ADC's New Saville Interconnect Billing Platform Makes Carriers and Service Providers More Competitive in the Telecommunications Market.

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MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2000

Latest version of IBP(TM) helps service providers better manage

their interconnect agreements 

ADC (Nasdaq:ADCT; www.adc.com) today announced its Saville Interconnect Billing Platform (IBP) version 4.0, a complete inter-operator settlement solution, designed to enable communications service providers to compete effectively in the increasingly complex and profitable interconnect market.

Version 4.0 provides significant new functionality including support for transfer account procedures (TAP) file processing and GSM roaming, multi-unit rating, taxation support, multi-currency capability including full support for Euro exchange rates, along with comprehensive support for discounting. Version 4.0 also includes significant performance improvements which provide the scalability needed to handle ever increasing transaction numbers as operators expand from traditional voice services to data, mobile and IP-based services.

IBP 4.0 helps service providers to negotiate better interconnect agreements and provide accurate carrier-to-carrier billing. IBP allows service providers to increase revenues by effectively billing for network capacity sold to other telcos who plan to terminate calls on or transit calls through the original service provider's network. IBP also enables service providers to save money by giving them the information they need to finalize the more affordable interconnect agreements.

Increased competition and new market opportunities are spawning more sophisticated interconnect agreements among telecommunications carriers. Carriers with advanced billing technology that can manage these increasingly intricate agreements and bill for services accurately should be in the best position to grow and increase their market share.

IBP 4.0 is a true product solution and, unlike toolkit-based solutions, can be implemented rapidly without extensive custom coding. Its flexibility is designed so that configuring the system, e.g. for new rates, can be done quickly and easily and allows the service provider to be self-sufficient from day one. Overall this adds up to a significant advantage in time-to-market and cost of ownership.

The IBP advantage

IBP 4.0 gives service providers features to handle a broad range of rating, discounting and taxation issues. Some of these features include:

-- Multiple-unit rating -- Service providers who want to transcend

simple billing for time online can use IBP to bill for bandwidth,

packets, distance, quality of service level, transmitted data

volume and other units (quantity types). With IBP, service

providers can charge for a variety of quantity types. For

example, a service provider could use IBP to rate for

voice-over-IP based upon the number of kilobytes, the number of

minutes and the quality of service for each call.

-- Flexible traffic period -- Service providers know that different

customers prefer to receive billing information in different

intervals. With IBP, service providers can organize customers

into different traffic period groups and supply billing

information to those customers based upon their specific

accounting period, such as daily, weekly or monthly.

-- Discounts, penalties and recurring charges -- IBP enables service

providers to establish a full discounting program. IBP supports

volume-based discounts and penalty calculations based upon

achieved or unachieved thresholds.

-- Taxation support -- Service providers can use IBP to calculate

different tax liabilities for different legs of a call and can

apply those taxes to separate customer accounts. This simplifies

the process for calculating interconnect billing-related taxes.

-- Reference data API -- Deploying standard interconnect billing

systems can take a long time because of the enormous amount of

data billing managers must enter and manage. The IBP reference

data API allows users to easily load key event rating reference

data from an Excel spreadsheet or a text file. This saves time,

allowing companies to deploy IBP more quickly and get a foothold 

in competitive markets.

-- Direct or cascade billing -- IBP allows service providers to

either bill interconnect service providers directly or through a

cascade formula.

-- Multi-currency rating and billing -- IBP facilitates

international interconnect agreements through multiple currency

rating and billing, including standard drawing rights (SDR), the

Euro and Euro sub-currencies. IBP tracks exchange rates on a

daily or traffic-period basis.

-- GSM roaming -- IBP provides TAP file import and export

capabilities to support settlement between operators with GSM

roaming agreements.

&uot;The interconnect market is lucrative, but very complicated,&uot; said Larry Barker, president of ADC's Software Systems Division. &uot;To compete, service providers need a comprehensive billing engine that helps them navigate tricky interconnect agreement negotiations and provide a variety of rating, discounting and billing programs aimed at maximizing profits. IBP 4.0 has the scalable, flexible design to help service providers get ahead of their competitors.&uot;

More information concerning Saville IBP and other ADC Saville products can be obtained on the Web at www.savillesys.com or by visiting ADC at stand F17 in Hall 1 at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, February 1-4.

About ADC

ADC Telecommunications, Inc. is a leading global supplier of network equipment, software and integration services for broadband, multiservice networks that deliver data, video and voice communications over telephone, cable television, Internet, broadcast, wireless and enterprise networks. ADC's broadband, multiservice network solutions enable local access, high-speed transmission and software management of communications services from service providers to consumers and businesses over fiber-optic, copper, coaxial and wireless media. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ADC has approximately 13,500 employees around the world and annual sales of $1.9 billion. ADC's stock is included in the Standard &Poor's 500 Index. For additional information, visit our Web site at www.adc.com.

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