AT&T and Milgo Solutions Expand Professional Service Relationship; Milgo to Provide New Services to AT&T Customers.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SUNRISE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2000

Milgo Solutions, a leading provider of mission-critical networking solutions, and AT&T have teamed up to enhance AT&T's Frame Relay Plus service with three new options that will be provided by Milgo.

Milgo currently stages, configures, installs and maintains equipment in over 15,000 Frame Relay Plus sites for nearly 500 AT&T customers.

AT&T provides an array of network products and services enabling information flow between customers' sites. The Frame Relay Plus Service is designed to enrich the capabilities of the standard Frame Relay offering. It adds proactive monitoring and fault resolution to address problems beyond the frame cloud and compiles a complete range of performance reports that enhance troubleshooting and performance tuning. Frame Relay Plus is for businesses that want the highest network reliability and performance combined with minimal day-to-day involvement.

As part of the new agreement, Milgo will provide AT&T Frame Relay Plus customers with:

-- Router and hub staging, installation, and maintenance - An increase in
communications technology has given businesses a wide choice of product network
functionality and sophistication. Milgo will service multi-vendor products
giving AT&T customers a one-stop-shopping resource for their network service
needs.

-- Demarc extensions - The telco point of demarcation (demarc) is seldom
installed exactly where businesses need to have their wide area network (WAN)
equipment. It is extremely costly and time consuming to move a demarc. Milgo
provides a premise cabling service to extend the demarcs as part of its service
to AT&T in conjunction with the Frame Relay Plus rollout. The service is
performed in conjunction with the Frame Relay Plus rollout.

-- Project management services - Milgo can manage any size or variety

of project, including national deployment requirements, WAN, LAN,

staging, installation, site surveys, and demarc extensions.

"This relationship enables us to distinguish Milgo as a total network solutions provider," said Bob Wentworth, Milgo president and CEO. "We listened to the needs of both AT&T and its customers and developed strategic services that will deliver results."

"We are delighted to have such an effective network service solutions relationship with Milgo," said Mark Budniewski, AT&T Product Manager. "Our relationship over the past two years has developed into an outstanding partnership. Milgo is one of the industry's highest-rated support organizations, and that is a benefit we like to bring to our customers."

Milgo Solutions

Milgo Solutions (www.milgo.com), headquartered in Sunrise, Fla., is a leader in the field of networking solutions and services. It benefits from the blending of assets from Racal-Datacom and the TimePlex Group, each with a 40-year history of success in communications. Milgo brings its clients strong service and consultative expertise, complemented by strategic relationships with industry leaders such as Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems, and Marconi. These relationships, along with our over 1200 person international infrastructure, enable Milgo to install world-class technology solutions. Milgo has installed more than 9,000 multi-vendor networks in over 100 countries, and manages many of them from network support centers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Milgo Solutions, LLC is owned by Platinum Equity Holdings.

Platinum Equity Holdings

Platinum Equity Holdings (www.peh.com), based in Los Angeles, has been recognized as one of the largest and fastest growing privately held IT companies in the United States by both Forbes and BusinessWeek magazines. The company has distinguished itself as a billion-dollar investment corporation that specializes in acquiring and operating mission-critical technology organizations and technology-enabled service companies throughout the world. Platinum currently owns 14 technology-driven corporations featuring a workforce of 10,000 employees, an established infrastructure in more than 100 countries and offices in Europe, Asia and South America.