Atreus Systems Joins Juniper OSS Alliance to Deliver Advanced IP Service Solutions.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 15, 2004 Partnership Enables Xspedius Communications to Speed the Delivery of Voice over IP, Virtual Private Network, and Advanced IT Services to Their Marketplace Atreus Systems(TM), the IP service provisioning leader, today announced an alliance with Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) is an information technology company based in Sunnyvale, California and founded in 1996. The company designs and sells Internet Protocol network products and services. , Inc. (Nasdaq:JNPR JNPR Juniper Networks, Inc. (stock symbol) ) that will enable service providers worldwide to accelerate revenue from IP services. The alliance combines Juniper's M & T-series, the industry's first core routing platform that delivers high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , reliability and intelligent services at multi-terabit scale with Atreus' proven service fulfillment solution to support development and delivery of advanced IP services. In a related announcement, Xspedius Communications, an Integrated Communications Provider serving small and medium-sized businesses, has selected Juniper and Atreus to deliver an extensive service portfolio including VoIP, VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. and advanced IT services to their marketplace. The interoperable solutions allows Xspedius to efficiently and rapidly deploy IP services for its small and medium-sized business customers across its entire footprint - including 20 states, plus the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , for a total of 45 markets. "Juniper Networks and Atreus Systems have provided Xspedius with a solution that will allow us to maximize the profitability of our IP network," said Harold Teets, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Xspedius. "The joint solution provides us with a service-rich network and operational infrastructure to cost-effectively introduce a wide range of advanced, revenue-generating services our business and residential customers have come to expect from Xspedius." "We are pleased to have Atreus join the OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. Alliance Program. The success at Xspedius Communications highlights the value of the Atreus/Juniper Networks relationship to our customers' business," said Tony Scarfo, Vice President of Partner Management, Juniper Networks. "Atreus' leading IP service definition and fulfillment capabilities combined with Juniper Networks' advanced routing solutions deliver a powerful solution for providers looking to rapidly deliver IP-based revenue-generating services." "We are pleased to partner with Juniper to deliver cost-effective, revenue-generating IP solutions for service providers," said Len Castelli, Vice President of Business Development & Product Management, Atreus Systems. "Through this agreement, service providers have a compelling combination that will help them achieve enhanced overall operational efficiency and faster time to market for new services like VoIP and VPN." About Juniper Networks, Inc. Juniper Networks transforms the business of networking by creating competitive advantage for our customers with superior networking and security solutions. Juniper Networks is dedicated to customers who derive strategic value from their networks, including global network operators, enterprises, government agencies and research and educational institutions. Juniper Networks' portfolio of networking and security solutions support the complex scale, security and performance requirements of the world's most demanding mission critical networks. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net. About Xspedius Communications Xspedius Communications, Inc. is a privately held Integrated Communications Provider headquartered in O'Fallon, Missouri O'Fallon is a rapidly gowing suburban-city along Interstate 70 between Lake St. Louis and St. Peters in Saint Charles County, Missouri. It is part of the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2006 the population was 72,477[1]. . Xspedius leverages significant metro fiber networks in 38 markets and voice switched networks in 37 markets to provide a comprehensive suite of voice and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. services, including local, long distance, enhanced data, Internet, collocation, managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality and metro special access to business customers and Carrier customers in 45 major cities. For additional information visit www.xspedius.com. About Atreus Systems Atreus Systems(TM) is a leading provider of software solutions for rapid IP service provisioning. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Atreus xAuthority(TM), is a service fulfillment OSS solution that enables global communications providers to extend their existing systems to profitably deliver new services like Voice Over IP, Virtual Private Networks, Managed Security and Managed Applications. Atreus Systems is the vendor of choice for the creation and activation of new services. Leaders like SAIC SAIC - http://saic.com. , Telcordia and Ericsson (Nasdaq:ERICY) sell Atreus' software to their customers worldwide. Atreus Systems is a privately held Delaware company financed by leading telecom venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] including Aliant, Inc, BDC (Backup Domain Controller) In a Windows NT server, a copy of the Primary Domain Controller (PDC). The BDC is periodically synchronized with the PDC. See PDC. BDC - Backup Domain Controller Venture Capital, Blueprint Ventures, Meritage Private Equity, Mobius Venture Capital, SAIC Venture Capital Corporation, Skypoint Capital Corporation, and TELUS TELUS Telemetric Universal Sensor Ventures. For more information, visit the company's web site at www.atreus-systems.com or call (800) 764-5514 (North America). Atreus Systems, the Atreus Systems logo, Atreus xAuthority and all Atreus Systems products are trademarks of Atreus Systems, Inc. or its subsidiaries and are used under license. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Juniper Networks, the Juniper Networks logo, NetScreen, NetScreen Technologies, the NetScreen logo, NetScreen-Global Pro, ScreenOS, and GigaScreen are registered trademarks of Juniper Networks, Inc. in the United States and other countries. M-series, T-series and JUNOS are trademarks of Juniper Networks, Inc. |
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