Announcements made today:
Xylan and IBM implement service agreement
CALABASAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 1997-- Xylan Corp Wednesday announced that IBM Corp. will work with
Xylan as a key service provider, allowing Xylan to offer its customers on-site hardware replacement for all of its products sold in
the United States, using IBM's network of qualified customer engineers.
Xylan's new four-hour on-site service program will initially be launched in 30 cities.
Ed Zaval, Xylan's vice president of service and support, said: "This is an important addition to our service and support offerings.
IBM will stock spares, train its field personnel and deliver rapid-response on-site service to our customers. It's an important part
of the strategic relationship between our two companies."
Xylan and BellSouth announce contract
CALABASAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 1997--BellSouth has entered into a three-year contract with Xylan Corp
to use Xylan's OmniSwitch and PizzaSwitch products in the carrier's Native Mode LAN Interconnection (NMLI) service.
NMLI is a transparent LAN interconnection service designed to connect customers' LANs, at native speed, across BellSouth's
network. BellSouth currently offers Ethernet and Token Ring LAN connectivity, and plans to add Fast Ethernet connectivity to the
service offering.
The Xylan switch technology will enable BellSouth to gracefully migrate its NMLI service from the current architecture to a more
robust network architecture, handle the wide variety of network interfaces and protocols that customers are using, and provide
platforms that can be used to deploy world-class service offerings. |
