SANTERAONE PLATFORM HAS IXC TANDEM REPLACEABLITY.

Santera Systems Inc., Plano, Texas, a provider of now-and next-generation switching solutions, has announced that the SanteraOne platform has complete IXC Tandem replacement functionality and is commercially available for installation in networks. In addition, Santera has added wireless functionality to its media gateway, allowing it to operate in a wireless network.

Today's Inter Exchange Carriers are facing a market where long distance traffic is growing. Yet, revenues are declining by an average of 14 percent annually largely due to dramatic increases in wireless traffic across their networks. In addition, many of their long-distance switches have reached maximum capacity and are only circuit-based, not allowing for growth or next-generation services. With these factors playing against them, these carriers are not able to achieve the capital and operating cost savings they need to succeed.

"SanteraOne's increased functionality provides carriers that have both long distance and wireless networks the ability to collapse their network architecture ultimately providing both operating and capital cost benefits," said San-Qi Li, chief technology officer for Santera Systems. "With our switch, we're able to offer carriers a cost-effective solution to grow their networks, provide them the means to develop revenue-generating services, and ease the current capacity strains their networks are feeling due to increased long-distance traffic."

"Carriers in today's turbulent market are looking for infrastructure upgrades that will reduce costs and introduce new services, without compromising the reliability of their networks," said Joe McGarvey, senior analyst with Current Analysis. "As circuit-based tandem switches reach exhaustion, carriers have the option of replacing these monolithic systems with a packet-based alternative that requires only a fraction of the space and operational costs of circuit switches. The SanteraOne can help carriers reduce the cost of operating their long distance networks, as well as provide a migration path to a next-generation packet-based network."

Currently in lab trials with Beta customers, the SanteraOne with this increased functionality will be in field applications end of first quarter 2003.

About Santera

Santera Systems Inc., located in Plano, Texas, offers a carrier-class next-generation switch with both trunk and line functionality, enabling true circuit to packet migration. In its core applications of enhanced voice switching, integrated voice and data switching, and voice over broadband, Santera delivers significant capital and operating cost efficiencies of 50 to 70 percent. The founding pioneers of next-generation companies Cascade, Shasta, Ardent, and Arris created Santera Systems in 1998. More information can be obtained at www.santera.com or by calling either 972/461-6300 or 866/519-9000.

About SanteraOne

SanteraOne is a carrier-grade integrated voice and data switching solution delivering key applications such as full feature IXC Tandem, Class 4/5, PRI Offload, packet/cell switching and Voice over Broadband (VoB) services all on a single platform. SanteraOne has both circuit (TDM) and packet fabrics and supports all of the regulatory requirements of a legacy system (including LNP, CALEA and E911) enabling a graceful migration from traditional circuit-based networks to next generation packet-based technology such as ATM, Frame Relay & IP. SanteraOne is comprised of the Open Feature Exchange (OFX), which includes a media gateway controller, signaling gateway and an applications server; the SanteraOne Broadband Office Exchange (BoX), which is a high-density media gateway; and the SanteraOne element management system (NetScan) that delivers common GUI-based management of the complete system.

For more information, call 972/461-6323 or visit http://www.santera.com.

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