Alcatel and Motive Join Forces to Meet Triple Play Digital Home Management Challenge.

PARIS & AUSTIN, Texas -- Alcatel (NYSE:ALA) (Paris:CGEP.PA) and Motive, Inc. (NASDAQ:MOTV) today announced a joint marketing and development agreement that will give service providers worldwide the ability to solve a critical piece of the next-generation broadband services puzzle in a multi-vendor environment: the remote management of home networking devices that deliver Triple Play services (IP-based voice, video, data).

As part of this relationship, the companies will enhance their existing products by jointly developing, marketing and selling a single software solution for automating the deployment, configuration and support of advanced home networking devices called residential gateways, regardless of vendor, platform or operating system.

Triple Play services depend on a more sophisticated infrastructure that includes residential gateways for connecting the provider's network to multiple devices in millions of subscriber homes. All of these devices are subject to constant change, creating a dynamic, highly distributed, new architecture that makes it challenging to deliver and manage a high volume of services. In order to profitably deliver, support and maintain these services, providers must extend their network visibility and control into the residential gateway and all of its connection points. Furthermore, they must ensure a simplified experience for consumers for whom quality of service requirements are higher than ever before.

"Delivering IP-based Triple Play services to the home requires a totally new management paradigm that can address the varied support requirements for each service while keeping things simple for consumers," said Michael Greeson, president, principal analyst for The Diffusion Group. "By joining forces, Alcatel and Motive are uniquely positioned to help service providers automate home gateway provisioning, reduce the complexities associated with gateway management, and stimulate end-user adoption of next-generation services."

"Effective home network management is a must-have for service providers to profitably deliver Triple Play services. Our agreement with Motive is a further step in making these services a reality for our customers and their end-users," said Michel Rahier, president of Alcatel's fixed communications activities.

"The advancement of broadband technology provides tremendous new opportunities for service providers seeking to grow and expand their business in a highly competitive climate," said Scott Harmon, CEO at Motive, Inc. "Our relationship with Alcatel will help operators worldwide implement Triple Play strategies that bring new information, communication and entertainment services to consumers, enabled by the combination of powerful broadband network solutions and customer service management technologies."

About Alcatel

Alcatel provides communications solutions to telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises for delivery of voice, data and video applications to their customers or employees. Alcatel brings its leading position in fixed and mobile broadband networks; applications and services, to help its partners and customers build a user-centric broadband world. With sales of EURO 12.3 billion in 2004, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries.

About Motive, Inc.

Motive, Inc. has pioneered a unique approach to designing management services into Internet-era networks, systems and applications. Motive's software makes complex products and services self-managing, reducing overhead costs and optimizing customers' return on investment. Companies worldwide have relied on Motive's software to provide a range of problem remediation and configuration management tasks for more than 40 million endpoints. Founded in 1997, Motive is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has offices in Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.motive.com.

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