RadiSys and GoAhead Offer First Standards-Based, Pre-Integrated High Availability AdvancedTCA Solution; Application Ready Platform Helps Equipment Manufacturers Speed Time-to-Market and Reduce Costs

Business Wire, August 8, 2006

HILLSBORO, Ore. & BELLEVUE, Wash. -- RadiSys (R) Corporation (NASDAQ: RSYS), the leader in advanced embedded systems, and GoAhead(R) Software, the expert in high availability middleware for systems requiring 99.999% availability or greater, today announced the first standards-based, pre-integrated high availability Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA) solution. By integrating RadiSys Promentum(TM), a common managed platform for network element and dataplane applications, with GoAhead SelfReliant(R), standards-based high availability middleware, equipment manufacturers can significantly accelerate time to market and reduce project costs.

"With rising pressure on equipment manufacturers to cut costs, shorten development cycles and differentiate their products, they are transitioning from proprietary solutions to those comprised of standards-based components," explains Jim Ewel, GoAhead CEO. "GoAhead is pleased to work with RadiSys to pave the way for this cost-conscious and time-efficient approach by offering the first pre-integrated, application-ready solution," says Ewel.

The integrated solution includes validated, out-of-box capabilities such as platform management and comprehensive high availability and system management. Areas of focus include resource discovery and system model instantiation, shelf manager integration, alarm management, hot swap management and integration with RadiSys specific systems management capabilities. All of this is accomplished using the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) Hardware Platform Interface (HPI). With this functionality, equipment manufacturers are able to realize the benefits of integration without having the burden of this significant undertaking themselves, enabling them to shift focus to the value-added application layer.

"The use of ATCA is accelerating, and we are seeing growing demand from our customers for a turn-key, application-ready ATCA platform," states Scott Grout, RadiSys CEO. "RadiSys is pleased to be working with GoAhead to enable us to deliver turn-key, high availability solutions to our customers for their most demanding applications," Grout says.

One such customer is Operax, a leading provider of carrier-grade solutions for Quality of Service (QoS) control in multi-service networks. Operax utilized both RadiSys and GoAhead for its next generation triple play application, Bandwidth Manager 5500. This application is in the critical path for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) services as well as non-IMS services such as IPTV. Service providers commonly regard it as a network element in terms of requirements for performance, scalability, availability and management. By utilizing standards-based solutions, Operax was able to ensure availability requirements were met as well as meet a stringent development cycle, deploying the new product only six months after the project began. Operax Bandwidth manager 5500 recently earned a carrier-grade stamp of approval after an independent evaluation by an incumbent telecom operator with more than 10 million broadband lines. http://www.operax.com/news/operax_and_partners_.asp

"By leveraging standards-based solutions such as those from RadiSys and GoAhead, we were able to develop a common high availability platform across carrier-class bandwidth management solutions," says Emil Svanberg, Operax vice president of product management. "This made it possible to significantly decrease our development and integration costs and achieve an extremely aggressive time-to-market target," Svanberg continues.

Availability

This integration will be available in Q4 of calendar year 2006.

About RadiSys

RadiSys (Nasdaq: RSYS) is the leading provider of advanced embedded solutions for the communications networking and commercial systems markets. Through intimate customer collaboration and combining innovative technologies and industry leading architecture, RadiSys helps OEMs bring better products to market faster and more economically. RadiSys products include embedded boards, platforms and systems, which are used in today's complex computing, processing and network intensive applications.

For more information, contact RadiSys at info@radisys.com or call 800-950-0044 or 503-615-1100. For press information only, contact Lyn Pangares, RadiSys Corporation, 503-615-1220, lyn.pangares@radisys.com.

About GoAhead

GoAhead(R) Software is the expert in building integrated middleware for telecom equipment manufacturers and military/aerospace equipment contractors requiring extremely high availability. By providing a fully integrated, application ready platform, GoAhead products and services help equipment manufacturers achieve faster time to market and lower development costs. Deployed on more than 10,000 nodes worldwide, GoAhead delivers the software and the expertise necessary to ensure success for a broad range of development projects such as wireless base station controllers, Node Bs, softswitches, defense applications and industrial controllers. GoAhead is a privately held company with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. For more information on GoAhead, visit www.goahead.com or call 425-453-1900. For press information, contact Lacy Williams at 425-468-5417 or lwilliams@goahead.com.