Embratel Selects Newbridge Multiservice Multi-Access ATM Platform.

KANATA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 1999-- NEWBRIDGE(TSE:NNC.) (NYSE:NN) Newbridge solution delivers private lines, frame relay and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) services under unified network and service management system

Newbridge Networks (NYSE: NN; TSE: NNC) today announced that Empresa Brasileira de Telecomunicacoes SA (Embratel), Brazil's long-distance carrier, has selected the industry-leading Siemens / Newbridge MainStreetXpress(tm) 36170 Multiservice Switch to provide asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) services in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janiero. The scalable, multiservice, multi-access platform enables Embratel to consolidate existing digital overlay networks, including private line and frame relay infrastructures, onto a single, unified ATM platform centrally managed by the MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager.

The MainStreetXpress 36170 multiservice ATM network will enable the rapid introduction of new services while reducing capital and operational costs by consolidating multiple networks and services over a single, high capacity core network. The consolidated network enables Embratel to deliver end-to-end quality of service (QoS), managed virtual private network (VPN) services and other new value-added services and support.

"Our proven success in building reliable digital data networks for carriers throughout the world underpins out strategy to work with this broad customer base to deliver scalable, reliable, broadand ATM networks to enable them to rapidly provide new and enhanced services to their customers," said Giulio Gianturco, Executive Vice President, North and South America, Newbridge Networks.

The networking solution is comprises of the industry-leading MainStreetXpress 36170 MultiServices Switch and MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager. Installed in the networks of more than 325 service providers worldwide, the MainStreetXpress 36170 Multiservices Switch provides a broad range of interfaces and service offering capabilities - including cell relay, frame relay, advanced private line, local area network (LAN) internetworking and Internet protocol (IP). Key benefits of the MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager are its ability to centrally monitor and manage networks carrying multiservice networks, and support and manage more than 250,000 network connections simultaneously. Its high scalability also enables more than 120 network operators to manage and monitor the network at the same time.

Newbridge Networks designs, manufactures, markets and services networking solutions to organizations in more than 100 countries. The Company leverages its relationship with a growing family of Newbridge(r) Affiliate companies and strategic alliances with Siemens and 3Com Corporation to deliver seamless, end-to-end solutions. Newbridge customers include the world's 300 largest telecommunications service providers and more than 10,000 corporations, government organizations and other institutions. Founded in 1986, the Company employs more than 6,000 people on six continents. News and information are available at www.newbridge.com.

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