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ACECOMM Wins SUPERCOMM 2002 Award for IP Mediation

ACECOMM received the acknowledgement for its IP mediation deployment at Level 3 Communications. "The sheer number of SUPERQuest Award entries this year -- more than 200 -- reflect the strength and resilience of the industry," said Jack Chelden, General Manager, SUPERCOMM. "These awards celebrate outstanding network achievements and the products, technologies and services that underpinthem. I congratulate the winners on their success."

Sponsored by SUPERCOMM and launched in 1998, the SUPERQuest Awards are designed to recognize the year's best built networks and most promising new technologies, and to honor the key products and technologies launched at SUPERCOMM. Awards are given to exhibitors and customers that have made the most extraordinary achievements in telecommunications worldwide.

"We are delighted to be recognized as a leading OSS/BSS technology and be part of these prestigious industry awards," said Martin Demers, Chief Marketing Officer at ACECOMM. "For service providers today, controlling costs and analyzing IP traffic is crucial to increasing revenues. ACECOMM's mediation system implementation at Level 3 Communications is able to work with multiple protocols and provide records to billing systems in flexible ways. It also provides the analytical tools required to help control costs."

ACECOMM is playing a vital role in the Level 3 network by providing a mediation and rating solution that delivers mission-critical data information to the downstream operations support system (OSS).

ACECOMM's NVISION product collects usage information for OSS applications such as subscriber billing, fraud management, wholesaler/reseller billing, settlement, CABS, and data warehousing. It also performs data validation, normalization, augmentation, and statistical analysis.

About SUPERCOMM

SUPERCOMM, the annual communications and information technology exhibition and conference, is owned jointly by the Telecommunications Industry Association, www.tiaonline.org. Arlington, Va. and the United States Telecom Association, www.usta.org. Washington, DC.

About ACECOMM

ACECOMM is a global leader in advanced Convergent Mediation products and Enterprise Telemanagement applications. Their products are employed in wired and wireless networks that deliver voice, data, mixed media and Internet communications services. Their technology provides the ability for services providers to capture, secure, validate, correlate, augment, and warehouse data from all types of network elements and distribute information, in appropriate form, to all types of OSS (Operations Support Systems) and BSS (Business Support Systems). Their solutions are matched to each customer's environment, providing the analytical tools to extract knowledge from their operating networks -- knowledge they use to generate more revenue, reduce costs, accelerate time-to-market for new services, and deliver more effective customer support.

For more than 20 years, ACECOMM technology has been effectively deployed in over 3500 installations in more than 65 countries world-wide, adding to the success of a broad range of customers and partners such as Marconi, Motorola, General Dynamics, TRW, Unisys and Siemens. ACECOMM is a registered ISO 9001 quality standard company.

For more information, visit www.acecomm.com.