Marconi Ships $33 Million in BXR-48000s to U.S. Government

The U.S. Federal government recently purchased and has taken delivery of a number of Marconi's BXR-48000s. During the fiscal quarter ended 31-March-2004, Marconi shipped the bulk of an order valued at about $33 million, including installation services, for BXR-48000s. These sales were the major driver of the increase in BBRS sales during that period. This contract follows a sale of BXR-48000s to the U.S. Federal government announced in September 2003 that was valued at about $9 million for hardware and services.



Marconi said the BXR-48000 is the only platform that meets the U.S. Federal government's simultaneous requirements for massive data transmission capacity, high-speed encryption support and the broad range of legacy and packet protocols required for applications that enable critical front-line defense, homeland security and intelligence analysis.



Marconi's BXR-48000 is designed to simultaneously handle ATM switching, MPLS switching and IP routing. It offers up to 480 Gbps of full-duplex, deterministically non- blocking throughput (960 Gbps simplex) and an architecture that transports packets and cells in their native format. http://www.marconi.com