Integral Access PurePacketCompact Named Product of the Year by Communications Solutions and Internet Telephony Magazines

New IP/MPLS Access Platform for In-Building and Small Campus Applications Honored by Two Leading Service Provider Publications

CHELMSFORD, Mass. - Jan. 2, 2002 - Integral Access, Inc. -- the intelligent IP access network company -- today announced that its PurePacketCompact™ access services aggregation platform for in-building, small campus, and low density applications, has been named Product of the Year for 2001 by both Communications Solutions magazine and Internet Telephony magazine - two premier publications that cover convergence and IP telephony technologies. PurePacketCompact will appear in the January issue of both publications.

"Receiving Product of the Year honors from two highly respected publications like Communications Solutions and Internet Telephony is a great honor," said Guy Chenard, vice president marketing and business development, Integral Access. "These awards not only recognize the technological innovation of the PurePacketCompact, but also the operational efficiencies it provides for creating and delivering integrated voice and broadband services to small campus and building-based customers."

The PurePacketCompact is the newest addition to the PurePacket™ family of integrated access products. It is the first system for office buildings, hotels, apartment complexes, and campuses that enables Local Exchange Carriers (LECs) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to deliver all voice, video, and data access services from a single network platform. The IP/MPLS-based PurePacketCompact is a high density, wall/rack-mountable system that enables service providers to establish Mini Points of Presence (Mini-POPs) inside a building or small campus. Using a single PurePacketCompact, and customer-located PurePacketOUTburstÒ Integrated Access Devices (IADs), carriers can provide a comprehensive range of integrated services including:

• Analog and digital PBX
• Converged voice and data
• Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS)
• LAN extension
• Tiered Data Services
• ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network)
• SDSL, G.shdsl, ADSL
• Centrex - Basic and ISDN BRI
  

PurePacket Overview

The PurePacket integrated access network solution enables carriers to deliver all services over a single network using virtually any transport media including copper pairs, xDSL, leased lines, and fiber links. It is the first and only 100 percent packet-based solution that uses an MPLS-based fabric to make connectionless networks behave like their connection-oriented predecessors. PurePacket enables service providers to guarantee QoS for latency sensitive voice calls and video transmissions, dynamically allocate bandwidth between voice, video and data applications, and offer/bill for multiple classes of service. The PurePacket solution is composed of PurePacketOUTburst customer premises IADs; PurePacketNode® carrier class network aggregation devices for central offices, co-locations, and points of presence; PurePacketCompact which provides the same service capabilities as the PurePacketNode for in-building, small campus or low density applications; and the PurePacketOMS™ for network/element control and services management.

About Integral Access

Integral Access, Inc. provides multi-service packet-based access network solutions that enable carriers to offer differentiated services and combine voice/data on next generation IP-based networks, as well as traditional circuit switched and ATM infrastructures. The company offers a complete access network solution, which includes customer premises equipment, in-building/small campus and central office aggregation devices, and an operations management system for network control and services management. Integral Access is based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA, and is privately held.

To contact Integral Access call +1-978-256-8833, visit us on the Web at http://www.integralaccess.com, or write to info@integralaccess.com.

Note to editors:

PurePacket, PurePacketCompact, and PurePacketOMS are trademarks of Integral Access, Inc. OUTburst, PurePacketNode, PurePacketPower, Integral Access, and the Integral Access logo are registered trademarks of Integral Access, Inc.