Continuous Computing Enhances Product Portfolio to Enable Convergence of VoIP and 3G Wireless Networks.

BOSTON -- Trillium(R) Software Solutions Accelerate Adoption and Deployment of 3G - IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS)

Continuous Computing(R) Corporation, global provider of high availability platform solutions for telecom equipment manufacturers to deploy converged communications, today announced significant enhancements to its Trillium(R) Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) product portfolio.

The company is introducing the Trillium IP Bearer Control Protocol (IP-BCP) offering for seamless integration into networks using Bearer Independent Call Control (BICC). Continuous Computing also announced product updates to Trillium SIP and Trillium GCP (H.248/MEGACO compliant) protocol stacks as well as roadmaps to address high availability and reliability for these products. With these enhancements Continuous Computing enables customers to deliver solutions that address the carrier-grade scalability needs of the VoIP and 3G Wireless network deployment.

3G Wireless technologies are gradually entering the commercial rollout phase and many carriers worldwide are adopting the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture to take advantage of the easier service creation environment to deliver revenue-generating services in a packet-based infrastructure. To support this ongoing market evolution, Continuous Computing's Distributed Fault-Tolerance/High-Availability (DFT/HA) architecture -- successfully field-deployed with the Trillium SS7 and Trillium SIGTRAN signaling products -- is now being extended to the VoIP signaling products. These enhancements will enable global telecom manufacturers to rapidly build network elements such as Call State Control Functions (CSCF), Wireless Media Gateways, SIP phones and servers, Softswitches, Multimedia Resource Control Functions (MRCF) and Bearer Interworking Functions (BIWF) for the decomposed IMS architecture.

"Continuous Computing continues to deliver advanced, standards-based products with new next-generation protocol stacks and timely updates to its comprehensive Trillium protocol portfolio," said Neeraj Patel, Marketing Manager, Continuous Computing. "One of our core strengths is to identify new product requirements and to respond to new demands to enable our customers to deploy the most advanced solutions as VoIP and 3G Wireless networks rapidly evolve. We take pride in consistently providing interoperability-tested products that allow our customers to deploy quickly and derive maximum time-in-market advantages."

Current Trillium SIP protocol stack updates include support for Transport Level Security (TLS), Signaling Compression (SIGCOMM), 3GPP defined drafts, RFCs for specific use of SIP in R5/R6 network architecture and the addition of the redundancy module based on Trillium DFT/HA architecture. The updated SIP stack provides superior performance, PROTOS compliance and has been interoperability tested with multiple vendor solutions at recent SIPit organized test events.

Trillium H.248/MEGACO is widely deployed by global customers for Media Gateways, Media Gateway Controllers and softswitches. The updated stack will support H.248 version 2; UDP, TCP, SCTP and MTP3-B/M3UA transport options; ASN.1 and ABNF parsing schemes; and all basic and extended packages including those specified by 3GPP for specific use in R5/R6 network architecture. It also features the addition of the redundancy module based on Trillium DFT/HA architecture and now delivers even greater performance for Media Gateways and Media Gateway Controllers.

The new Trillium IP-BCP stack is compliant with Q.1970 and Q.1990 and is used for the exchange of media stream characteristics, port numbers and IP addresses of the source and destination of a media stream to establish and allow the modification of IP bearers.

Additional information about this announcement and all other telecom infrastructure solutions from Continuous Computing is available at the company's web site, www.ccpu.com, or at its booth (#427) at the VON Fall tradeshow in the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA from October 18-21, 2004.

About Continuous Computing

Continuous Computing(R) Corporation provides high availability platform solutions that enable telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) to deploy converged communications. The company supplies integrated solutions in the Voice over IP and 3G Wireless markets to more than 250 TEMs globally. Customers rely on Continuous Computing to accelerate time to market, reduce total life cycle costs and increase return on investment. With a comprehensive set of Trillium(R) and upSuite(R) software; AdvancedTCA and CompactPCI systems; Network Service-Ready Platforms(TM); and customization and product life cycle management services, Continuous Computing enables rapid network infrastructure deployment. Founded in 1998, Continuous Computing is based in San Diego, California, with offices worldwide. The company is ISO-9001 certified and a member of the Intel(R) Communications Alliance. Additional information is available at www.ccpu.com.

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