"With EMC Smarts, McLeodUSA can continue to deliver value-added services to
its customers at affordable costs, while continuing to exceed a customer
satisfaction rating of 92% and network reliability performance of 99."
"To continue to achieve its goal of providing world-class
telecommunications services, McLeodUSA demanded a management solution that
could provide real-time, actionable intelligence about customer networks,
applications and business services," said Peter Eck, Director of Product
Marketing, EMC Software.

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About Altitude Telecom
Established in 1995, Altitude Telecom is a multi-service
telecommunications service provider that invests in broadband technologies to
provide data, Internet and voice solutions to businesses all over France.

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We selected Cirpack to secure the best VoIP technologies and
leverage this experience in our WiMAX deployments.com
About CIRPACK
CIRPACK develops next generation voice switching platform that can be
connected to TDM, ATM and IP networks to deliver advanced phone services to
all types of subscribers simultaneously and provide seamless migration of
wireline networks to IMS/TISPAN architecture. With over 2
million Class-5 licences deployed, and over 45 telco customers in 15
countries, CIRPACK is the largest softswitch vendor in Europe, third
worldwide.

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EMC.

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"
McLeodUSA provides voice, data, wireless and Internet services under the
Preferred Advantage(R ) product portfolio to residential and business
customers.com. "We are proud that
Altitude selected Cirpack to handle all its voice services which will
probably be one of the first VoWiMAX deployment in the world. Other company, product and service names may be
trademarks or service marks of others .

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"
Smarts software solutions detect and help customers rapidly resolve the IT
management problems that affect business services.5GHz
throughout France, Altitude was the first operator in the world to deploy
802.

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Altitude will now use Cirpack's carrier-grade softswitch and
gateway products to leverage this state-of-the-art wireless infrastructure
and offer innovative voice over IP services in addition to its IP VPN and IP
MPLS services.

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Altitude Telecom to Offer Voice Services over WiMAX with Cirpack Switches

Leading Softswitch Vendor and Wireless Operator Sign Contract for First
VoIP Over WiMAX Service

PARIS, CIRPACK, developer of next generation
voice switches for operators' infrastructures, today announced that Altitude
Telecom, the largest fixed -wireless operator in France, deployed Cirpack's
Class-5 switches to launch telephony services over WiMAX for businesses.

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About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world leader in products, services and
solutions for information storage and management that help organizations
extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost,
across every point in the information lifecycle. Using
Cirpack switches, Altitude can now offer a complete set of data, internet and
telephony services and provide enterprises with a true alternative for their
telecom needs," explains Fabrice Ballart, Altitude Telecom's Deputy General
Manager, Voice services.

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EMC Smarts Software to Enable Service Management for Full Range of
Integrated Communications Services

HOPKINTON, Mass.

Contact:
Craig Librett
EMC Smarts
914-798 -8664
librett_craig@emc.
As the only service provider with a license to operate in the 3. CIRPACK works with industry
leaders such as IBM Global Services to provide global solutions.

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"With the launch of our next-generation Voice-over-IP services and
enhanced Managed Services offerings , we are committed to utilizing the most
reliable, secure, and cost-effective technology in our network ," said Andreas
Papanicolaou, Executive Vice President of Network Services at McLeodUSA. "With a unique ability to dynamically pinpoint
service-affecting problems across technology domains -- immediately
calculating that problem's impact on critical customer services -- EMC Smarts
is quickly becoming a logical choice for today's leading service providers.
Altitude has always been successful and has now grown to being a major
operator," explains Jean-Pierre Dumolard, Cirpack's CEO.
It serves many administrations and large companies throughout the country
with a broad range of services, including IP VPN MPLS, LAN-to-LAN links,
internet access, web hosting, and network engineering using various wired and
wireless telecommunications technologies. For more information, please visit http://www .cirpack.
Cirpack, the Cirpack logo and "Switch to the Alternative!" are registered
trademarks of Cirpack SAS.

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Information about EMC's
products and services can be found at http://www. This further
demonstrates the maturity of the Cirpack Class-5 switch technology that more
and more service providers around the world choose to offer telephony
services over broadband, both to residential and business users. Cirpack enables toll-grade VoIP services on a very large scale
while ensuring compliance with regulatory features and PSTN termination using
any flavors of SS7.com.

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999%."
Cirpack Class-5 switches are carrier-class equipment offering flexible
connectivity interfaces and advanced switching software in one high
availability system that can be connected to TDM, ATM and IP networks and
configured for centralized or distributed architectures.

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, EMC Corporation today
announced that McLeodUSA Incorporated (Nasdaq: MCLD), one of the nation's
largest independent competitive telecommunications services providers, has
selected the Cisco Network Connectivity Center (CNCC) for the company's range
of integrated communications services.

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Enterprise, service
provider and government organizations leverage the software's comprehensive
discovery, built-in information model, intelligent analytics and advanced
automation to conduct real-time root cause and impact analysis and gain
unprecedented insight into how technology health impacts business."
"Altitude Telecom has a long track record of deploying innovative
technologies such as WiMAX to bring smart telecom services to market. For more information, visit
http://www.

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CNCC uses EMC Smarts software as its
core IP management engine. Smarts
technology also enables service providers to automatically diagnose end-to-end
network-level problems that disrupt the reliable delivery of communications
services . By
automating high-cost, labor-intensive tasks, Smarts software enables customers
to improve quality of service, lower operating costs, increase revenue and
reduce business risk.

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All other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Under CNCC, Cisco offers a broad range of EMC Smarts solutions, including
Service Assurance Manager, IP Availability Manager, IP Performance Manager,
Business Impact Manager, Application Services Manager, Application
Connectivity Manager, MPLS -VPN Manager, Network Protocol Manager, ATM/Frame
Relay Manager, Report Manager and Business Dashboard . It provides carrier-grade
reliability, scalability and regulatory features for massive deployments of
broadband telephony and IP Centrex for instance as well as of legacy PSTN
infrastructures delivering ISDN or POTS services.

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"We're very proud of our history of working with Cisco," said Dennis
Hoffman , Vice President of Product Marketing, EMC Software. Using a range of Smarts solutions, McLeodUSA is able to gain end-
to-end visibility into its wide array of integrated communications services
and automate detection and root cause analysis of network faults.

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McLeodUSA Selects Cisco Systems and EMC Corporation as Core Management Technology to Power VoIP Managed Services

"WiMAX is a perfect technology to bridge the digital divide.

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"The combination
of Cisco and EMC management software provides customers like McLeodUSA with
solutions that embed expanded intelligence and automate the most difficult
tasks in IT infrastructure management. "Being at the heart of the largest VoIP deployments
in Europe, Cirpack has demonstrated its switches can deliver telephony over
broadband with quality and reliability that matches those of legacy PSTN
services.altitudetelecom.

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EMC and Smarts are registered trademarks of EMC Corporation.16d-compliant WiMAX equipment to offer wireless broadband connectivity to
small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as well as to large businesses and
administrations.

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Cirpack switches
offer a full catalog of Class-5 and IP Centrex services for easy deployment
of telephony services over broadband that matches the features and quality of
the PSTN.
Altitude is the leader in the 26 GHz and 3,5 GHz wireless market in France.

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