SUPERCOMM and CMP Media's 'tele.com' and 'InternetWeek' Present Second Annual Superquest Awards for Network-Technology Implementation

- Twelve Category Winners Named at SUPERCOMM '99 -

PRNewswire
ATLANTA
Jun 9, 1999

The second annual SUPERQuest Awards, established to recognize outstanding achievements in the implementation of network technology, were presented last night by CMP Media's 'tele.com' and 'InternetWeek' publications together with SUPERCOMM. Organizations were rewarded in 12 categories at a gala ceremony as part of the SUPERCOMM '99 conference and exhibition being held in Atlanta.

The SUPERQuest Awards showcase implementations of public and private network solutions, and the key product/technology involved in those solutions that have advanced business for the customer. The program also recognizes the most promising new technologies represented on the SUPERCOMM show floor.

"The SUPERQuest Awards are clearly among the most prestigious ways that our industry celebrates technology in action," said Jack Chalden, SUPERCOMM General Manager. "SUPERQuest winners have combined innovation and customer service to provide flexible solutions for their companies and business partners."

  SUPERQuest Award winners are:

        Category                          Winner

  Local Access Services           NorthPoint Communications
                                  Copper Mountain Networks, Inc.

  Operations Support              BellSouth Telecomunications
  Systems                         Informix Software, Inc

  Backbone Bandwidth              Williams Communications Group
                                  Sycamore Networks

  IP Services                     WorldPort Communications, Inc.
                                  Lucent Technologies

  Digital Subscriber             Advanced Fibre Communications
  Line Equipment

  Optical Network Equipment       SilkRoad, Inc.

  Wireless Technology             MRV Communications

  IP Technology                   Bridgewater Systems Corporation

  Enterprise Access               Washington State Department of
  Network                         Information Services

  VPN Technology                  NetReality

  Enterprise IP Telephony         Sensible Office Solutions, Inc.

  Access Technology               Lucent Technologies

"The solutions orientation of the SUPERQuest Awards program recognizes unmatched excellence and unprecedented achievements in communications networks, in both enterprise or private networks, as well as the public network arena," said 'tele.com' Publisher Laurel Nelson-Rowe. "The more than 130 entries highlight our strong dedication to the challenges facing the world of communications during this past year and into the future."

As the world's premier annual communications technology industry event, SUPERCOMM comprehensively addresses every segment of global communications through its 400,000+ net square foot exhibit floor, 240+ educational conferences and more than 700 speakers. SUPERCOMM is presented jointly by the Telecommunications Industry Association, Arlington, Va., and the United States Telephone Association, Washington, D.C.

CMP's 'InternetWeek' is the news and analysis source for 215,000 IS/network managers applying Internet technologies to transform enterprise networks. CMP Media's 'tele.com,' winner of two 1998 Jesse H. Neal editorial awards, is the only publication delivering comprehensive, global coverage of the business and technology issues facing next-generation public-network service providers. CMP Media Inc. is a leading high-tech media company that provides essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum -- the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide.

SOURCE: CMP Media Inc.

Contact: Alexandra J. Raine of CMP, 516-562-7827 or araine@cmp.com; or
Leah File, 404-222-6250 or lfile@stackig.com, for CMP

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