GoAhead Announces 15,000th Global Deployment.

GoAhead Inks New Key Accounts and Helps Customers Achieve Carrier-Grade Status and Speed Time-to-Market

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- GoAhead[R] Software, the expert in building integrated middleware for highly available systems, today announced that implementations of GoAhead SelfReliant[R] now exceed 15,000. With the addition of new customers such as Astronautics, Aselsan, Lockheed Martin and Wichorus, GoAhead strengthens its position as leading high availability middleware provider. GoAhead was recently highlighted as a key factor in enabling two top equipment manufacturers, Operax and Sonim, to deploy solutions with 99.999% availability or greater. This real-world success, combined with continued momentum in the marketplace, can be attributed to GoAhead's more than 10-year proven track record of enabling equipment manufacturers of highly reliable systems to speed time to market, lower costs, and yield the benefits of standards.

In recent news, Operax, a leader in Quality of Service (QoS) Control solutions for multi-service networks where resource and policy-based admission control (RACS) is required, announced results from an independent product test at the lab of an incumbent telecom operator with more than 10 million broadband lines. According to the announcement, this operator performed an independent evaluation of the Operax Bandwidth Manager 5500. Results granted the solution a carrier-grade stamp of approval showing that performance, reliability and management aspects meet the carrier-grade requirements for business critical multi-service QoS Control. The company was also able to achieve extremely aggressive time-to-market objectives by leveraging integration of GoAhead and RadiSys ATCA chassis and boards via the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) Hardware Platform Interface. (The recently announced RadiSys and GoAhead pre-integrated, application ready platform is currently available.) For more information, please visit http://www.operax.com/news/operax_and_partners_.asp.

Additionally, Sonim Technologies, a leader in the emerging market for mobile VoIP push-to-talk (PTT) solutions for enterprises, recently announced commercial availability of the first fully redundant implementation of OMA PoC (PTT over cellular) 1.0, the new IMS-compliant standard for PTT interoperability. According to the announcement, Sonim's Xperience PoC Server (XPS) implementation was completed ahead of other market aspirants and achieves 99.999% availability or greater, accomplished in part by the use of GoAhead high availability middleware. For more information, please visit, http://ipcommunications.tmcnet.com/hot-topics/ims/articles/2754- sonim-announces-partnerships-commercial-availability-oma-poc-10.htm. (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)

"By using GoAhead, customers are able to speed their time-to-market and ensure 99.999% availability or greater of mission-critical systems," says Jim Ewel, GoAhead CEO. "Equipment manufacturers know the value of this, and it's reflected in our increased deployments around the world, which now total 15,000. It's a great feeling to know that GoAhead solutions are having this kind of positive impact for our customers, and we applaud these innovators for paving the way for the rest of the industry," Ewel continues.

AdvancedTCA Summit

GoAhead will be speaking and exhibiting at the AdvancedTCA Summit 2006, in Santa Clara, October 17-19. GoAhead will present three sessions at the Summit including "A Progressive Approach to Highly Available System Design," "The Carrier-Grade Application Ready Platform: A Step-by-Step Approach to Implementing High Availability on an ATCA Platform," and "An Overview of the Hardware Platform Interface," (on behalf of the Service Availability Forum). For more information, please visit GoAhead Software Booth #410.

About GoAhead

GoAhead[R] Software is the expert in designing, building, deploying and maintaining integrated middleware for telecom equipment manufacturers and military/aerospace equipment contractors requiring extremely high availability. By providing a fully integrated, application ready platform, GoAhead products and services help equipment manufacturers achieve faster time to market and lower development costs. Deployed on more than 15,000 nodes worldwide, GoAhead delivers the software, professional services and technical support expertise necessary to ensure success for a broad range of development projects such as wireless base station controllers, Node Bs, softswitches, defense applications and industrial controllers. GoAhead is co-founding member of the Service Availability Forum and an active Board member. GoAhead is a privately held company with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. For more information on GoAhead, visit www.goahead.com or call 425-453-1900. For press information, contact Lacy Williams at 425-468-5417 or [e-mail]

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