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U.S. Army Qualifies Xylan Switches For Use In
Networks Worldwide
Calabasas, Calif. – November 10, 1998 - Xylan Corporation
(NASDAQ: XYLN) today announced that the U.S. Army has qualified Xylan LAN and ATM
networking equipment for use in Army facilities worldwide. Xylan successfully completed
comprehensive LAN-to-ATM switching performance and interoperability tests conducted by the
Army, which expands the company's eligibility to compete for the Army's LAN and ATM
networking contracts.
The Army tests showed that the OmniSwitch provides a powerful and complete system for
both LAN edge and ATM backbone switching requirements, and that it can interoperate with
ATM switches and routers from other manufacturers. "With its successful completion of
the Army's tests, the OmniSwitch demonstrates world-class switching performance and
interoperability," said Brett Michaels, Xylan director of federal sales. "This
further demonstrates Xylan's industry leadership in the integration of LANs and ATM for
end-to-end networks."
U.S. Army testing
In testing conducted by the Army's Technology Integration Center (TIC) at Ft. Huachuca,
AZ, the OmniSwitch passed a series of performance, network reliability, network stability,
and network recovery tests. The tests simulated the full-speed data traffic generated by
3,000 simulated users spread over 32 workstations, and focused on ATM Forum standards for
LAN Emulation and PNNI. Simulated traffic included FTP, TELNET, web surfing, email, and
MPEG-1 video streaming. Traffic mixes were varied with different distributions and loading
to fully test the Xylan products.
These tests are a very important step toward the Army's goal of building a service-wide
ATM network that offers each facility, along with the Army's Project Manager for
Installation of Networks, the ability to select the equipment best suited for its
application. Xylan has demonstrated that it can be a reliable vendor in this
infrastructure. The Army Technology Integration Center will be testing Xylan's layer-three
switching and Gigabit Ethernet products in the near future. In the ATM test, the
combination of Xylan's high-performance 10/100 modules and ATM buffering helped the
OmniSwitch to excel at handling the high rates of incoming data. As a result, Xylan is now
an approved vendor for the Army's Common User Interface Transport Network (CUITN) project.
The company can also sell its products to any Army base that needs networking equipment.
About Xylan
Xylan Corporation is one of the fastest growing internetworking companies in history.
Its networks are used by many of the world's largest governments, corporations, and
service providers. In the enterprise, Xylan's networks are so powerful that they allow a
user to bypass an entire generation of network change. They combine ease of management,
high performance, and easy integration with existing equipment and software. For service
providers, Xylan builds equipment for high-speed multi-service VPNs. Xylan's solutions
integrate broad connectivity options, advanced software for partitioning and security, and
any-to-any switching. Xylan helps service providers build profitable networks.
Xylan's products combine LAN switching, ATM switching, layer-three switching, and wide
area switching, and are distinguished by advanced architectures and chip designs. Xylan's
Switched Network Services takes switching to the next step: a comprehensive set of
services that offers integrated directory-enabled networking, IP address management, user
authentication, IP firewalls, quality of service, and routing and switching of multicast
data. More information about Xylan and its products is available at www.xylan.com.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
These statements may differ materially from actual future events or results. Readers are
referred to the documents filed by Xylan with the SEC, including the company's most recent
report on Form 10-K and 10-Q,
which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those
contained in the forward-looking statements.
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