Copper Mountain Announces Deployed Port Capacity of More Than One Million DSL Ports; One Million Port Milestone Achieved in February 2000.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2000 Copper Mountain Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:CMTN), the market-share leader in business Digital Subscriber Line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and (DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary ) equipment, today announced that as of the end of February 2000, its footprint of CopperEdge(R) DSL concentrators represented a total port capacity of more than one million DSL ports. Copper Mountain is the market leader in total shipments of business DSL ports, including Symmetric DSL See DSL. (SDSL See DSL. SDSL - Single-line Digital Subscriber Line ) and ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. DSL (IDSL See DSL. ), and it also sells G.lite (Asymmetric DSL) line cards that support consumer DSL services. "Several factors contributed to the rapid deployment of our DSL concentrators in 1999," said Rick Gilbert, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Copper Mountain. "While Tier 1 service providers were the early adopters of business DSL, Tier 2 and Tier 3 providers also began deploying our DSL solutions nationwide. Sales to the multi-tenant unit (MTU (1) (Maximum Transmission Unit, Maximum Transfer Unit) The largest frame size that can be transmitted over the network. For example, an Ethernet MTU is 1,500 bytes. Messages longer than the MTU must be divided into smaller frames. ) market also ramped, and we have begun marketing our products internationally. In addition to expanding our addressable Reachable. When something is addressable, it can be identified and manipulated independently of its surroundings. For example, screen pixels and RAM memory are addressable. Each of the screen's picture elements can be individually turned on and off, and each of the memory's bytes can be markets, Copper Mountain also increased support for in-demand services as Frame Relay, Voice over DSL, and G.lite consumer DSL." Multi-Service Capabilities Boost Sales "Copper Mountain realized early on that the market needed an intelligent platform that would allow carriers and service providers to offer multi-service DSL," said Keith Higgins, director of marketing at Copper Mountain. "During the past year we have added support for Frame Relay services, virtual private network (VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. ) services for secure corporate communications over DSL, and for Voice over DSL (VoDSL), which enable carriers to offer converged voice and data services to subscribers. We also support new network-based IP services, which are generating a lot of interest." During the past year, Copper Mountain has emerged as the leading supplier of DSL concentrators to Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs). In 1999, Copper Mountain accounted for $108.1 million, or 42.5 percent, of total business DSL concentrator sales of $254.4 million, according to a report from the Dell'Oro Group (Feb. 2000). The Dell'Oro report also states that Copper Mountain attained the number-one position in business DSL ports shipped industry-wide, accounting for 42.9 percent, or 295,000, of the total 687,900 business DSL ports shipped in 1999. "The growth rate of the DSL market is increasing rapidly," said Beth Gage, senior broadband consultant of TeleChoice. "Copper Mountain has consistently shown an ability to get to market with a broad range of DSL solutions and to offer capabilities that service providers need to address customer requirements. Add to that a large and growing list of customers, and the company is well situated to maintain a leading position in the DSL market." More than 20 customers have deployed Copper Mountain concentrators in 100-plus metropolitan areas throughout 40 U.S. states and one Canadian province. Customers include the following companies: Axessa BTI BTI Beverage Testing Institute BTI Boyce Thompson Institute BTI British American Tobacco (stock symbol) BTI Boston Theological Institute Bti Bacillus Thuringiensis Israelensis BTI BioTechnology Institute BTI Binding Tariff Information Telecom Corp. DSL.net Fastwire.com ICG ICG indocyanine green. Communications InterAccess Jato Communications LightNetworks Lynxus Maverix.net McLeodUSA Mpower Communications NetINS NETMCR Network Telephone NorthPoint Communications OnSite Access Pacific Crest/Universal Access Rhythms NetConnections UUNET/WorldCom/MCI Vanion Wiznet Inc./WizTel About Copper Mountain Networks Copper Mountain Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:CMTN) develops and markets a comprehensive family of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) solutions that enable high-speed internetworking over existing copper facilities. The company's mission is to enable carriers and other service providers to offer a full range of high-performance, cost-effective data and voice services over DSL that are easy to deploy, use and manage. Copper Mountain's CopperRocket(R) CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment family addresses the bandwidth, reliability, ease-of-use and cost concerns of remote offices and users. Its CopperEdge(R) DSL concentrators, OnPrem(TM) multi-tenant unit (MTU) concentrators, and CopperView(TM) network management solutions offer a robust and scalable platform for carriers and multi-tenant unit service providers to generate a high return on investment while satisfying the ever-increasing user demand for bandwidth. Customers wanting more information about Copper Mountain products can contact Diana Helfrich at 650/687-3314 or visit the company's World Wide Web site at http://www.coppermountain.com. For investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. information, call toll free 877/INFO-CMTN (463-6268) or contact the company at IR@coppermountain.com. Portions of this release contain forward-looking statements regarding future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Copper Mountain wishes to caution you that there are some factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results indicated by such statements. These factors include, but are not limited to quarterly fluctuations in operating results attributable to the timing and amount of orders for our products, the concentration of our revenue in a small number of customers, factors affecting the rate of DSL deployment by our customers, market acceptance of our products, our ability to keep pace with rapidly changing product requirements, and factors affecting the demand for DSL technologies. We refer you to the documents Copper Mountain files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically the section titled Risk Factors in our Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No.333-73153). Note to Editors: Copper Mountain and all Copper Mountain product names are trademarks of Copper Mountain Networks, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. |
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