Objectivity & OpenCon Demonstrate Industry-First Network Management Application at Supercomm; Objectivity Inc. Teams with Motorola to Deliver TMN Solutions

Business Wire, June 18, 1996

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 1996-- Objectivity, Inc. will demonstrate a Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier (NGDLC) application in the Motorola booth at Supercomm in Dallas, June 24 - 27.

This state-of-the-art telecommunications network manager, built by OpenCon Systems, Inc. (OCS) and based on Objectivity/DB is being demonstrated on both Motorola XR TM Series platform and on Microsoft Windows. The software, designed specifically for telecommunications providers, continuously monitors system availability, alarms and performance. It manages TR-303 standard managed objects in Objectivity/DB, the high performance, distributed object database.

Traditional telecommunications management network (TMN) applications have been developed on either proprietary or legacy relational databases, and typically support only local network management. However, the new combination of Objectivity/DB and OCS's Generalized Element Management System (GEMS) can transparently distribute the management information base (MIB) across a network. Objectivity/DB can provide a single logical view of the distributed MIB to all network element managers across heterogeneous hardware platforms.

According to Steven Gordon, Vice President of Marketing for OCS, "Now NGDLC equipment plus transmission and switching elements can all be managed in this open and uniform manner. GEMS demonstrates how to fully maintain the rich functionality of an object oriented environment reaping the benefits of code and object reuse."

This NGDLC application is similar to others already in use by Objectivity customers such as Siemens and Qualcomm. "Our OEM customers require high performance systems they can rely on. Both Objectivity's software and Motorola's hardware are uniquely designed to meet the needs of the telecommunications industry," explained David Caplan, Objectivity's President and CEO.

About Objectivity, Inc.

Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., Objectivity is the leading supplier of high performance object databases to software and equipment manufacturers in the telecommunications, manufacturing, and internet markets. Objectivity customer applications range from network management to advanced web servers. The company sells direct and through distributors from eight offices in North America and fourteen offices in Europe and Asia.

Objectivity/DB is an ODMG-compliant, distributed object database, available on 14 NT and UNIX platforms that supports language interfaces for C , Smalltalk, and ANSI SQL-92 (ODBC and JDBC). Unlike other databases, Objectivity/DB is built on a distributed architecture which makes possible advanced features for fault tolerance and data replication.

About OpenCon Systems

OpenCon Systems, Inc. is a privately held corporation headquartered at 377 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, N.J., with a branch office in Denver. OpenCon Systems has been delivering Bellcore-certified quality systems for equipment suppliers of SONET, SDH, SGDLC and OSI/TMN based systems for over five years. -0-

Note to Editors: Objectivity and Objectivity/DB are registered trademarks of Objectivity Inc. Other brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

CONTACT: Objectivity, Inc.

Linda Haskin, 415/254-7170

linda.haskin@objy.com

or

OpenCon Systems, Inc.

Josna Kachroo, 908/463-3131

josna@opencon.com