Telcordia Teams With CTI2 To Offer Enhanced Unified Communications Services

Business Wire, March 20, 2001

Business Editors/Hi Tech Writers

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2001

Providing a Portal for Real-Time Management of Personal and Business

Communications Using Mobile and WAP-Enabled Phones, Wireline Phones,

PDA, Email and Java-Enabled Devices, including Pagers

Telcordia Technologies, Inc. today announced an agreement with CTI Squared Ltd. (CTI(2)) to offer robust, carrier-grade, scalable IP-based Unified Communications services for wireless and wireline carriers, ASPs, ISPs and other providers. Telcordia has enhanced its Unified Communications offering with CTI(2) W.W. Office(TM) platform, now offering end-users a communications portal for real-time management of all calls, messages and information through a single resource.

Telcordia Unified Communications solutions go beyond conventional unified messaging by providing enhanced Next Generation Network services, such as instant messaging, presence management and push/pull content delivery, through one easily manageable interface that users can access at any time, from any place, on any device, across any network. The W.W. Office platform is the first unified communications platform to bring together the capabilities of the Internet and public switched telephone network (PSTN), mobile networks and voice-over-IP networks and devices.

"Unified Communications gives service providers a powerful tool to increase revenues by offering diverse enhanced services that will help them build multiple relationships with subscribers, reducing churn," said David Burns, corporate vice president and president of Telcordia Professional Services. "Our agreement with CTI(2) enables us to provide service providers worldwide a system with rich call management services, instant voice and text messaging and presence management, on top of basic unified voice, text, and fax messaging services."

Telcordia is a leading consultant and provider of end-to-end, carrier-grade Unified Communications systems integration services. Telcordia offers turnkey Unified Communications solutions that encompass a lifecycle approach, including business plan development and cost modeling; program and project management; architecture design and engineering; solution integration; hardware staging and configuration; training; testing, support and maintenance; and ongoing operations. With broad experience in the area of Unified Messaging, the company has ready-for-commercial-service deployments in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

"Our customers around the world insist on the highest standards for integration, installation and support," said Erez Marom, CEO of CTI(2). "Working with Telcordia helps us extend and enhance our infrastructure and ability to support our customers wherever they are, and W.W.Office provides Telcordia with a reliable and scalable Unified Communications platform they can deliver today."

The CTI(2) W.W.Office platform is an IP standards-based Unified Communications platform incorporating a suite of integrated enhanced services applications including W.W. Messager for Unified Messaging, W.W.Communicator(TM) for instant messaging and presence management, and W.W.Agent(TM) for online research, content delivery and m-commerce. W.W.Messager gives subscribers a single mailbox for managing email, voice, SMS, pager and fax messages according to subscriber instructions. The unified mailbox is accessible and manageable by telephone, mobile phone, WAP-enabled phone, pager, PDA, e-mail client application, Web browser or Java-enabled device. W.W.Messager automatically converts messages between media, so users are no longer bound by the device they are using.

The W.W. Office Unified Communications platform provides carrier-grade reliability and scalability to millions of users. The product is available today and is deployed by service providers around the world.

About CTI(2)

CTI(2) develops, manufactures and markets W.W.Office(TM), a Unified Communications platform designed to help service providers become a Communications Portal. As the market leader, W.W.Office fully integrates data and voice messaging services over Internet, PSTN and cellular networks. CTI(2)'s enhanced, value-added services give telecommunications service providers new and effective ways to attract and retain subscribers, generate new revenue streams and reduce costs. CTI(2) can be found on the World Wide Web at www.cti2.com.

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 $1.5 billion. Telcordia (www.telcordia.com) is headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey with offices throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Central and South America and Asia Pacific.

CTI(2), the CTI(2) logo, W.W.Office, W.W.Messager, W.W.Communicator and W.W.Agent are trademarks of CTI Squared Ltd.