News Release
Carrier Access Ships 100,000th Adit® 600 Multi-service Delivery Terminal
Versatile, Scalable Solution Enables Cost-effective VoIP Service Access and Voice-Data Convergence
BOULDER, COLORADO - October 17, 2006 - Carrier Access Corporation (NASDAQ: CACS), a leading provider of converged access solutions, announced the shipment of the 100,000th Adit 600 Multi-service Delivery Terminal. The field-proven Adit 600 continues to implement new levels of converged access performance for an installed base of approximately two million customer lines. This customer base has continuously grown since the Adit 600 product line first started shipments in the Spring of 2000.With its patented, expandable design, the Adit 600 provides customized, cost-saving solutions to a leading list of wireline and wireless carriers, businesses, and Federal government users. The Adit 600 has evolved into a next-generation multi-service platform that fits in many applications - including a wide variety of VoIP telephone line conversions, traditional TDM 0/1 cross-connect, plus multi-T1 IP router and legacy data conversions. The Adit 600 is used today by leading service providers and end users in thousands of business premises, central offices, multi-dwelling units (MDUs), government networks, and wireless carrier cell sites. It provides a services terminal for public service providers, as well as an enterprise services gateway for business, education and government networks - integrating existing applications into next generation, all-IP converged networks.
"The Adit 600 has provided our carrier, government, wireless and business customers with a cost-effective and service-enhancing choice,” said Hal Sveum, General Manager for Walker and Associates (www.walkerfirst.com
“We are very proud to have provided the equipment and software quality and reliability needed by leading service providers. The durable and expansive Adit 600 platform provides economical and reliable customer connections to service networks that are continuously evolving toward converged IP services,” said Dennis Gatens, CTO Converged Access Sales of Carrier Access. “As customers have requested new revenue-generating service capabilities, we have continued to develop new service cards and software to meet their requirements. The Adit 600's compact form factor and service densities have been at the heart of its wide-spread adoption and implementation. The Adit platform provides a cost-effective solution to upgrade traditional communications services to IP, while minimizing service disruptions due to power, network, or environmental factors.”
Adit 600 is a member of the Adit product family of converged access terminals. For more information on the continuously expanding range of Adit converged IP access solutions, VoIP software partners, and applications support, please call 303-218-5707.
About Carrier Access Corporation
Carrier Access (NASDAQ: CACS) provides consolidated access technology designed to streamline the communication network operations of carriers, enterprises and government agencies. Carrier Access products enable customers to consolidate and upgrade access capacity, and implement converged IP services while lowering costs and accelerating service revenue. Carrier Access' technologies help our customers do more with less.
For more information, visit www.carrieraccess.com
Forward-Looking Statement Caution
This press release contains forward-looking statements, which reflect management's best judgment based on factors currently known. However, these statements involve risks and uncertainties, including the successful development and market acceptance of new products, the ability to sell new products into new and existing customers, the degree of competition in the market for such products, changing customer requirements, projected savings on capital expenditures and operational savings achieved through deployment of products by customers, delays in the development and shipment of new products, shipment of 100,000 Adit units does not mean that additional shipments of Adit will be made or will made at same rate, and other risks detailed in our SEC filings including our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005. Such risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements included in this press release. Carrier Access does not undertake any obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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