FutureSoft and Dy 4 Systems Partner to Provide the Network Switch for Defense and Aerospace

Business Wire, July 8, 2004

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- FutureSoft, a leading provider of Communications Software Solutions and Services, and Dy 4 Systems Inc., a Business Unit of Curtiss-Wright, announced a strategic partnership to deliver leading-edge networking solutions to the defense and aerospace industry. FutureSoft's Intelligent Switching Solution (ISS), an Advanced Switching and Routing Software System, is integrated on Dy 4's VME-680 SwitchBlade product for defense and aerospace industry applications.

The win-win partnership

This partnership offers a host of benefits to customers, who will be assured of fast, reliable connectivity between chassis, boards, or even CPUs over switched gigabit Ethernet links. It also enables Dy 4 to accelerate its Time-To-Market for its advanced VME-680 SwitchBlade product, by leveraging FutureSoft's ISS Enterprise software and services.

"Through this partnership for ISS and related services, we have increased our portfolio for our clients. This will provide Dy 4 customers with a powerful Gigabit Ethernet switching solution for inter-chassis and inter-card communication." David Wormstone, Director-Single Board Computers and Communications, Dy 4.

"This partnership with Dy 4 provides strong testimony that FuturesSoft's solutions are powerful and robust enough to support the advanced functionality, reliability and support requirements of the defense and aerospace industry." Sarbpreet Singh, President & Chief Operating Officer, FutureSoft.

Bridging functionalities. Building blocks

FutureSoft's Intelligent Switch Solution (ISS) is a pre-integrated, Advanced Switching and Routing Software System. It empowers telecom OEMs and ODMs to build feature-rich switching and routing applications. Its modular design and platform-agnostic architecture allows rapid development of devices ranging across Enterprise, Access, Metro and Wireless segments. The system software supports popular reference designs from Broadcom(R) and Marvell(R). FutureSoft ISS delivers leadership in Layer 2 - Layer 3 by providing advanced features such as MSTP (802.1s), RSTP(802.1w), VLAN(802.1q), Routing(OSPF, RIP, BGP) and Multicast(PIM, DVMRP).

A focus on performance. The favorite of customers.

Dy 4 Systems is a leading supplier of broad range of Commercial-off-the-shelf(COTS) products for the defense and aerospace markets, with a strong focus on high-performance, rugged embedded computing solutions. Dy 4's rugged intelligent multilayer switch provides a major boost to Military and Aerospace Systems Integrators in their VME-based applications. A diverse mix of COTS modules, system level products and integration services makes it the solution provider of choice. Dy 4 Systems lists leading manufacturers like BAE Systems, Boeing, EADS, General Dynamics, Raytheon Systems Company, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman among over 200 customers around the globe.

About FutureSoft

Future Software (www.futsoft.com) is a leading software engineering partner to the global communications and networking industry. From its establishment in 1985, FutureSoft has built vast expertise in IP Switching/Routing, Broadband Access, Wireless and Wireline networking applications. FutureSoft offers complete systems software solutions, re-usable protocol stacks and engineering services including porting, integration and consulting services. FutureSoft is an ISO9001:2000-certified, SEI-CMM-Level-5 assessed company and counts many global networking OEMs as its clients.