Trillium Announces A Solution for Seamless Portation of its Communications Protocol Software to Microsoft Windows NT

Business Wire, June 1, 1998

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 1998--Trillium Digital Systems Inc., a leading provider of communications software solutions, announced a solution that enables the seamless portation of Trillium's protocol source code software to Microsoft Windows NT.

Trillium's solution for Windows NT will enable computer and communications equipment manufacturers to deliver their products to customers faster and more cost-effectively.

Trillium's new Multi-threaded Systems Services (MTSS) software for Windows NT provides interface functions to Microsoft Windows NT. It enables the execution of any Trillium software product on a Windows NT 4.x Workstation or Server. Because all Trillium products are based on the consistent Trillium Advanced Portability Architecture (TAPA), this new Trillium software works seamlessly with all of Trillium's broad range of software products.

"Windows NT Server is today being used widely as a base platform for delivering and managing telecommunications services,"said Jonathan Usher, telecom industry marketing manager for Microsoft. "Trillium's Multi-threaded Systems Services reflects this momentum and has the potential to help reduce time to market for equipment manufacturers as they bring Windows NT Server-based telecommunications solutions to market."

Trillium Chief Technology Officer Larisa Chistyakov said: "Windows NT is a cost-effective solution for a variety of products, including open platforms, manufactured by our customers. Our MTSS software is part of our continuing effort to help our customers build products using Windows NT.

"It will form the basis for several upcoming products that are currently in development at Trillium, and, naturally, we will continue to develop software solutions for current and future versions of the Windows NT environment," added Chistyakov.

About Trillium's MTSS Software for Windows NT

Trillium's MTSS software for Windows NT is extremely flexible, affording customers a range of features to meet their needs. Trillium's MTSS software for Windows NT includes the interface required to enable Trillium software to run in the Windows NT environment and includes task initialization, task management, timer management, message management and queue management functions.

Trillium's MTSS software is multi-threaded to enable customers to create more scaleable and higher performance solutions for Windows NT. Customers can use the MTSS software to run complete or partial Trillium protocol stacks in either the Kernel space or User space of Windows NT, depending on the desired mix of flexibility and performance.

The product also supports a single-threaded mode for optimized execution in the User space of Windows NT. It provides a STREAMS-compliant interface for message management and also provides error-logging mechanisms to ease application development and debugging.

Trillium's MTSS software for Windows NT is available immediately. 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 solutions for Signalling System 7 (SS7), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), V5, Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN), Frame Relay, Internet Protocol (IP) and X.25/X.75 technologies.

Trillium is also developing solutions for fault-tolerance/high-availability, interworking, wireless, mobility, Software on Silicon, Java and other emerging technologies. Trillium has licensed its source code 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.

Trillium provides its products in the C programming language, along with documentation, training and support as standard deliverables. Trillium was founded in 1988 and is commemorating its 10th anniversary. Additional company and product information is available on the Web at http://www.trillium.com.

NOTE TO EDITORS: Trillium and Trillium Digital Systems are registered trademarks of Trillium Digital Systems Inc. Software on Silicon and TAPA are trademarks of Trillium Digital Systems Inc. Other trademarks are trademarks (registered or otherwise) of the respective trademark owners.

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