Xedia Announces Distribution Agreement with Japan's Sumisho Electronics.

LITTLETON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 1999--

...Company Continues to Expand International Market Presence...

Xedia Corporation, the leading provider of Internet/IP access routers that deliver advanced Quality of Service (QoS) and security, today announced a distribution agreement with Sumisho Electronics, a publicly traded affiliate of the Sumitomo Corporation located in Tokyo, Japan. This agreement expands Xedia's presence from the United States and Europe to now include Asia.

"We're thrilled to have Sumisho Electronics offer Xedia's Access Point products in Japan," said Bob Steinkrauss, president of Xedia Corporation. "With over 20 years of experience, Sumisho is one of Japan's most well known and highly respected high-tech distribution and system integration firms. They supply not only the tools, but also the technical expertise required to be known as Japan's Total Solution Provider."

"Sumisho feels that Xedia's Access Point product line represents the best available solution for our customers' Quality of Service needs," said Takehito Murakami, senior manager at Sumisho Electronics Co. LTD. "With its superior quality and features, the Access Point line offers our customers the best-of-breed technology, flexibility and a high level of performance that can only come from Xedia."

Sumisho has already installed Access Point products to provide prioritization and policy control for web hosting and other diverse kinds of network traffic at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. Ritsumeikan, established in 1869, is one of the largest traditional universities in Japan and will open a new campus named the Asia Pacific University in Kyushu, Japan next April.

"We evaluated many products and found that Xedia's Access Point was the superior solution for managing Internet access that not only ensures Quality of Service, but also helps us control cost," said Shinya Muneshige, manager, Information Center at Ritsumeikan University. "Access Point's Class-Based Queuing provides a very flexible and granular ability to classify our user traffic, define bandwidth policies and enforce policy behavior for each traffic class."

About Access Point

Xedia's Access Point is a next-generation Internet access platform that delivers the IP Quality of Service, performance and VPN security required as customers migrate or outsource business-critical applications to IP/Internet backbone networks.

Xedia products enable a broad range of business Internet applications. The Access Point bandwidth management solutions provide carrier-class bandwidth management to many of the industry's leading Network Providers. The Access Point QoS routers provide Internet-certified routing with the service level visibility and control customers need to manage the cost and quality of their wide area network services. Xedia's Access Point QVPN is the industry's first platform to bring together IP routing, QoS and VPN security with the performance, reliability and service level control needed to build carrier-class Internet VPNs.

About Xedia Corporation

Xedia Corporation, a privately-held, venture-backed corporation is leading the way with a new class of Internet access router delivering the performance, security, and service level control network providers need to deliver the next generation of business-class Internet services. Xedia's Access Point products have been Internet-certified by the industry's leading network providers, such as PSINet (NASDAQ:PSIX) and Sprint (NYSE:FON), and they are deployed in the most demanding business Internet services in the industry today. The company is headquartered in Littleton, MA and can be reached at [phone]. The Xedia Web site can be found at www.xedia.com.

Xedia is a registered trademark and Access Point and QVPN are trademarks of Xedia Corporation. All other brands and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.