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Woodland
Hills, Calif., November December 09, 1999 – Vertel® (NASDAQ:
VRTL), a leading global provider of carrier-grade network
management solutions announced that Tellium, a leading
manufacturer of next generation optical networking systems, has
selected Vertel's new e*ORB object management platform to be a key
building block for their latest line of high capacity optical
switches.
In an agreement finalized this
week, Tellium will embed e*ORB into their Aurora 512 line of
optical switches to manage communications among the device's
internal systems and processors. Tellium's corporate investors
include Cisco Systems, SAIC, Telcordia and Ortel -- Leaders in the
telecom industry.
"The distributed command
and control structure included in our product demands a highly
modular, scalable and robust real-time communication
mechanism," says Tellium's lead software architect, Tom
Damiano. "The power and elegance of a state of the art CORBA
architecture led us to select e*ORB as a cornerstone of our
command architecture. The e*ORB request broker allows us to reduce
our development time and guarantee high quality across all our
development and target environments."
A leader in next generation
network technology, Tellium's most recent offering, the Aurora 512
Super Switch, is the highest capacity optical cross-connect device
of its kind, handling optical signal speeds up to OC-48 with a
total switching capacity of up to 1.28 terabits per second.
Tellium's products are engineered to manage the high bandwidth
required to carry increasingly high-volumes of data traffic over
today's optical networks.
Implementing Vertel's e*ORB as
the primary management platform for the Aurora 512 switch will
enable Tellium to maintain its competitive edge and further
deliver on its customer promise of faster, lower cost bandwidth by
reducing development time and overhead while strengthening the
reliability, flexibility and scalability of the product. Tellium's
implementation demonstrates how e*ORB can be embedded into the
various processors within a network device to streamline internal
communications and enhance standard management processes, making
e*ORB a readily available, "off-the-shelf" alternative
to developing proprietary solutions.
"Customers like Tellium who
are developing leading edge technologies for convergent networks
have told us they need low-cost, ready-to-use solutions for
managing network devices in order to speed time to market and
contain costs," said Bruce Brown, president and CEO of Vertel
Corporation. "e*ORB meets these requirements and we are
pleased with the response we have received."
Initial deployment of e*ORB in
Tellium's Aurora 512 Super Switch will include the LynxOS
real-time operating system from Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc.
"In working on this advanced, carrier-grade customer
application, we found that the Lynx real-time operating system
accentuated e*ORB's unique performance enhancements, such as `on
demand' loading of modules, `pluggable protocols,' and flexible
C++ support," said Ann Marie O'Connor, Product Manager for
Vertel's CORBA products. "The LynxOS `Reliable Processing
Environment,' POSIX process model and its `built-in' dynamic
loading facilities enabled us to satisfy the challenging demands
of this telecommunications application."
e*ORB is the first commercially
available Object Request Broker (ORB) optimized specifically for
the telecommunications industry. Unique among existing ORB
platforms, e*ORB is compliant with the MinimumCORBA specification,
and can be extended to incorporate CORBA features as required by
the telecom market. This scalability allows e*ORB to be embedded
into a wide variety of network devices ranging from high-capacity
optical switches and terabit routers to high-end handheld devices
and set-top boxes. Editors note: For a complete listing of e*ORB
features and capabilities, please visit Vertel's Web site at www.vertel.com.
About Vertel Corporation
Vertel is a leading global provider of carrier-grade, broadband
Internet software infrastructure and management solutions. Vertel
offers a wide range of technologies and applications, supporting
end-to-end network and service management with the highest quality
of service for network operations. Vertel's solutions are deployed
worldwide by service providers, network operators, software
vendors, and systems integrators. Vertel also delivers turnkey
management applications that fit individual customer requirements
through its Professional Services Unit. The company is based in
Woodland Hills, California and has sales offices throughout the
world. Contact Vertel on the World Wide Web at http://www.vertel.com.
About Tellium
Tellium designs, and manufactures networking products that create
intelligent optical networks. These products are utilized by large
communications companies because today's public networks are
struggling to support the explosion of bandwidth requirements for
data services. Tellium products create a scalable optical network
enabling reliable, fast, low cost delivery of data services.
Tellium's Aurora 32 Optical Switch was the first-to-market in the
telecommunications industry. Aurora 32 with the larger Aurora 512,
StarNet Restoration Software and the Gemini Element Management
System are the cornerstone network elements of scalable, flexible
optical networks. More information about Tellium can be found at http://www.tellium.com.
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the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Except for
the historical information presented, the matters discussed in
this news release are forward looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties, including timely and successful
development of products and technologies; successful introduction
and customer acceptance of new and enhanced products and
technologies in existing and new markets; the possible development
and introduction of competitive products and new and alternative
technologies; pricing, currency and exchange risks; governmental
and regulatory developments affecting Vertel and its customers;
the ability to identify, conclude, and integrate acquisitions on a
timely basis; the ability to retain and attract key personnel; and
other risks detailed from time to time in public disclosure
filings 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, 1998 and the Quarterly Report
on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 1999.
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