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Samsung Selects TranSwitch As Preferred VLSI Component Supplier for W-CDMA Wireless Platform

Posted on: Tuesday, 17 February 2004, 06:00 CST

Versatile CellBus Architecture and CUBIT Family Deliver Value

Through Four Generations of Samsung Wireless Infrastructure Products

¶ TranSwitch(R) Corporation (NASDAQ: TXCC) announced today that Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.'s Telecommunication Systems Division has selected TranSwitch's patented CellBus(R) technology as well as CUBIT-Pro(TM) and CUBIT-3(TM) switching devices for Samsung's W-CDMA and 3G-CDMA wireless platform for Base Transceiver Stations (BTS). TranSwitch has been designated a Samsung Electronics preferred vendor for wireless VLSI solutions. ¶ Samsung's W-CDMA, the company's most advanced 3G-CDMA platform, offers carriers a seamless migration to the new standard of wireless technology. W-CDMA delivers higher performance, including high speed data service and twice the voice capacity compared with existing 2G systems. ¶ The dramatic growth of the Internet requires reliable high speed wireless transmission to provide a range of multimedia services. TranSwitch's industry-leading CellBus switching technology and CUBIT-Pro and CUBIT-3 products deliver the high speed data handling capability for the W-CDMA platform. The advanced functionality of CUBIT-Pro and CUBIT-3, together with guaranteed CellBus/CUBIT(R) interoperability and software compatibility, enables Samsung Electronics to eliminate a number of external components, shrink system board area, and dramatically reduce system and software integration time and costs. The TranSwitch CUBIT family has offered the basis for cost-effective ATM cell, IP packet/frame relay, and voice switching and multiplexing systems to OEM customers since 1995. ¶ CellBus, a patented bus-based switch fabric technology for edge and access networks developed by TranSwitch, has been adopted into the system designs of over 40 customers, including the top five global telecom systems suppliers. It enables OEMs to meet the exponential growth in service demand as broadband deployment increases at the network edge. Other TranSwitch products extend both the functionality and performance of CellBus-based systems, allowing customers to easily migrate this technology to next-generation designs. ¶ In October 2001 TranSwitch entered into a strategic alliance agreement with Samsung Electronics for the development of their next-generation networking solutions. TranSwitch has been designated a preferred supplier and strategic partner of the Systems R&D Team at Samsung's Telecommunication Systems Divison. TranSwitch is also collaborating with Samsung Electronics on key wireline applications. ¶"This agreement reinforces a longstanding relationship between TranSwitch and Samsung Electronics and represents the opportunity going forward to align the TranSwitch roadmap with the Samsung Electronics product roadmap," stated Dr. Santanu Das, President and CEO of TranSwitch Corporation. "Samsung Electronics has been one of our most strategic customers for over half a decade. The agreement recognizes both TranSwitch's contribution to accelerating Samsung's time-to-market and TranSwitch's key support of Samsung's growing global wireless market."

¶ About Samsung Electronics:

¶ Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunications, flat panel display and digital convergence technology. Samsung Electronics employs approximately 75,000 people in 89 offices across 47 countries. The company is the world's largest producer of CDMA mobile phones and infra, memory chips, TFT-LCDs, monitors and VCRs. Samsung Electronics consists of six main business units: Corporate Technology Operations, Digital Media Business, Telecommunication Network Business, Digital Appliance Business, Semiconductor Business, and LCD Business. For more information, please visit http://www.samsung.com.

¶ About TranSwitch Corporation:

¶ TranSwitch Corporation, headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, is a leading developer and global supplier of innovative high-speed VLSI semiconductor solutions - Connectivity Engines(TM) - to original equipment manufacturers who serve three end-markets: the Worldwide Public Network Infrastructure, the Internet Infrastructure, and corporate Wide Area Networks (WANs). Combining its in-depth understanding of applicable global communication standards and its world-class expertise in semiconductor design, TranSwitch Corporation implements communications standards in VLSI solutions which deliver high levels of performance. Committed to providing high-quality products and service, TranSwitch Corporation, Shelton, CT is an ISO 9001:2000 registered company. Detailed information on TranSwitch products, news announcements, seminars, service and support is available on TranSwitch's home page at the World Wide Website - http://www.transwitch.com.

¶ Forward-looking statements in this release, including statements regarding management's expectations for future financial results and the markets for TranSwitch's products, are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that these forward-looking statements regarding TranSwitch, its operations and its financial results involve risks and uncertainties, including without limitation risks of downturns in economic conditions generally and in the telecommunications and data communications markets and the semiconductor industry specifically; risks in product development and market acceptance of and demand for TranSwitch's products and products developed by TranSwitch's customers; risks relating to TranSwitch's indebtedness; risks of failing to attract and retain key managerial and technical personnel; risks associated with foreign sales and high customer concentration; risks associated with competition and competitive pricing pressures; risks associated with investing in new businesses; risks of dependence on third-party VLSI fabrication facilities; risks related to intellectual property rights and litigation; risks in technology development and commercialization; and other risks detailed in TranSwitch's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. ¶ TranSwitch, CellBus, and CUBIT are registered trademarks of TranSwitch Corporation. CUBIT-Pro and CUBIT-3 are trademarks of TranSwitch Corporation.

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