Catapult Communications Renews Global Purchase Agreement With Motorola.Business Editors MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 2001 Catapult Communications (Nasdaq:CATT) announced the renewal of a global purchase agreement with Motorola (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MOT). Although no minimum purchase requirements are specified, the three-year agreement includes a path to migrate Motorola's installed DCT-S(TM) test systems to the newer and more powerful DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) An algorithm that is widely used for data compression. Similar to Fast Fourier Transform, DCT converts data (pixels, waveforms, etc.) into sets of frequencies. The first frequencies in the set are the most meaningful; the latter, the least. 2000(TM) platform. The agreement also includes terms and conditions for the purchase of additional DCT2000 software licenses In computing, software that is copyrighted and licensed under a software license is done under a variety of licensing schemes. For end-users there are proprietary licenses and there are free software licenses, and there are proprietary Within these schemes are further classifications. , hardware and support. David Mayfield, Catapult's President and COO said, "We have been selling test systems to Motorola since 1992 and have successfully supported Motorola's development and test activities around the world across a variety of telecommunications environments. Catapult test systems are installed at Motorola locations in the U.S., Japan, U.K., Singapore, Ireland, India and China. We are very pleased that Catapult will continue to provide Motorola with telecommunications test systems and we believe that this agreement affirms Catapult's ability to meet the telecom industry's next-generation test requirements." ABOUT CATAPULT Catapult Communications Corporation is a leading provider of advanced software-based test systems to the telecom industry. Equipment manufacturers and service providers use Catapult test systems for the design, integration, simulation and acceptance testing (programming) acceptance testing - Formal testing conducted to determine whether a system satisfies its acceptance criteria and thus whether the customer should accept the system. of a broad range of digital telecommunications equipment and services. Catapult delivers test solutions for over 160 protocols and variants in the following network areas: 3G, VoIP, SS7, ATM, Intelligent Network, V5 and ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. . Catapult Communications Corporation is headquartered at 160 South Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA, 94041. Tel: 650-960-1025. International offices are located in U.K., Germany, France, Canada and Japan. Information about Catapult Communications can be found on the Web at http://www.catapult.com. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. as that phrase is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Such risks include that there can be no assurance that Motorola will migrate its installed DCT-S systems or purchase additional products from the Company. Further risks are detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's most recent Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the first quarter of fiscal year 2001. |
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