Ascom Nexion announces new member to the award winning NEXEN 2000 product family; NEXEN 2200L delivers cascading capability at the LAN connecting up to 240 users

Business Wire, March 12, 1996

ACTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 1996--Ascom Nexion announced today the release of the NEXEN 2200L, an entry level communications slave unit, that operates with a NEXEN 2200.

The product enables desktop-to-desktop connectivity for current frame-based applications, and emerging multimedia and Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) applications, across existing Local Area Networks. It has sixteen ports and can be cascaded to allow up to 240 users to be connected at any one time.

The new NEXEN 2200L features full compatibility with the most common LAN wiring system - Ethernet 10baseT unshielded twisted pair. This ensures no new wiring is required and the existing network infrastructure comprised of applications, routers, bridges, and segment switches continue to be used - protecting current investments.

"The NEXEN 2200L provides network managers with a practical path to expanding a network economically," said Alan Dzeijma, Product Marketing Director, NEXEN 2000 Product Family. "The combination of call control and signaling with local and wide area interfaces permits the integration of high-bandwidth communications with regular Ethernet traffic over existing cabling. This enables the NEXEN 2000 Product Family to transparently serve as the customer premises interface to the ISDN and Ethernet infrastructure or, in the near future, ATM-based public network services."

The NEXEN 2200L uses Isochronous Ethernet, a technology standardized by IEEE 802.9a, to integrate circuit and frame services required by voice, video and data traffic over existing category 3 (unshielded twisted pair) wiring infrastructures.

Price, Availability

The NEXEN 2200L is priced at US$9,500. Product demonstrations and availability are immediate.

Ascom Nexion

Ascom Nexion Inc., headquartered in Massachusetts, USA, is pioneering the worldwide implementation of new generation integrated service bandwidth manager products - the NEXEN product family. The NEXEN product family is designed to provide users with high quality, enduring network system solutions aligned with dynamic business needs and interoperable with today's networks. Ascom Nexion is an operating company of the Ascom Group - a Swiss-based telecommunications company with revenues of $2.8 billion in 1995 and 12,500 employees worldwide. -0-

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CONTACT: John Stewart

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stewart@nexen.com

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