TOLLBRIDGE TECHNOLOGIES AND COPPER MOUNTAIN TO SPONSOR WORKSHOP ON REVENUE-ENHANCING DSL SERVICES AT BROADBAND MTU 2000 SUMMIT
Companies will Demonstrate How Service Providers can Leverage DSL for Higher Revenues with VoDSL and Other Advanced ServicesSANTA CLARA, Calif., October 10, 2000 - TollBridge Technologies, the North American market-share leader of integrated, carrier-class voice solutions for broadband networks, and Copper Mountain Networks, Inc., (Nasdaq: CMTN) a leading provider of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) solutions for business and residential users, today announced that the two companies will present a workshop on leveraging DSL to create high-value services at the Broadband MTU 2000 Summit. The workshop, Successfully Deploying High Speed Access Technologies for the MTU Sector, is aimed at service providers and building owners/managers in the multi-tenant unit (MTU) market. TollBridge and Copper Mountain will present the workshop on Wednesday, October 11 at 1:30 PM at the New York, New York Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. [Editors' Note: Please visit www.icmny.com for more information on workshop dates and locations]. Successfully Deploying DSL-Based Services for the MTU Sector DSL has proven to be an optimal broadband technology for serving business and residential tenants in small, medium and large buildings. This workshop gives service providers and MTU owners and managers the opportunity to learn how to leverage DSL to offer revenue-generating services and be profitable at the same time. During the workshop, TollBridge and Copper Mountain will address the following topics: - The DSL services market opportunity and business case
- How to maximize return on investment with multiple revenue-generating services such as Internet access, Voice over DSL (VoDSL), Video, Frame Relay services, and Enterprise VPNs
- Establishing and enhancing QoS
- Components that speed DSL deployments for a nationwide footprint and service provisioning-the DSL concentrator, CPE, and voice gateway
- Simplifying always-on high-bandwidth connections for tenants
- Benefits for service providers, property owners/managers, and tenants
Immediately following the workshop, TollBridge Technologies and Copper Mountain will host a live demonstration of VoDSL as an MTU application using Copper Mountain's MTU DSL Concentrator and TollBridge's TB 200 Voice Gateway "Our relationship with Copper Mountain gives us access to the fastest growing market segment in DSL," said Agnes Imregh, vice president of marketing at TollBridge Technologies. "The MTU market is the sweet spot in the DSL market, and this joint workshop will show property owners how easily in-building technology can be used to generate high-margin revenue by provisioning multiple services. TollBridge knows better than anyone what's necessary to address this market in terms of cost, connectivity, functionality, and revenue." U.S. DSL MTU Market The total potential U.S. in-building DSL market is estimated at 14 million subscribers. Building owners/managers and service providers can offer multiple, high-speed access services over DSL-including Internet Access, VoDSL, video, and Frame Relay services-to enhance revenues and profitability. "DSL has proven to be an optimal broadband technology for serving business and residential tenants in small, medium, and large buildings," said Richard Sekar, director of MTU product marketing at Copper Mountain Networks. "This workshop will provide building owners an opportunity to understand the key steps for creating and identifying services, rapid deployment, and maximizing return on investment." About Copper Mountain Networks Inc. Copper Mountain Networks, Inc., (Nasdaq: CMTN) develops and markets a comprehensive family of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) solutions that enable high-speed internetworking over existing copper facilities. The company's mission is to enable carriers and other service providers to offer a full range of high-performance, cost-effective data and voice services over DSL that are easy to deploy, use, and manage. Copper Mountain's CopperRocket CPE family addresses the bandwidth, reliability, ease-of-use, and cost concerns of remote offices and users. Its CopperEdge DSL concentrators, OnPrem multi-tenant unit (MTU) concentrators, and CopperView network management solutions offer a robust and scalable platform for carriers and multi-tenant unit service providers to generate a high return on investment while satisfying the ever-increasing user demand for bandwidth. Customers wanting more information about Copper Mountain products can contact Richard Washbourne at 1.650.687.3380 or visit the company's World Wide Web site at http://www.coppermountain.com. For investor relations information, call toll free 1.877.INFO.CMTN (463.6268) or contact the company at IR@coppermountain.com. About TollBridge Technologies Founded in March 1998 and located in Santa Clara, Calif., TollBridge Technologies-selected as one of UPSIDE magazine's Top 100 Private Companies (May 2000)-is the leading provider of high-quality voice-over-broadband solutions to the new generation of carriers. TollBridge's solutions change the economics of delivering voice services to small-businesses and consumers by allowing carriers that own Class 5 switches to use broadband access technologies (such as DSL, cable, and wireless), to use alternative technologies in the local loop, and to deliver toll-quality voice and integrated data services. For more information on TollBridge Technologies, visit the company Web site at www.tollbridgetech.com, or contact Rich Farana at (408) 585-2146. Portions of this release contain forward-looking statements regarding future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Copper Mountain wishes to caution you that there are some factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results indicated by such statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, quarterly fluctuations in operating results attributable to the timing and amount of orders for our products, the concentration of our revenue in a small number of customers, risks related to integrating the operations and products of OnPrem Networks with our own operations and product offerings, risks related to our rapid growth, factors affecting the rate of DSL deployment by our customers, market acceptance of our products, our ability to keep pace with rapidly changing product requirements, and factors affecting the demand for DSL technologies. We refer you to the documents Copper Mountain files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically the section titled Risk Factors in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1999 and other reports and filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copper Mountain and all Copper Mountain product names are trademarks of Copper Mountain Networks, Inc. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective holders.
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