Telcordia's Elementive Portfolio for Ip, Optical and Wireless Networks Marks Pivotal Shift for Industry.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 2003

Innovative Portfolio Offers Carriers Increased Revenue Opportunities,

Improved Quality of Service

(Telcordia Elementive Launch Event) -- September 23, 2003 -- Telcordia(R) Technologies, the world's leading provider of Operations Support Systems (OSS), today announced the Telcordia Elementive(TM) Portfolio, designed to help wireline and wireless carriers around the globe rapidly create, activate, deliver and manage voice and high-bandwidth data services while lowering operational costs.

The open, configurable portfolio, based on industry standards including J2EE and TMF 513, improves management of IP, optical, DSL and wireless networks and services through a software productization approach. This marks the first phase of the Elementive Portfolio, which provides carriers with the choice of highly reliable, highly scaleable, off-the-shelf products that allow for the flexibility to invest in individual or multiple components without the cost or time associated with product customization and integration. The result is increased revenue, more choice and the ability to easily integrate technologies from Telcordia, its partners and other third-party vendors.

"Telcordia's Elementive approach is unique in the industry in that it provides the highest levels of flow-through at the lowest cost thereby enabling carriers to realize unprecedented value from their software investment," said Ragui Kamel, group president, New Generation Systems, Telcordia. "This new business model and modularized portfolio will help carriers increase new enterprise service revenues while lowering their total cost of ownership.

"Over the last year, we have strategically invested in the development of specific product offers and partnerships targeted for our key growth markets. The introduction of the Elementive Portfolio represents the culmination of our efforts to accelerate the industry's need to introduce new services fast and economically," Kamel added.

As demand grows for new service offerings, guaranteed performance and greater market reach, carriers must reinvent and streamline their business processes in order to remain viable. Simultaneously, they must achieve more efficient operations, cost-effective use of capital resources, prompt integration of new technologies, fast response to network troubles, and more accurate management of inventory.

"With VoIP, network-based VPNs and new wireless services coming into full view for many end-user customers, network operators must maintain efficient and cost-effective operations solutions that can integrate with existing systems and processes," said Karl Whitelock, program director, OSS Competitive Strategies at Stratecast Partners. "Customer service management, rather than just network management, is an essential differentiator for bringing together existing customer needs and the service offerings available from improved network technologies. Solutions such as those from Telcordia can assist service providers with the implementation of affordable and scaleable OSS/BSS capabilities that can address customer-level requirements and enable profitable new revenue sources."

The Elementive Portfolio is comprised of multiple solution sets, including the Managed IP, Optical Management and Mobility portfolios. Providing customers with open, scalable and efficient solutions to lower costs and increase service creation and performance, Telcordia's three-prong Elementive initiative includes:

The Telcordia Managed IP Portfolio, which allows carriers to optimize resources and lower costs, speed delivery of high-margin IP services, improve network performance and quality of service, benefit from rapid service creation and better manage service level agreements (SLAs) and IP network services.

The Telcordia Optical Management Portfolio, which allows carriers to centralize management of complex optical networks, accelerate integration of current and legacy systems, and gain new levels of control over their networks.

The Telcordia Mobility Portfolio, which provides wireless carriers an opportunity to transform their network's capabilities through an open framework, create an automated, low-cost business process environment and construct a platform for network and organizational growth.

The first set of products and services in the Elementive Portfolios include:

-- Telcordia(R) Service Composer - an integrated environment for

the rapid development and introduction of new services.

Service Composer is an object-oriented environment that allows

carriers to model, develop, bundle and customize potential new

service offerings while simplifying and streamlining the

service definition process.

-- Telcordia(R) Service Director - enables carriers to have open,

multi-layer, user-configurable software that provides Quality

of Service (QoS) monitoring and reporting, comprehensive

Service Level agreement (SLA) management, and problem

resolution for CDMA, GSM, GPRS and third generation mobile

networks.

-- Telcordia(R) Service Express - allows carriers to deliver new

service offerings and achieve operational readiness quickly,

thanks to increased automation. With Service Express, carriers

can automate delivery of new, high-bandwidth services for

increased revenue opportunities.

-- Telcordia(R) Inventory - an Operational Support System (OSS)

that manages multi-vendor network equipment, facilities,

circuits, and connections across multiple network layers to

increase productivity and efficiency.

-- Telcordia(R) Activator - provides centralized configuration

for multi-vendor wireless and wireline networks creating

connections and configurations on Layer 1, Layer 2, and Layer

3 networks, performing management functions across a range of

technologies, including MPLS, ATM, GSM, GPRS, UMTS, CDMA, and

WCDMA.

-- Telcordia(R) Surveillance Manager - proactively manages

network faults by employing a unique alarm analysis engine to

process alarms, alerts and messages from all areas of

carriers' IP, ATM, optical, and wireless networks.

-- Telcordia(R) Service Level Manager - automatically manages

quality of service (QoS) and monitors network performance

against complex IP-centric SLAs by identifying potential

problems or service level degradations before they

significantly impact the customer.

-- Telcordia(R) Network Engineer - simplifies planning for inside

and outside plant networks of all sizes and technologies.

-- Telcordia(R) Signaling Network Activation Manager - provides

centralized provisioning of multi-vendor signal transfer point

(STP) and mobile switching center (MSC) network elements

including the administration of routing table configurations.

Additional services and components of the new portfolio that help customers further customize their business operation systems for IP, DSL, Optical and Wireless, include:

-- Telcordia Consulting Services - helps carriers define and

create the best IP network and services infrastructure through

a Network, Operations, and Business Readiness Assessment.

-- Telcordia(R) Adapter Toolkit - used to create, modify, and

maintain adapter plug-ins to Element Management Systems (EMS)

and/or Network Engineer (NE) in a stand-alone development

environment.

The Elementive Portfolio is available immediately. For more information please visit www.telcordia.com/elementive.

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About Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

Telcordia Technologies, Inc. is a leading global provider of telecommunications software and services for IP, wireline, wireless, and cable networks. By delivering flexible, standards-based solutions that optimize complex network and business support systems, Telcordia enables customers to aggressively reduce costs and grow revenues. Telcordia, a subsidiary of SAIC, is headquartered in Piscataway, NJ with offices throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Central and Latin America. (www.telcordia.com)

Telcordia Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of SAIC. Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements or industry results to be very different from the results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Some of these factors include, but are not limited to, the risk factors set forth in SAIC's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended January 31, 2003, and such other filings that the Company makes with the SEC from time to time. Due to such uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.