Atrica Congratulates Orange Business Services on Being Named European Service Provider of the Year by the Metro Ethernet Forum.

Leading Carrier Ethernet Service Provider Leverages Atrica's Comprehensive Carrier Ethernet Portfolio to Develop Outstanding Business Practices and Deliver Innovative Services

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Carrier Ethernet industry pioneer Atrica Inc. today congratulated Orange Business Services on being named "Carrier Ethernet European Service Provider of the Year - Best in Business" by the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). Presented on September 28 at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress in Madrid, Spain, this honor recognizes the outstanding business practices and service innovations of leading Carrier Ethernet service providers.

"Being recognized as the 'Best in Business, Service Provider of the Year' by a blue-chip organization dedicated to the adoption of carrier-class Ethernet services is a great honor. This award illustrates Orange Business Services' goal to be a leader in Ethernet solutions," said Danny Cote, Head of Network Solutions. "Available today in 17 countries, our Ethernet portfolio is clearly aimed to support the international needs of our customers."

"As one of its key partners, Atrica is proud to congratulate Orange Business Services on being named 'Service Provider of the Year' by the Metro Ethernet Forum," said Vivek Ragavan, president and CEO of Atrica Inc. "Orange Business Services exemplifies outstanding market leadership by leveraging the most advanced Carrier-class features of Carrier Ethernet technology - such as standard OAM - to deliver ground-breaking and innovative services such as VPLS-TE. We look forward to continuing our role supporting Orange Business Services as it furthers develops and deploys inventive, revolutionary Carrier Ethernet services."

Orange Business Services is the third Atrica customer to receive a "Service Provider of the Year" award from the MEF. Past winners include KVH (named "Asia Pacific Service Provider of the Year - Outstanding Innovation" in October 2005) and Optimum Lightpath (named "US Service Provider of the Year - Outstanding Innovation" in June 2006).

In addition, Bob Mandeville, the President of Iometrix Inc. (California), the company responsible for Carrier Ethernet conformance testing, announced that Orange Business Services' Ethernet portfolio has successfully passed the Service Provider certification testing to comply with MEF 9. This certification is designed to ensure that the delivery of a service provider's Ethernet services conforms to MEF-defined standards.

Orange Business Services has deployed Atrica's comprehensive portfolio of Carrier Ethernet solutions, including the A-4100 Carrier Ethernet Aggregation Switch, the A-2100 Carrier Ethernet Edge Switch, and the A-100 Carrier Ethernet Demarcation device as well as the Atrica Service Platform for Ethernet Networks (ASPEN[TM]), an integrated service provisioning and management system.

By combining the benefits of Ethernet technology with innovations in traffic engineering, service management and scalability, Atrica's Carrier Ethernet solutions allow network operators to leverage a single powerful, efficient universal transport network to deliver highly profitable, differentiated Service Level Agreement (SLA)-based business services, with high scalability; guaranteed, end-to-end SLAs (MEF9 and MEF14 certified); sub-50ms network-wide resiliency; integrated TDM traffic support and point-and-click, centralized service provisioning and management.

About The Metro Ethernet Forum:

The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is a global industry alliance comprising of more than 90 organizations including telecommunications service providers, network equipment/software manufacturers, semiconductors vendors and testing organizations. The MEF's mission is to accelerate the worldwide adoption of Carrier-class Ethernet networks and services. The MEF develops Carrier Ethernet technical specifications and implementation agreements to promote interoperability and deployment of Carrier Ethernet worldwide. For more information about the Forum, including a complete listing of all current MEF members, please visit the MEF web site at www.MetroEthernetForum.org.

About Orange Business Services

Orange Business Services represents the business communications solutions and services provided by the France Telecom Group as of June 1st, 2006. They were previously sold under the France Telecom, Orange, Equant, Etrali, Almerys, EGT, Expertel Consulting, France Telecom Intelmatique, SETIB and Solicia brands. Its offerings include converged voice, data and mobile services as well as IT expertise and managed services, all designed to transform business processes and improve productivity. Orange Business Services is present in 166 countries and territories and serves customers in 220 countries.

For instance, Orange's MPLS IP VPN service, conceived in 1999, is available in 146 countries with five classes of differentiated and prioritized services for voice and video and three data classes for business applications. This core solution can enable a simplified and efficient communication infrastructure, which operates 24x7 anywhere you do business using mobile, wireless, DSL, Ethernet or optical transport. For more information, please visit www.orange-business.com.

About Atrica

A technology visionary and industry pioneer, Atrica provides a full range of Carrier Ethernet transport solutions to service providers delivering Metro Ethernet services. Atrica's Carrier Ethernet product suite combines the benefits of Ethernet technology - including its low-cost, proven scalability, ease of management, and ubiquity in the enterprise market - with innovations in traffic engineering, service management and scalability to meet the stringent demands of next-generation transport networks. With Atrica's Carrier Ethernet solutions, service providers can deliver the ultimate broadband triple play services experience to their business and residential customers over a single universal transport network, with guaranteed SLAs, sub-50ms network-wide resiliency, TDM traffic support, and point-and-click, centralized OAM&P. Privately held, Atrica has received funding from world-class venture capital firms, industry leaders, and eight global service providers. Based in Santa Clara, Calif., Atrica has R&D facilities in Israel and the Untied States and business development and sales offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit Atrica on the Web at www.atrica.com.

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