Intelliden Announces Availability of Intelliden Resource Manager.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2004

Intelliden Corporation:

-- The Industry's First Synchronization Application For Network

Hardware Resources

-- Accelerates Instant Provisioning and Inventory Reconciliation

Intelliden Corporation, the intelligent networking company, today announced the release of the Intelliden Resource Manager, the industry's first and only application capable of fulfilling the demand to integrate the knowledge of current physical inventory state with the revenue and service configuration potential that IP networks offer today. The Intelliden Resource Manager intelligently examines the inherent capabilities of resources on an IP network for actual physical and logical device configuration, empowering instant provisioning of new business services and immediate implementation of network changes.

"As one of the first users of the Intelliden Resource Manager, we could see the immediate benefit for customers of our integrated ICT platform, BT Transform," said Gordon Suttie, Vision and Strategy Manager, BT Global Solutions. "As our ICT strategy moves towards the immediate provisioning and delivery of high-value services, the need for up-to-date information of physical available resources and inventory knowledge is critical to the delivery of these real-time business services. The Intelliden Resource Manager is a groundbreaking step forward for the industry and addresses one of the major weaknesses in the management of complex IP networks."

"The Intelliden Resource Manager provides the foundation for enterprises, governments and service providers to build a more cost effective and highly efficient service-oriented infrastructure," said Rich Ptak, partner at Ptak, Noel & Associates. "This application links physical and logical processes together to enable full network visibility and control from network planning and inventory through the implementation of new services in the network. By providing real-time updates detailing what's physically available, while managing logical configuration changes to utilize the full capability of your devices, the Intelliden Resource Manager helps leverage the network in more creative, efficient and service-aware ways."

The Intelliden Resource Manager eliminates manual and scripted inefficiencies by dynamically automating service and network linkage. Unlike simple, low-level network management or discovery tools which view the network as a series of CLI statements or simple SNMP parameters, the Intelliden Resource Manager can immediately respond to a hardware change, such as adding a card or changing a chassis, by auditing the changed device, updating the physical resource model and then versioning the new configuration for a complete and immediate awareness of network state.

The Intelliden Resource Manager is in deployment with beta customers, such as BT Transform and others, who are using it as an essential part of their strategic next-generation OSS for delivery of services. Founded on the standards-based Directory Enabled Networks New Generation (DEN-ng) object model, the Intelliden Resource Manager is the latest milestone in Intelliden's commitment to delivering on the DEN-ng vision for device and service management.

"Detailed network device information is a critical component in managing today's IP networks," said Dale Hecht, Intelliden president and CEO. "IP networks have the highest levels of complexity and the greatest levels of cost, yet changes to each network device are still manual. The Intelliden Resource Manager solves this problem. It automatically keeps in synch with devices on the network as they change. For instance, when an engineer places a card in any network device, Intelliden automatically knows and reports these changes down to the level of serial number on cards, amount of memory, what type of cards are in each slot, whether they're empty, as well as the firmware of the cards."

About Intelliden Corporation

With the Intelliden R-Series(TM) software suite, networks become more intelligent and efficient by dynamically responding to business priorities, which allows businesses and organizations to reduce costs, optimize network resources, increase network security and accelerate service activation. The Intelliden R-Series solution consists of four intelligent networking product pillars: Auditing and Reporting; Configuration and Control; Provisioning and Activation; and Security Management. Headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colo., Intelliden has offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and London. For more information, visit www.intelliden.com.

Intelliden and Intelliden R-Series are trademarks of Intelliden Corporation. All other trademarks in this document are properties of their respective owners.