ADVISORY/Fujitsu Demonstrates Seamless Interoperability in the Optical Internetworking Forum Booth at SUPERCOMM 2004.

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ADVISORY...for Tuesday (June 22)

SUPERCOMM 2004

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Visit Fujitsu in the OIF SUPERDemo (Hall A, Booth #20334)

    WHY: The interoperability demonstration at SUPERCOMM 2004 proves
        the viability of interoperable control plane technologies and
        is an important first step toward carrier deployment of
        services based on them into individual networks.

    WHAT: Fujitsu will participate in the world's first international,
        joint-carrier, multi-vendor optical networking
        interoperability demonstration of Ethernet over SONET/SDH
        services and dynamic optical networking services. Fujitsu
        FLASHWAVE(R) 4000 Multiservice Provisioning Platforms (MSPPs)
        will power a number of the demonstrations to provide specific
        functionality:

        --  The FLASHWAVE 4020 Ethernet Service Platform (ESP), the
            newest addition to the FLASHWAVE 4000 product line, will
            perform GFP service adaptation for a digital video stream
            in a simulated customer premises application.

        --  The FLASHWAVE 4300 multiservice aggregation platform will
            perform network edge UNI-C signaling adaptation and
            aggregation.

        --  The FLASHWAVE 4500 multiservice transport platform will
            perform core adaptation and participate in MPLS
            operations.

    WHEN: Tuesday, June 22 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

          Wednesday, June 23 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

          Thursday, June 24 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

    WHERE: Hall A, Booth No. 20334 - McCormick Place, Chicago

    WHO: Fujitsu Network Communications Inc., a subsidiary of
        Tokyo-based Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702), is a leading provider
        of customer-focused IT and carrier-class telecommunications
        solutions for the Service Provider and MSO (multiple system
        operator) market in North America. Supported by smart
        innovation and deep-rooted research from Fujitsu Labs, Fujitsu
        is uniquely positioned to design, deploy and maintain
        mission-critical wireline and wireless communications
        solutions for its customers. The company's comprehensive
        consulting and customer services offer support at any network
        design, development, deployment and maintenance stage. For
        more news and information, please visit
        http://www.fujitsu.com/us/telecom.

        The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) is sponsoring the
        industry's first international joint-carrier, multi-vendor
        optical networking interoperability demonstration. The event,
        conducted simultaneously in China, Germany, Italy, Japan and
        the United States will highlight network interoperable
        solutions among the participating vendors employing OIF
        implementation agreements in a multi-carrier environment. The
        participating supplier and carrier companies will conduct
        interoperability testing of Ethernet over SONET/SDH services
        and dynamic optical networking services. Based on ITU-T
        standards for Ethernet service adaptation, the Ethernet over
        SONET/SDH services testing will include the Generic Framing
        Procedure (GFP), Virtual Concatenation (VCAT), and the Link
        Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS). The dynamic optical
        networking interoperability testing will be based on OIF
        implementation agreements for UNI 1.0 release 2 and E-NNI, and
        will include testing of both the control and data plane. These
        implementation agreements are based on the ITU's requirements
        for automatically switched optical networks. Additional
        information can be found at http://www.oiforum.com.