Reliability Report Affirms Lucent Technologies' Leadership; Flagship 5ESS-2000 AnyMedia Switch Widens Lead Over All Competitors.MURRAY HILL Murray Hill may refer to one of the following places:
prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. analysis of a Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. (FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. ) quality report released in April. Data from the FCC's 1997 ARMIS ARMIS Automated Reporting and Management Information System (FCC) ARMIS Adhoc Reports Management Information System (Automatic Reporting Management and Information System) Report reveals that among four major switch manufacturers, the 5ESS Switch was the most reliable in four standard performance categories. In two of the categories--downtime and service interruptions for residential and business lines--the 5ESS Switch maintained the leadership it has held since 1993 and set new performance benchmarks. The Lucent switch established those benchmarks by achieving the least downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. since 1993 for every 10,000 customer lines and by recording the smallest number of service interruption INTERRUPTION. The effect of some act or circumstance which stops the course of a prescription or act of limitation's. 2. Interruption of the use of a thing is natural or civil. incidents per 1 million business and residential lines. "Reliability is crucial as service providers offer data, video and other high speed, sophisticated services to their consumer and business customers," said Bob Holder, president of Lucent's switching and access systems business unit. "Our 5ESS Switch continues to outperform Outperform An analyst recommendation meaning a stock is expected to do slightly better than the market return. Notes: Exact definitions vary by brokerage, but in general this rating is better than neutral and worse than buy or strong buy. the industry," he said. "We raised the leading benchmarks in 1997, and showed again that the 5ESS Switch is the industry's best and keeps getting better." Data from the ARMIS report shows the number of incidents and minutes that a switch failed during the previous calendar year. The data is provided by local and regional telephone companies that own and operate lines to customer locations and central office switches. These Local Exchange Carriers are required to report to the FCC all total system switch failures that last two minutes or longer. Analysis of the ARMIS data considers unscheduled unscheduled Adjective not planned or intended Adj. 1. unscheduled - not scheduled or not on a regular schedule; "an unscheduled meeting"; "the plane made an unscheduled stop at Gander for refueling" failures attributable to manufacturers and reveals that Lucent's 5ESS Switch was the most reliable in four areas: -- number of minutes the switch failed to provide service per 10,000 business and residential customer lines -- number of incidents the switch failed to provide service per 1 million residential and business customer lines, -- number of incidents the switch failed per 100 service providers' central offices and -- number of minutes the switch was down per central office. 5ESS Switch sets new performance benchmarks in two categories For every 10,000 customer lines served, Lucent's 5ESS Switch had the least downtime among all competitors in 1997. Analysis of the previous five years of ARMIS data shows that Lucent's 5ESS Switch has led in this category every year. In addition, the 5ESS Switch's 1997 reliability in this category was nearly two times better than its industry leading 1996 reliability. The analysis also shows that the Lucent switch had the smallest number of service interruption incidents per 1 million business and residential lines in 1997, with a marked improvement from its leading performance in 1996. Again, Lucent's 5ESS Switch not only has led in this category for each of the past five years, but set a new benchmark for performance in 1997. 5ESS Switch fails less often and comes back quicker The data analysis shows that the Lucent switch had the industry's smallest number of failures per each service provider's 100 central offices. Lucent also leads in the shortest length of downtime per central office for 1997. All other competitors suffered significantly more downtime. Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. and software, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. For more information about Lucent Technologies, visit the company's web site at http://www.lucent.com. CONTACT: Lucent Technologies Gordon Zwirkoski 847-290-3382 (office) 847-358-7950 (home office) gzwirkoski@lucent.com |
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