Trillium Completes License of Communications Software to Fujitsu Siemens Computers

Business Wire, August 7, 2001

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 2001

Deployment of Trillium's DFT/HA and Integrated Stack Manager

Product Offerings Enables Seamless Mobile Access

to Internet and Web-Based Applications

Trillium Digital Systems Inc., an Intel company and leading provider of communications software solutions, announced today that it has completed the license of its Distributed Fault-Tolerant/High-Availability (DFT/HA) software and Integrated Stack Manager (ISM) product offerings to Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Munich/Germany, a leading European computer company.

This will assist in Fujitsu Siemens Computers' Business Critical Computing and Mobility initiative by providing cutting-edge, high availability communications software that helps mobile users access advanced applications such as high-end telecommunications applications, finance solutions, and other carrier-grade Web-based services.

As equipment manufacturers race to develop and deploy next generation network elements, they are building solutions with best-in-class, off-the-shelf, standard components from multiple vendors to help reduce risk and time-to-market. They face the daunting task of ensuring optimal integration of these components without sacrificing the performance and availability characteristics of the network elements.

Trillium's DFT/HA software product offering in combination with Fujitsu Siemens Computers RTP resilient technology provides a consistent framework to enable over five nines (99.999 percent) system-wide availability. In addition, Trillium's DFT/HA offering provides a unique framework to help systems scale with increasing loads, which ensures glitch-free system operation.

Trillium's ISM helps speed the integration and management of communications protocol stacks, and provides application programming interfaces for ease of integration with any vendor's system management framework. By being one of the first to deploy both Trillium's DFT/HA and ISM products, Fujitsu Siemens Computers aims to optimize network performance and availability, and is assured of lower overall system integration costs that enables them to focus their efforts and resources on value added system differentiation.

"Trillium's team of experienced technicians stationed throughout the world understands the particular needs of their local customers and provides time- and cost-saving communications solutions to help develop highly available and scalable network elements," said Frank Morese, vice president of marketing for Trillium Digital Systems Inc. "Our relationship with Fujitsu Siemens Computers demonstrates Trillium's commitment to growth in Europe and illustrates how we are meeting the needs of top-tier customers by providing solutions that make next generation networks a reality."

Boosted by the convergence of the Public Switched Telephone Network, IP and wireless networks and the tremendous growth in electronic and mobile commerce, the need for highly available and scalable network elements has become increasingly acute. Telephone companies and their equipment manufacturers have set standards for five nines availability that other network elements in a converged network must meet.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers, with its RTP resilient technology and aided by Trillium's DFT/HA and ISM products, is well positioned to address the needs of these carrier-grade networks. Fujitsu Siemens Computers provides intelligent networks, SoftSwitches, 3G components and E/M business solutions to network equipment manufacturers, integrators and ISVs for their critical, carrier-grade applications.

With its solid presence in North America, Europe and Asia, Trillium prides itself in providing customers with support from local technical teams and the knowledge base from a global network of experts. Strong support from Trillium's local German technical team jointly with excellent engineering back-up helped alleviate Fujitsu Siemens Computers' concerns over the deployment of next generation networks. Furthermore, through close cooperation, Trillium is able to help Fujitsu Siemens Computers shorten development cycles for its RTP resilient technology package as the basis for high performance solutions.

"Trillium's cutting-edge product offerings provide us with the competitive advantage to accelerate time-to-market for the development of components and resilient technology packages for next generation network elements," said Jens-Peter Seick, Executive Director Line of Business UNIX at Fujitsu Siemens Computers. "Being one of the first to deploy Trillium's DFT/HA and ISM products helps Fujitsu Siemens Computers set new standards for system performance by assuring mobile users uninterrupted anytime, anywhere access to Internet services and applications."

About Fujitsu Siemens Computers

Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European computer company and offers one of the world's most complete product and solution portfolios. Its world-leading technology and innovative IT products span the entire range of personal computing and enterprise computing needs. With extensive manufacturing facilities in Germany and more than 7,000 employees serving its customers, the company operates in 25 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.