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Newpoint Technologies Awarded Multiple Contracts
Awards Solidify Leading Role as the Preferred NMS Supplier for Hybrid Networks
Salem, NH USA, July 26, 2001-- Newpoint Technologies Inc., a leading provider of network management solutions and developer of the innovative and award-winning Newpoint Compass network management software, announced that it has recently been awarded five major contracts further solidifying its role as the preferred NMS supplier for hybrid networks.
Commenting on the contracts, Paul Houle, president and CEO of Newpoint, stated, "These contracts, along with other high profile industry awards, allow Newpoint to maintain its rapid sales growth and expand its global presence. Selection of Newpoint by these new customers is a reflection of the reputation that Newpoint products have established and the of the strength and capabilities of our product suite."
Highlights of the contracts include the following:
Echostar
Echostar is a leader in DTH television, with the capability to offer over 500 digital video, data and audio channels of programming, including local networks and HDTV, to over five million customers nationwide. Newpoint Compass will manage their new DTH transmission facility in the Gilbert, AZ facility.
BPL Telecom Ltd, India
BPL Telecom, part of the BPL Group of companies with annual sales US$ 1 Billion, has recently agreed to represent and market Newpoint products and services through its Advanced Network Services Group (ASNG) in India. ANSG offers end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate & government clients in India, and they join the growing team of international representatives of Newpoint products and services.
According to BPL Telecom, "Newpoint's products and services have great market potential in India". This was recently confirmed when BPL and Newpoint won their first contract together to provide a network management system for VSNL, a Telecom provider in India.
Telcel Venezuela
Telcel, a Bell South company, provides mobile phone, Internet, VPN, and long distance services to three million customers in Venezuela. Newpoint has been contracted to deliver an integrated system, based on Newpoint Compass, that will manage Telcel's cell phone distribution network. Newpoint was selected for the application based on its known track record and its ability to easily manage the array of devices that make up the Telcel system.
Edward Jones Investment
For more than 125 years, Edward Jones has been helping individuals invest for financial security. With two billion dollars in yearly business, and over 7,100 offices in three countries, the reliability of its communications infrastructure is critical. The Newpoint Compass and Newpoint Stratus systems delivered to Edward Jones Investments will manage their network. The Newpoint solution will reduce system failures by monitoring their critical carriers, and reduce meantime to recovery.
TVNZ - Television New Zealand
The state-owned television broadcaster of New Zealand runs two television networks and a service company that develops builds and operates Broadcast and Telecommunications networks.
The selection of an "Out of the box" software package that is open and easily configured was a key point in TVNZ's selection of Newpoint Compass. TVNZ staff recently completed training at the Newpoint facility in Salem, NH and will implement their system using TVNZ< personnel.
About Newpoint Technologies
Headquartered in Salem, NH, Newpoint Technologies, Inc. provides solutions for management of communications infrastructure networks, including satellite, terrestrial, Internet, and broadcast using TMN guidelines. Our offerings range from "Out of the box" software to complete turnkey solutions for managing large enterprise level infrastructure systems.
We work with partner companies in both software and hardware, companies providing integrated solutions, OEM's, local integrators, Value Added Resellers, plus a number of industry experts, to provide enterprise-level network management systems. Currently Windows 2000, SUN Solaris and Linux operating systems are supported.
Compass is a highly flexible software package with a real data-accessing speed advantage. The Compass real-time data server, with its special indexing algorithm, can support data updates (even within very large systems) in milliseconds.
Mercury provides management of remote resources with capabilities that include real-time performance, Web-browser interface, local logic, replication and dial-back connection on loss of primary communications.