Telcordia Technologies Announces One Infrastructure for Operations Support Systems

Business Wire, June 4, 2001

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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2001

Telcordia Integrated Operations Infrastructure Significantly Improves

Operational Efficiency, Speeds Time to Market

SUPERCOMM 2001 Booth #4747/4847

Communications software and solutions provider Telcordia Technologies, Inc. today announced the Telcordia(TM) Integrated Operations Infrastructure, an enabling software solutions platform for operations support systems (OSS), which will support a broad array of services over a variety of networks.

Communications service providers will use solutions built on this integrated Infrastructure to support next generation multimedia services, including voice, data and video, that will be provided over wireline and wireless broadband networks.

"We are helping our global customers achieve operational excellence by simplifying the complexities of the current OSS environment," said Jerry Roberto, executive vice president, Telcordia Technologies. "The new Telcordia Infrastructure will enable our customers to improve solutions delivery, increase efficiency and deliver converged services."

The Infrastructure supports pre-integrated solutions, the first of which will be The Telcordia(TM) High Speed Data Operations solution, scheduled for first customer shipment in September 2001. This solution supports ATM, ADSL and Frame Relay services. Additional pre-integrated solutions will support Managed IP services, SONET/SDH and Optical Network Management, which will be available within the next year.

"Historically, service providers have used a best-of-breed approach in implementing the OSS required to address their end-to-end business processes, usually resulting in time consuming and expensive integration efforts that often fell short of business expectations," said Karl Whitelock, Stratecast Partners OSS program director. "The Telcordia Integrated Operations Infrastructure is a clear example of how software vendors must provide OSS solutions that address end-to-end business problems at the data, operations architecture and functional application levels."

The Infrastructure streamlines service provider operations by extending the following features:

- One Network Database - making information management easy and efficient and
resulting in better data integrity, increased flow-through and reduced data
management costs.

- One Network GUI - delivering a powerful new JAVA(R) compliant Graphical User
Interface to optimize network management tasks and to replace multiple GUI's
for each individual OSS.

- One Network Interface -- reducing costs and eliminating operational
bottlenecks by providing a standards-based interface for OSS solutions to
communicate with network elements and the Element Management System (EMS) for
configuration, fault management and performance management optimization.

- One Security Logon - simplifying ease-of-use, improving security and
administration and complimenting existing enterprise-wide security procedures
by allowing users to log into OSS solutions once, eliminating the requirement
for multiple application logons.

- One Software Installation - lowering administration and operations costs by
providing a single shared software installation process for multiple OSS
applications.

- One Computing Platform -- eliminating the need to manage and maintain
multiple proprietary platforms by providing a standard, UNIX-based, operating
environment. An Oracle(R) DBMS increases flow-through and offers a single
network view while lowering network integration costs and simplifying
operations. The platform provides software version management, simplifying
system management and promoting network reliability.

About Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

Telcordia Technologies, Inc., an SAIC company, is one of the world's largest providers of operations support systems, network software and consulting and engineering services to the telecommunications industry. A leader in the development of Next Generation Network technologies, Telcordia employs more than 7,000 professionals, and has revenues of more than $1.6 billion. Telcordia (www.telcordia.com) is headquartered in Morristown, NJ with offices throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Central and South America and Asia Pacific.

Telcordia Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of SAIC. Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements or industry results to be very different from the results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Some of these factors include, but are not limited to, the risk factors set forth in SAIC's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended January 31, 2001, and such other filings that the Company makes with the SEC from time to time. Due to such uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.