DIATEM Releases Ethernet ServiceController 2.0 to Address Hot Market Demand for Ethernet Services.

OTTAWA -- DIATEM Networks Inc., the leader in Metro Ethernet services control, today announced the release of Ethernet ServiceController 2.0(ESC 2.0), a sophisticated software platform, designed to enable broadband network operators to generate new revenues from the red-hot growth in the Ethernet services market. The attraction of Ethernet services is attributed to their ease of use, bandwidth scalability, service arrangement flexibility, and cost effectiveness.

According to the Yankee Group's study in May 2004, Ethernet service revenue in the United States is to grow at a healthy 57 percent CAGR from about $400 million in 2003, to about $4 billion in 2008. Frost & Sullivan predicts an even faster growth pace for the Asia Pacific region, where Ethernet services revenue totaled $2.69 billion in 2002, and is projected to reach $15.24 billion by 2008. An Ovum 2004 report notes the trend from basic Ethernet pipe services to higher demand for multipoint, QoS-based VLAN services emerging in 2004."Service providers worldwide are embracing Ethernet-based services," notes Brian Van Steen, RHK, Inc., "The pace of rollout for these services has been strong over the past couple of years, and continues unabated."

DIATEM's ESC 2.0 software platform makes it fast, simple and virtually error-free for service providers and large enterprises to design, activate and manage sophisticated Ethernet services across heterogeneous, multi-vendor networks. ESC 2.0 solves the difficult issue of delivering Ethernet Service Level Agreements (SLA's), overcoming the operational shortfalls within the technology itself. By supporting Ethernet SLA's, DIATEM's ESC 2.0 enables effective delivery of emerging QoS sensitive applications such as Voice over IP, Video On Demand, and Triple Play.

"For service providers, new service activation volumes for Ethernet are rapidly increasing and the demand for QoS and SLA based Ethernet services is only beginning," says Deryl Rasquinha, DIATEM's VP Marketing and Product Management."Ethernet inherently demands more sophistication for service deployment and management, as compared to technologies such as ATM and Frame Relay.Our unique ESC 2.0 solution meets the technical challenges of Ethernet, and is ideally timed to enable broadband network operators to quickly drive new revenues from differentiated Ethernet services, in a very cost effective manner" adds Rasquinha.

Based on a state-of-the-art J2EE platform, and leveraging emerging industry standards, DIATEM offers a powerful, easy to use service design interface in front of a highly sophisticated engine, that delivers services rapidly and accurately across packet networks. ESC 2.0 automates many operational functions, thereby significantly reducing operating cost and improving customer servicing. As a significant differentiator, ESC 2.0 introduces real time service control capabilities, linking the traditionally isolated functions of service provisioning and service performance management.

DIATEM's ESC 2.0 can be deployed as a stand alone platform or as a sophisticated Ethernet OSS subsystem, providing customers a variety of deployment choices. DIATEM's ESC 2.0 can also be deployed as an OEM component to third party service provisioning and network management solutions, allowing a win-win opportunity for DIATEM's channel partners.

"With the growth of the Ethernet market, service providers are looking for new solutions to support the roll-out of these services," adds Van Steen of RHK, Inc. "The DIATEM solution is a timely response to these needs."

Key ESC 2.0 Features

Key Features of DIATEM's ESC 2.0 include:

- A highly powerful graphical user interface to manage services and
  networks
- A flexible, wizard driven interface to define and manage a service
  catalog
- A sophisticated service design, configuration and activation
  capability that executes advanced algorithms for service admission
  control and path optimization, to ensure SLA's are met in an
  optimized fashion
- Rich resource provisioning features including resource discovery,
  inventory, configuration, design, and activation
- Ongoing awareness of the network and the operational state of
  services including network resource performance analysis and
  reporting, and service quality monitoring, analysis and reporting
- Emerging dynamic feedback loop and adjustment capability
- A highly flexible design model enabling support for heterogeneous
  networks, and support for different network vendor technologies

About DIATEM

DIATEM Networks Inc. is the leading developer of real time service control systems for Metro Ethernet networks. DIATEM's software platform enables service providers and enterprises to design, activate and manage sophisticated Ethernet services across heterogeneous, multivendor networks.DIATEM empowers its customers to offer on-demand QoS based Ethernet services with guaranteed Service Level Agreements, overcoming operational limitations inherent to the technology itself.DIATEM significantly lowers operating costs of providing Ethernet services through extensive use of process automation, integrated network engineering and real time feedback and control, simplifying service provisioning and management, and maximizing network resource utilization.