Caspian and ETRI Partner to Develop New IPV6 Services and IPV4-to-IPV6 Transition Solutions; Companies Enter Phase II of Joint Development Agreement for South Korean Broadband Convergence Network Initiative.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Caspian, the leading provider of multimedia traffic management solutions for IP and multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) networks, today announced the second phase of its joint technology development partnership with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) to deliver new IPv6 services. Caspian and ETRI announced Phase I of their joint technology agreement in February 2005 to develop multimedia quality of service (QoS) solutions for South Korea's Broadband convergence Network (BcN) initiative.

Phase II of the joint development agreement between Caspian and ETRI will focus on new IPv6 services that are part of a comprehensive IPv4-to-IPv6 migration strategy. The single gateway solution will provide tunneling of IPv6 traffic over existing IPv4 networks, resulting in one of the world's first QoS implementations of IPv6. The transition solution will permit IPv4 traffic to be tunneled over IPv6 backbones to assure backward compatibility. The strategy is designed to provide a cost-effective transition solution that protects significant investments in IPv4 network infrastructure.

"IPv6 will significantly improve capabilities in security, location-based services, and mobility to open up new areas of business solutions that were previously impossible," said Caspian President and CEO Brad Wurtz. "By adding multimedia QoS on top of IPv6, we're developing the foundational components of next-generation networks. Our collaboration with ETRI leverages our expertise in QoS and brings this value to IPv6 services."

Through its Phase I collaboration with ETRI, Caspian has successfully deployed its Media Controllers in South Korean's Electronic Government (e-Gov) network with Korea Telecom and SK Telecom. The e-Gov networks are one of many BcN initiatives that represent an ambitious countrywide network infrastructure to deliver dedicated bandwidth in support of integrated multimedia services including VoIP, streaming audio and video, and real-time health and welfare response services to 20 million Korean subscribers. Caspian's Media Controllers are being used today to enforce IP traffic management policies and guarantee QoS for MPLS services across the e-Gov network as part of the BcN.

"South Korea's BcN and e-Government initiatives are arguably the most ambitious multimedia IP-based network projects in the world," adds Wurtz. "To reliably deliver allocated bandwidth in support of multiple traffic types for such a huge subscriber base requires an entirely new class of 'multimedia aware' QoS technology. And this is exactly what Caspian and ETRI are jointly developing."

The joint technology efforts between Caspian and ETRI integrate Caspian's breakthrough flow-state QoS technology with ETRI's expertise in MPLS and IPv6. By combining these technologies, service providers can implement deterministic multimedia networks to reliably deliver voice, video and data services.

"Service providers supplying the network infrastructure for South Korea's BcN and e-Gov projects have made it clear that an entirely new level of multimedia QoS solution is required to meet each initiative's stringent objectives," said Kyung Pyo Jun, vice president of BcN Research Division, ETRI. "Our joint development partnership with Caspian is producing a solution that is uniquely qualified to meet these demanding goals and will set the stage for the industry's inevitable transition to next-generation, IPv6 networks."

About ETRI

The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) is a non-profit research center supported by the Korean government committed to the advancement of information and telecommunications research for the 21st century. ETRI is well known for its development of CDMA technology for mobile communication and TDX switching system, positioning Korea as one of the strongest countries in the IT (information and telecommunication) industry. For more information, visit ETRI's web site at www.etri.re.kr.

About Caspian

Caspian is the leading supplier of multimedia traffic management solutions for service provider, large enterprise, and government networks. The Company's carrier-class Media Controllers leverage advanced Flow-State QoS technology to dynamically manage and control bandwidth in IP and MPLS networks. Caspian enables customers to enforce usage policies, enhance multimedia service quality, and prioritize applications. Caspian is headquartered in San Jose, California with offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, Singapore and China. For more information, visit Caspian on the Web at www.caspian.com.