Trillium Digital Systems Inc. Announces Software Portation to Force Computers Hardware for Flexible SS7 and IN Solutions

Business Wire, Sept 29, 1997

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 1997--Trillium Digital Systems Inc., a leading provider of communications software solutions, Monday announced the release and shipment of its Integrated SS7 - Force/VME Platform source code software product.

Trillium's software integration with Force Computers' SPARC-based CPU-5V board will reduce customers' time-to-market in the rapidly expanding telecommunications industry. Trillium's software runs on the Force board and provides the ability to develop applications and services for wireless and wireline infrastructures.

Trillium President and CEO Jeff Lawrence said: "The combination of Trillium's Integrated SS7 protocol stack and Force's SPARC CPU-5V board offers our customers a reliable, high-performance integration of hardware and software. Trillium has already licensed this particular solution to a customer who is developing equipment for the rapidly expanding broadband infrastructure in Korea."

The Integrated SS7 Platform evolved from existing Trillium products. Trillium plans to announce support for additional Force platforms in the future.

"We are pleased with the integration of Trillium's SS7 protocol software stack with Force's highly successful SPARC CPU-5V board and look forward to working with Trillium in the future," said Chris Williams, vice president of marketing for Force Computers. "Applications within the Advanced Intelligent Network requiring high performance and reliable signaling, especially Intelligent Peripherals, will benefit from this powerful solution."

Trillium's Integrated SS7 - Force/VME Platform product has a sophisticated multiboard architecture with higher layer protocols, such as MTP Level 3 and ISUP, running directly on the Force CPU-5V board within a VME card system cage. The hardware for this platform is sold separately by Force Computers.

The Force SPARC CPU-5V is based on the VME bus standard, which is the leading open bus architecture for embedded systems. The SPARC CPU-5V is powered by a microSPARC-II processor and is 100 percent compatible with the Solaris Operating System. A single slot VME computer featuring full SPARCstation5 I/O and SBus functionality, this product is well suited to telecommunications environments with ruggedized field upgradeable mezzanine memory modules.

For more detailed technical information, Trillium has a product data sheet on its Web site: http://www.trillium.com/1083007.html.> Trillium Digital Systems is a leading provider of communications software solutions for computer and communications equipment manufacturers. Trillium develops, licenses and supports standards-based communications software for the Signaling System 7 (SS7), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN), Frame Relay, V5, Internet Protocol (IP) and X.25 communications protocols.

Trillium is also developing solutions for software fault tolerance, Software on Silicon, Java and other emerging technologies. Trillium has licensed its source software to more than 200 companies worldwide for use in a broad range of switching, network access, service platform, operating system and test equipment products. Additional company and product information is available on the Web at http://www.trillium.com .

Force Computers, a Solectron Corp. subsidiary, was founded in 1981 and is a leading supplier of open, scalable system and board-level computer platforms for communications and control applications. With more than 15 years of experience, the processor-independent company delivers products based on SPARC, PowerPC, 68K and Pentium technologies and has built its solid reputation by addressing the specific requirements of its OEM customers in the embedded computer market worldwide.

Force Computers is an ISO 9001 company with corporate headquarters located in San Jose, Calif. European headquarters are located in Munich, Germany, and Japanese headquarters are located in Tokyo. Sales, service and support are provided worldwide via direct offices and a network of distributors and representatives.

Trillium and Trillium Digital Systems are registered trademarks of Trillium Digital Systems. Software on Silicon is a trademark of Trillium Digital Systems. Other referenced trademarks are trademarks (registered or otherwise) of the respective trademark owners.

The CPU-5V is a trademark of Force Computers Inc. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems Inc. All other product names as mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective companies.

CONTACT: Trillium Digital Systems Inc., Los Angeles

Kim Billingsley, 310/442-9222

310/442-1162 (fax)

kim@trillium.com

or

Force Computers Inc., San Jose

Mia Bradway, 408/369-6276

408/371-3992 (fax)

mbradway@fci.com

or

KVO Public Relations

Wanda Cavanaugh, 650/919-2022

wanda@kvo.com