CBIS's Orlando Data Center undergoes major expansion.

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 1996--Cincinnati Bell Information Systems (CBIS(R)) announces the completion of a major expansion of capacity at its Orlando (Florida) Data Center. The enhancements have sharply increased the processing power of CBIS's mainframe computers and nearly doubled the data center's information storage capacity. CBIS's total investment in this project amounted to more than $50 million.

The Orlando facility, already CBIS's largest data center, added an additional mainframe processor with state-of-the-art fault-tolerant functionality. The combined processing power now exceeds 950 million instructions per second. Storage capacity contained in additional disk access storage devices (DASD) grew to nearly 5 trillion bytes of data.

"These important upgrades and several others completed in the last few months demonstrate CBIS's commitment to continuous process improvement in support of our clients with state-of-the-art technology and the huge data processing power required to be the low cost producer of quality solutions," said James F. Orr, President and CEO of CBIS. "We work closely with our clients to supply them with extremely efficient and timely bill processing which is a tremendous competitive advantage."

The CBIS Orlando Data Center utilizes the largest state-of-the-art computers generally available from IBM and Hitachi. These machines support the processing of wireless telephone bills for CBIS clients throughout the United States and in both Canada and Mexico. The computers process over 139 million transactions and 12 million bills per month.

According to Charles J. Del Riesgo, Senior Vice President of the CBIS Data Center Group, speed is not the only requirement for such huge volumes of data processing. "Multiple hardware and software platforms are offered and the data center is staffed by operations and support personnel with advanced levels of technical expertise and various areas of specialization. We have also improved the reliability of electrical power to critical data center loads by adding state-of-the art, redundant uninterruptable power systems, installed extreme density tape racks that allow for greater manageability and consolidation of tape libraries, introduced bar-code scanning technology, and enhanced backup and recovery processes by implementing a sophisticated disaster recovery procedure."

The Orlando Data Center provides the technology, environment, and support necessary to assure high system availability and critical back-up capabilities. CBIS also operates a major data center in Cincinnati.

CBIS is the global leader in the provision and management of customer care and billing solutions for the communications industry. More than 225,000,000 bills for cable TV, wireless and wireline telephony are produced by CBIS software and in CBIS's data centers each year. CBIS uses its extensive billing systems expertise and service bureau experience to create advantages for leading companies in wireless, cable TV, wireline, and emerging communications services. CBIS is a subsidiary of Cincinnati Bell Inc. (NYSE:CSN).

CBIS is a registered service mark of Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc.

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