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Trendium and Siemens Host VoIP Service Management Demo at the Fall CompTel/ASCENT Show; Trendium Chairs Track Sessions on Service Management

Business Wire, Nov 1, 2004

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Trendium announced today that it will demo its award-winning ServicePATH(R) VoIP Performance and Service Management products in conjunction with the Siemens(R) (NYSE:SI) SURPASS(R) hiQ 8000 Internet Protocol (IP) switching and service delivery platform at the IPCC Booth #717, at the CompTel/ASCENT Fall Convention & Expo, October 31 - November 2 in Orlando. The demo will show carriers and SPs of all types how they can monitor, manage and accurately report on their VoIP service, application and service performance in real-time, going beyond traditional fault management to predict problems before they occur.

"VoIP networks are finally being developed on a widespread basis; however, the five 9s availability that we became accustomed to from the public switched telephone network remains illusive," said Dr. Hanafy Meleis, President and CEO of Trendium. "This service level will not be consistently attainable until networks become application aware and employ true service intelligence. We look forward to showing service providers how this can be consistently accomplished at CompTel/ASCENT show."

ServicePATH is a sophisticated, plug-and-play service intelligence system that can collect and synthesize data from networks, applications/business processes and OSS. This synthesized data model is then used to assess and assure service delivery in real-time. The system identifies anomalies as they occur, pinpointing their cause and analyzing their effects on services and the business. Furthermore, ServicePATH can automatically initiate corrective actions to ensure optimum service delivery and customer satisfaction. The ServicePATH service intelligence system has been designed to help manage and assure any type of service, offering complete service and technology agility.

"To drive profitable revenues with VoIP, service providers need not only technology, but tools to manage the end-to-end network and trusted integrators to deploy applications that remove communication chaos," said Harald Braun, President of Siemens Carrier Networks, a division of Siemens Communications, Inc. "We are pleased to be at CompTel/ASCENT, demonstrating these types of real-time VoIP solutions with Trendium."

Trendium will Chair the following panel session on Tuesday, November 2, from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. at the show:

Track 1: OSS for Next-Generation Networks, Tuesday

    Session Leader: Dr. Hanafy Meleis, Vice Chairman, IPCC; President
    and CEO, Trendium; Speakers:

        --  Harald J. Braun, President, Carrier Networks Division,
            Siemens

        --  Robert Maher, CTO, Netrake

        --  Patrick MeLampy, CTO and Cofounder, Acme Packet

        --  Raj Sharma, Founder and President, NexTone

"We are pleased to assist the IPCC by Chairing these educational sessions on Service Management at CompTel/ASCENT," said Dr. Meleis. "This session will get to the heart of the practical service management issues confronted by carriers and service providers as they deploy VoIP products and services."

About Trendium, Inc.

Winner of the "Best New OSS Product - 2002" and "InfoVision-Software" awards, Trendium, Inc. is a software company whose service intelligence and performance management solutions have been deployed at several leading global service providers and enterprises. Trendium's ServicePATH(R) policy-based management software enables customers to optimize service performance, manage services and Service Level Agreements and assure service quality in real time over virtually any infrastructure end-to-end: networks, operation systems, applications and business processes. With service intelligence, service providers and enterprises can create new revenue streams, identify unused service capacity and rapidly prototype and deliver high-margin assured-quality services. Trendium's PerforMAX(R) software enables enterprises and service providers to monitor, manage and accurately report on network, data center and application performance in real-time. For more information, please visit www.trendium.com.

About Siemens Communications, Inc.

Siemens Communications, Inc. offers its customers a broad portfolio of communication products and services and is a leader in convergent technologies, products and services for wireless, fixed and enterprise networks. The company's portfolio ranges from devices for end users to complex network infrastructures and complementary services for enterprises, carriers and service providers. Siemens Communications, Inc. is headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla. For more information, visit www.usa.siemens.com/communications.> NOTE: SURPASS is a registered trademark of Siemens AG. All other company, brand, product, and service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.