Clovis Solutions Supports HP Advanced Open Telecommunications Platform; Software Provider's Support of HP's Modular, Standards-Based Framework Designed to Give Network Equipment Providers and Operators a Competitive Edge.

PETALUMA, Calif. -- Clovis Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of system infrastructure software to the communications industry, announced today that its System Infrastructure Software Platform (SISP) supports the HP Advanced Open Telecommunications Platform (AOTP). The combination of Clovis' SISP and the comprehensive HP AOTP framework creates a standards-based, pre-integrated platform that helps meet network and service provider needs for more flexibility, speed, reduced cost and minimized risk.

"The communications industry is challenged with deploying new products and services quicker with significantly reduced capital and operating expenditures. This challenge requires a dramatic transformation from internally developed costly proprietary solutions to deploying solutions integrated from standards-based commercial off-the-shelf components," stated VK Budhraja, Clovis Solutions founder and Chief Executive Officer. "With HP and Clovis working together to deliver a highly available standards-based solution, the industry will be equipped to deliver products and services in record time with significantly less risk and cost."

System Infrastructure SW Platform (SISP) developed by Clovis ensures network elements continue to deliver their services regardless of hardware or software faults. In addition, SISP provides a rich set of OAM&P and system management services that reduce operating and management complexity. SISP consists of an extensive set of standards-based management modules running on an information model driven core infrastructure. Modules may be selected to best match the application and platform requirements. SISP can be distributed across blades, shelves, and even racks, creating a seamless high availability platform and system management environment across heterogeneous network element building blocks. SISP is complemented by Clovis Works, an advanced suite of tools that enable solution providers to quickly and cost-effectively simulate, integrate, validate, deploy, and maintain their managed applications and platforms.

HP AOTP is a comprehensive framework built on a foundation of the industry's most complete offering of commercial and carrier-grade platforms (rack-mount and blade solutions). The AOTP framework incorporates a portfolio of operating systems including carrier-grade Linux, Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-enabled telecom network software from HP OpenCall and network management from HP OpenView. Additionally, HP AOTP offers a range of Service Availability Forum-compliant element management software, as well as platform testing and validation, consulting and integration services, global sales and worldwide customer support, and a large ecosystem of tightly linked solution partners.

"The AOTP framework encompasses an array of products, a robust set of ecosystem partners, and services that leverage the inherent advantages of modular, standards-based commercial off-the-shelf technologies. With Clovis Solution SISP support of AOTP, network equipment providers can build modular solutions that give operators the agility and confidence they need to increase revenue through new services and faster time-to-market, while reducing cost and time to money," said Marco Limena, Vice President, Network and Service Provider Solutions, HP.

"Clovis' innovative technology is revolutionizing the development and deployment model for next-generation communication systems," stated Jim Lawrence, Clovis Solutions Chief Technology Officer. "Clovis Solutions delivers end-to-end management that enables solution integrators, network equipment manufactures (NEPs), and telecommunication equipment manufactures (TEMs) to deliver their value faster, with significantly less R&D dollars. Implementation of SISP can enable customers to gain a competitive advantage in this fast moving market environment."

About Clovis Solutions, Inc.

Clovis Solutions was founded in 2002 with a mission to provide communication system vendors with a suite of software infrastructure components, enabling them to greatly reduce time-to-market, development risk and cost. Clovis Solutions is now the leading system infrastructure software platform provider to the communications industry, leveraging more than 400 years of collective communications systems expertise of the Clovis R&D team. Clovis Solutions is headquartered in Petaluma, California's Telecom Valley, with a substantial R&D facility in Bangalore, India.

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