American Access Technologies to Unveil New Zone Cabling Enclosures in the Herman Miller Showroom At NeoCon `99 Trade Show in Chicago.

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 1999--

Telecommunications equipment manufacturer American Access Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ SmallCap: AATK) announced today that it will unveil two new products next week in the Herman Miller showroom at NeoCon `99, the world's leading trade fair for the contract furnishings industry, in Chicago, IL.

The products will also be presented next week at BICSI Summer Conference 1999, a telecommunications trade convention, in Nashville, TN.

The new American Access products, called Comdeck(R) and Ethocom(R), are zone cabling enclosure systems specifically designed to fit inside units of Systems Bridge and Ethospace, respectively, two lines of modular office furniture produced by leading office furniture manufacturer Herman Miller (NASDAQ: MLHR).

"Up until now, American Access products delivered the advantages of zone cabling as far as the nearest ceiling tile or raised-floor panel, but now our technology is even more versatile," said American Access CEO Richard A. Murray. "Cost-effective accommodation of telecom cabling has been one of the most vexing problems in modular furniture design for the past 15 years, but now for the first time there is a solution that truly meets the needs of the market.

"We are proud to be working with Herman Miller to offer products that combine the best of modular telecommunications equipment and modular office furniture," said Murray.

Comdeck(R) and Ethocom(R) allow telecom switches, hubs and routers to be placed inside modular wall frames, providing gigabit ethernet speeds to desktop workstations over a horizontal cross-connect with a fiber backbone. Changes to any cluster of workstations can be made at the end panels of the frames in a matter of minutes.

Costs associated with moves, adds and changes to telecommunications cabling in a conventional modular furniture setting, over ten years, is typically three times the original cost of the modular furniture. In contrast, the new American Access in-furniture enclosures are estimated to pay for themselves in cost savings in only 4-5 years in most cases.

"Compatibility of Ethocom(R) with a standard Herman Miller line like Ethospace opens up a $3.5 billion retrofit base with Fortune 500 companies, which we intend to target aggressively," said Murray. "In addition, we intend to market the space-saving combination of Herman Miller's Systems Bridge furniture with our Comdeck(R) zone cabling to the $26 billion Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) market. What's more, the Systems Bridge line is compatible with modular furniture made by other manufacturers, so the combination may well be attractive to companies that are not already Herman Miller customers," he said.

Murray noted that development and demonstration of Comdeck(R) and Ethocom(R) were made possible with technical assistance from Herman Miller, Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies, Ortronics, AMP Incorporated, Panduit, ADC Telecommunications and Krone & Belden Cable.

About zone cabling

American Access' patent-protected, UL-approved Zone Cabling Termination Cabinet (ZCTC) products for ceiling grids, raised floors and now Herman Miller modular furniture units apply the concept of "zone cabling" to replace conventional telecommunications wiring with a system that provides complete flexibility for voice and data cabling infrastructures. In addition to the benefits of greater convenience and ease-of-use, zone cabling is estimated to reduce the long term cost of installing and maintaining a telecom wiring system by as much as 70%.

About American Access

American Access Technologies, Inc., based in Altamonte Springs, FL, is a telecommunications technology company that develops, manufactures and markets innovative products designed to support the evolving structured cabling system components of the telecommunications industry. Its core technology, the Zone Cabling Termination Cabinet, is marketed nationwide in conjunction with leading telecommunications equipment manufacturers and distributors such as Graybar Electric Co., Inc., Anixter International Inc. (NYSE: AXE), Kent Electronics (NYSE: KNT), Hughes Supply, Inc. (NYSE:HUG), State Electric, Coleman's and Platt DSV Resource Center.

Customers of American Access include public companies such as Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE:C), Fina, Inc. (NYSE:FIN); First Data Corporation (NYSE:FDC); Gateway 2000 Inc. (NYSE:GTW); Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS); Household International Inc. (NYSE:HI); Iomega Corp (NYSE:IOM); Lucent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:LU); Mobil Corporation (NYSE:MOB); Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO), Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:LVLT), Qwest Communications International Inc. (NASDAQ:QWST) and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW); as well as private corporations and government entities such as the State of Tennessee and school districts in Buffalo, NY and Dallas, Irvine and Richardson, TX.

News and product/service information are available at www.aatk.com.

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