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Hills, Calif., August 23, 2000 – Vertel® (NASDAQ: VRTL), a leading developer of mediation software for telecommunications networks, and Tellium, Inc., the world's first provider of in-service intelligent optical switches, will share insights into the implementation of object oriented methodologies and tools, such as Vertel's e*ORB software, in the development of embedded systems. The presentation is part of the 2000 Rational Software User Conference scheduled for next week.
The session, entitled "Lessons Learned Using Object Oriented Technologies in Embedded Systems Development," will take place at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 29 during the Rational conference. Speakers include Vertel e*ORB senior software engineer Joey Garon and Tellium's Frank Gielen. Addressing developers, team leaders and managers building embedded and/or real-time systems, the speakers will give examples drawn from their own experiences during the design and development stages of Tellium's Aurora Optical Switching System while employing e*ORB, Vertel's advanced CORBA implementation for the telecommunications domain.
Separately, Vertel will demonstrate e*ORB in the exhibit area at the conference (Booth No. 115), on August 28 and 29. The Rational Software User Conference, sponsored by Rational Software (NASDAQ:RATL), of Lexington, Mass., takes place August 27-31, 2000 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
About Tellium
Tellium, pioneer of the world's first in-service, intelligent optical switches, delivers the highest capacity, highest density, most cost-effective solutions to service providers offering advanced optical services. Using Tellium's Aurora/Full-Spectrum(TM) product line, service providers can tame the explosive growth in network traffic to quickly and reliably deliver services in anticipation of customers' dynamic bandwidth needs. Founded in 1997 by optical experts from Bellcore, Tellium's technology team holds more than 50 patents in the optics field. Tellium is led by a team of industry veterans from the leading telecommunications and data communications companies worldwide, including AT&T, Ascend Communications, Bay Networks, Nortel Networks, Lucent Technologies, MCI, Cisco, Yurie and Telcordia. Tellium, Inc. is based in Oceanport, N.J.
About Vertel
Vertel, based in Woodland Hills, Calif., is a leading provider of mediation software for telecommunications networks, enabling a variety of devices such as mobile devices to become an integral, intelligent part of a company's network topology. The company recently announced version 2.0 of its pioneering mediation software, e*ORB(TM), the original version of which has been adopted by top telecommunications, e-business, and manufacturing companies. Vertel offers a variety of technologies and applications, supporting end-to-end network and service management with the highest quality of service for network operations. Vertel solutions are deployed worldwide by service providers, network operators, software vendors and systems integrators. Vertel's Professional Services Unit also develops turnkey management applications that fit individual customer requirements.
For more information on Vertel or its products, contact Vertel at 21300 Victory Boulevard, Suite 700, Woodland Hills, Calif. 91367; telephone: (818) 227-1400; fax: (818) 598-0047 or visit
http://www.vertel.com.
Safe Harbor Statement: Except for the historical information presented, the matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements should be evaluated together with the many risks and uncertainties that affect our business and may cause results to differ materially from those set forth in the statements. These include: timely and successful development of products and technologies; successful introduction and customer acceptance of object oriented technologies in embedded systems; and other risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in Vertel's periodic and other reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by Vertel, including, but not limited to, the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1999, and the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarters ending March 31 and June 30, 2000. Vertel undertakes no obligation to obligation to update forward-looking statements made in this release to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this statement.
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