Yankee Group Names Xedia Annual Upside/Downside Winner.

LITTLETON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 1999--

...Company Recognized in Upside Magazine as High Tech Power Player

in the Communications Equipment Category...

Xedia Corporation, the leading provider of Internet/IP access routers that deliver advanced Quality of Service (QoS) and VPN security, today announced that it has been named an Annual Upside/Downside winner by the Yankee Group in Upside Magazine. The online article can be found on the Upside Today Web site at: http://e450.upside.com/static/feature/UpsideDownside/communications. html.

Along with the other winners, such as Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO), Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU) and Northern Telecom (NYSE:NT), Xedia was chosen based on five criteria that evaluated the prospects of the high tech power players: market share leadership, innovation, overseas strength, strategic alliances and management, which the article stated were all factors that have an overwhelming influence on a company's ability to stay atop of the high-tech heap.

Xedia's received its highest score, five stars, for its management success. As stated in the article by Yankee Group's Howard Anderson, "Management has successfully retooled this switch vendor into a virtual private networks and bandwidth management company. Its products give service providers such as UUNet Technologies Inc. (a unit of MCI Worldcom Inc.) the ability to offer differentiated services and charge a premium for them."

"We're very pleased that the industry is recognizing our success," said Bob Steinkrauss, president of Xedia Corporation. "Our award-winning Access Point products, which provide advanced Internet access routing with IP QoS and VPN security, are being deployed by leading network providers who are building a new generation of business Internet services."

Accessing the Power of the Internet

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 today 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 are 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 Internet providers, including PSINet (NASDAQ:PSIX) and Sprint (NYSE:FON), and they are now being deployed in the most demanding business Internet services in the industry. 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.