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To: Glenn McDougall who wrote (10783)	4/14/1999 8:38:00 AM
From: Gilbert Drapeau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

Guangdong PTA Selects Newbridge Multiservice ATM Platform for Province-wide Frame Relay Network - Fully-Managed Networking Solution Consolidates Traffic Onto Single,Unifying ATM Backbone APRIL 14, 1999 KANATA, ONTARIO--Newbridge Networks (NYSE: NN; TSE: NNC) today announced it has won a major contract to supply the industry- leading Siemens / Newbridge MainStreetXpress(tm) 36170 Multiservices Switch to Guangdong Post and Telecommunications Administrative Bureau (GPTA) for a new, province-wide frame relay network spanning more than 100 counties and cities in Guangdong Province. On completion, the network will form one of the largest of its type in China. Part of a multiphase project, the scalable, multiservice, multi-access platform will enable GPTA to consolidate X.25 and frame relay traffic running over a Newbridge(r) digital data network (DDN) onto a single, unified asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) backbone. In the first phase of the project, GPTA will deploy 128 MainStreetXpress 36170 Multiservices Switches to link banks and other financial institutions, corporate customers and government departments in 12 of Guangdong's largest cities. "The network will effectively address the rapidly growing demand for flexible, high-capacity data connectivity in Guangdong Province," said Roger Fung, Executive Vice President, Asia Pacific, Newbridge Networks. "By consolidating lower speed data lines onto a single, broadband multiservice backbone, the new network will also enable GPTA to dramatically cut capital and operating costs, while providing the flexibility to meet future growth in demand for data connectivity." "The Newbridge(r) broadband ATM backbone solution integrates seamlessly with GPTA's existing 1,200-node Newbridge 3600 MainStreet(r) Bandwidth Manager network, and the entire network will be seamlessly managed end-to-end by the MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager and MainStreetXpress 48020 MultiNetwork Service Controller," continued Mr. Fung. The MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager's unique network partitioning and operator profiling capabilities combine the economies of scale of a shared network infrastructure with the flexibility of a private network to provide highly granular control over network resource assignment and operator actions. The twelve cities to be linked under the first phase of the project are Dongguan, Foshan, Guangzhou, Huizhou, Jiangmen, Nanhai, Shantou, Shenzhen, Shunde, Zhanjiang, Zhongshan and Zhuhai. Newbridge Networks designs, manufactures, markets and services networking solutions to organizations in more than 100 countries. The Company leverages its relationship with a growing family of Newbridge Affiliate companies and strategic alliances with Siemens and 3Com Corporation to deliver seamless, end-to-end solutions. Newbridge customers include the world's 300 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 six continents. News and information are available at www.newbridge.com. Newbridge and logo are registered trademarks of Newbridge Networks Corporation. MainStreetXpress is a trademark used by the Siemens / Newbridge alliance for comprehensive solutions in broadband communication. No agency relationship, partnership, or joint ownership of a legal entity is to be inferred or implied by