP networking activities, including Voice over IP and Voice over ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) for service providers, in the new company. It has transferred its Boca Raton-based Internet Solutions and Broadband Networks business units and its Santa Clara, Calif.-based Enterprise Data Networking unit, including its Directory Services Group, to Unisphere Solutions. Also part of the new company will be the two-year-old Argon Networks, Inc., one of the few technology companies specializing in high-speed data network switching; and Castle Networks, Inc., which develops technology designed to migrate the circuit-switched voice network to a high-performance, low-cost multiservice network. Together, these units comprise some 500 employees with a broad base of voice, data and Internet expertise. Clague said Unisphere Solutions will make further focused acquisitions, strategic partnerships and joint ventures to complement its internal R&D efforts. Worldwide responsibilities for sales of converged network solutions as well as the development of ATM broadband network products will remain in Munich. Unisphere Solutions will focus on the technologies needed to integrate communication, data and Internet networks to a seamless system and to deliver faster and more reliable solutions. According to Anthony Maher, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens Information and Communication Networks Group, "The new company will focus on powerful end-to-end solutions that will bring together today's disparate networks to converged voice and data networks. This new networked environment is creating demands for speed, for flexibility and for a reliable infrastructure to deliver faster and easier service provisioning." The Board of Directors of Unisphere Solutions will include Martin Clague; Roland Koch as Chairman; Anthony Maher; Fred Fromm, President and CEO, and Dieter Diehn, Chief Financial Officer, both of Siemens Information and Communication Networks, Inc.; and Thomas Rambold, President of the Information and Broadband Products Division of Siemens Information and Communication Networks Group. External board members are Dan Smith, President and CEO of Sycamore Networks, Inc., and George Conrades of Polaris Venture Partners. The Siemens Information and Communication Networks Group was established in 1998 as part of the reorganization of the Siemens Information and Communication business segments. Information and Communication Networks, with approximately 60,000 employees and annual sales of $14 billion, is one of the world's leading providers of end-to-end solutions for voice, data and mobile communications networks. The Information and Communication Networks Group provides products, systems, solutions, service and support for the installation and maintenance of complete corporate and service provider networks. This includes services and consulting covering network planning and financial advice through commissioning and user training. Further information about this Siemens Group can be found at: siemens.com. SOURCE Siemens