Continuous Computing Ships Award Winning upSuite High Availability Middleware for Voice over Packet Applications.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2000

Provides IP Disk Mirroring at Wireline Speeds

with 500 Millisecond Failover

Continuous Computing (CCPU), a leading provider of voice-over-packet platform solutions for telecom equipment manufacturers, today announced the release of its upSuite(TM) High Availability middleware as a stand-alone product.

The software, specifically designed for Voice over IP (VoIP) application developers, provides a quick, easy and seamless method for turning VoIP applications into Central Office products with 99.999 percent reliability. The core technology of upSuite implements IP disk mirroring at wireline speeds. Information created on an active processor is written to a local disk while simultaneously written across a TCP/IP network to a standby processor and its local disk. IP disk writes can be implemented at speeds from 10Mbytes per second to as fast as 200Mbytes per second depending upon topology, while failover can be tuned to 500 milliseconds or less.

"upSuite enables VoIP applications such as click-to-dial, Web conferencing or unified messaging to become a telco-grade revenue generator in weeks," said Ken Kalb, chief executive officer of Continuous Computing. "Our customers are building media gateways, media gateway controllers, billing, SS7 signaling, enhanced IP media services and OAM&P network elements with better time to market than they have ever had before. As a general rule, they deploy before their invoices are due."

upSuite consists of five easy-to-use modules that handle all of the low-level system calls for low-level IP I/O devices. The modules include:

1. upDisk(TM) -- a kernel-level virtual file system that provides

IP disk mirroring

2. upBeat(TM) -- tunable heartbeats with simple APIs to the

application

3. upRules(TM) -- a state table for maintaining raised and error

conditions for system maintenance and application-specific

events

4. upAgent(TM) -- an SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)

aggregator with a GUI 

5. upState(TM) -- a library and API that allows applications to

checkpoint memory based data to a backup processor.

Currently running on SPARC(TM) and Intel(R) versions of Solaris(TM), upSuite is immediately available with prices starting at $5,000 per node, with quantity discounts available.

About Continuous Computing Corp.

Continuous Computing is the leading provider of voice-over-packet platform solutions for telecom equipment manufacturers and service providers. CCPU's high availability, Hi-5 (TM) architecture enables the rapid development and deployment of VoIP applications. CCPU designs and builds complete media gateways, media gateway controllers, signaling gateways, billing and OAM&P servers, as well as enhanced IP media servers. CCPU customers include Alcatel, Cisco and Ericsson and a multitude of other leading next-generation network providers. Corporate offices are located at 9380 Carroll Park Drive, San Diego, CA 92121. TEL: [phone], FAX: [phone]. CCPU can be found on the World Wide Web at www.ccpu.com.

Continuous Computing, CCPU, upSuite, upDisk, upBeat, upAgent and upState are trademarks or registered trademarks of Continuous Computing Corp.

All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. The products described in this document are protected by U.S. patents and may be protected by foreign patents or pending applications.