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Continuous Computing SPARC International Welcomes New Member

SAN DIEGO, CA - February 26, 2002 - Continuous Computing Corporation (CCPU), the leading provider of high-availability, network-ready compute platforms for telecom equipment manufacturers, today announced the first product in its SPARCblade processor board family. The SPARCblade IIe- 500 processor board is a hot-swappable, PICMG 2.16-compliant single board computer with substantial flexibility designed onto the board, providing power and functionality for a range of embedded applications written for the Solaris operating environment.

Powered by the 500 MHz UltraSPARC IIe processor, the uniquely designed SPARCblade IIe-500 provides high performance with such innovative configurations as:

Support for up to 2 Gigabytes of RAM and a PMC module simultaneously;
Compliant with PICMG 2.16 and CompactPCI, allowing it to run as either a controller or peripheral card. The auto-sensing feature determines the board's intended role;
Bootable from the network, SCSI or IDE disk;
Optional 30 Gigabyte IDE disk drive on transition board for a complete single slot solution:
Accommodates custom rear I/O through a PIM module.

"The single-slot PICMG 2.16 compliant SPARCblade IIe-500, with 30 Gigabyte disk and superior performance enables the deployment of high density telecom computing systems," said Ken Kalb, CEO, Continuous Computing Corporation. "This cost-effective board is extremely well-suited for the embedded applications that carriers and telco equipment manufacturers are running today." The SPARCblade IIe-500 is ideally suited for Voice over IP, wireless, optical and embedded processing markets. Delivering power and performance, the board includes a 100 MHz memory path, dual Ultra2 Wide SCSI at 80 MB/second and features an efficient PCI bridge design providing high bandwidth over 64-bit PCI bus.

The SPARCblade IIe-500's PMC site provides for user I/O expansion or coprocessor modules. Configurations with the IDE disk on the rear transition board allow for stand-alone operation, while rear VHDCI connectors support external SCSI drives for either direct-attached or NFS storage. Serial and PMC I/O are provided through the rear transition board. The SPARCblade IIe-500 is available off-the-shelf from Continuous Computing, or it may be customized by CCPU with additional hardware and software for deeply embedded applications. More information on SPARCblade IIe-500 can be found on the Web at www.ccpu.com/products/boards.html

About Continuous Computing
Continuous Computing provides integrated systems and services that enable telecom equipment manufacturers to rapidly deploy Next Generation Networks (NGN). Over 150 customers worldwide benefit from the company's unique blend of customized professional services, Trillium protocol software, AdvancedTCA and CompactPCI systems, and BladeCenter hardware. Continuous Computing helps customers reduce platform lifecycle costs, optimize data delivery, and accelerate deployments of NGN, 3G/4G Wireless, and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) infrastructure. The company is ISO-9001 and CMMI certified and based in San Diego with development centers in China and India. For more information, visit www.ccpu.com.

Continuous Computing is a member of the Intel Embedded and Communications Alliance (www.intel.com/go/ica), Communications Platforms Trade Association (www.cp-ta.org), Femto Forum (www.femtoforum.org), IMS Forum (www.imsforum.org), Service Availability Forum (www.saforum.org), and the Blade.org ecosystem (www.blade.org).

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