Network Plus Chooses Ace*Comm for DW Solutions

Network Plus, a leading integrated communications provider (ICP) of voice and broadband data business telecommunications products, has announced that it has chosen Ace*Comm Corporation and its data warehousing solutions to provide a solution for its business infrastructure and bill record architecture. The N*Vision product solution will facilitate the coordination of bill data between Network Plus' local and long distance switches and create an organization standard of how all calls are managed.

The deployment of this software package will enable Network Plus to extract billing records in real-time, increasing the efficiency of troubleshooting any network errors between its local and long distance switches. The N*Vision product also enables Network Plus to expedite resolutions on network anomalies as well as give real-time access to call detail records.

"The ability to augment our systems to have a faster ability to troubleshoot network occurrences is pertinent to our business, especially with the large increase of traffic we project over our present and future switches," commented Joseph Larizza, CIO and executive vice president of Operations for Network Plus. "Ace*Comm showed us a reliable organization plan for this endeavor where we can implement a plan of how we look at the calls being made and manage them."

Network Plus currently has operational DMS250 long distance switches in Chicago, IL, and Orlando, FL, DMS 250 and DMS 300 switches in Quincy, MA, and Los Angeles, CA, and Lucent 5ESS local exchange switches in New York, NY, Cambridge, MA, and Miami, FL, with future switches planned in several more markets. Ace*Comm's solution will coordinate between these switches and have the ability to interface with Network Plus' current billing program, giving Network Plus personnel the ability to extract records from one source, rather than multiple sources.

"Network Plus is at the center of our target market for N*Vision," according to Gino Picasso, Ace*Comm's president & Chief Operating Officer. "This product fits the operations needs of growing communications providers who recognize the value of real time, Convergent Mediation and data warehousing solutions in meeting their business, marketing and customer information needs. This system is designed to grow with the service provider and adapt to changing customer service demands. We are very pleased to have been selected by Network Plus and look forward to a successful partnership with them."

More About Network Plus

Founded in 1990, Network Plus is based outside of Boston in Quincy, Massachusetts, with sales offices along the eastern seaboard. Network Plus is a network-based integrated communications provider (ICP) offering broadband data and voice telecommunications service, primarily to small and medium-sized business customers located in major markets in the northeastern and southeastern regions of the United States. Network Plus operates and owns local, long distance, and data networks in the northeastern and southeastern United States. Currently, Network Plus sells its services from each of its twelve branch sales offices as well as through its wholesale channels across the country and manages it network from its Network Monitoring and Surveillance Center in Melville, NY, as well as its Data Centers in New York, NY, and Cambridge, MA. In June 1999, the company became publicly traded on the Nasdaq National Market. More information about Network Plus can be found via the company's Web site at www.np1.com or by calling 888-NET-PLUS.

More About Ace*Comm

Ace*Comm delivers product based solutions for Telecommunications and Internet service providers worldwide. The Company develops Convergent Mediation, billing and telemanagement technology that capture, manage, warehouse and distribute, in real-time, network usage and event data used in carrier operations. The company provides these solutions and related services for voice, conventional data and Internet Protocol (IP) based networks. These Operations Support System (OSS) elements are provided to a broad range of customers, carrying both public and private communications traffic, and include wireless and wireless Internet carriers, incumbent and competitive local exchange carriers, national and international long distance carriers, Internet services providers and enterprises.

For more information on the company and to view a transcript of a recent interview by the Wall Street Corporate Reporter with the company Chief Executive Officer refer to www.acecomm.com, Investor Relations Page, e-mail investor@acecomm.com or call 301-721-3123.