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Continuous Computing Announces Broad ATCA Product Portfolio Enabling Advanced 3G Wireless and VoIP Solutions

Platform-Level Features Facilitate Consistent System Architecture and Ease of Integration

BEIJING, CHINA AND SAN DIEGO, CA - October 26, 2004 - Continuous Computing Corporation, global provider of high availability platform solutions that enable telecom equipment manufacturers to deploy converged communications, today announced a comprehensive suite of Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA) products to address the performance and scalability needs of the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and 3G Wireless markets.

Each member of the company's ATCA product family is designed to bring together a common set of platform-level features that facilitate application integration and accelerate network deployment. The common feature set includes:

PICMG 3.0 and 3.1 compliant Gigabit Ethernet base and fabric switching
Fibre Channel fabric switching for high-speed and high-capacity storage access
10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks for scalability
TDM transport over IP for voice and media switching
Full range of local and shared storage options
PMC/PTMC & AMC slots for flexible expansion options like DSP, Storage, Network Processing and Line Termination (T1/E1 and OC-3/STM-1)
Red Hat and MontaVista Carrier Grade Linux support
Comprehensive standards-compliant shelf management
Value-add innovative System Management Services to ease Operations, Administration and Maintenance of the platform.

"We're proud to announce the industry's most comprehensive ATCA product family that leverages the latest Service Availability Forum interfaces and integrates essential functions such as switching, processing, I/O, DSP, storage, OA&M, shelf management and system management into an elegant platform," said Mike Coward, Chief Technology Officer, Continuous Computing. "The product family offers a wide range of choices to address the needs of varying performance requirements or product development budgets."

Continuous Computing's ATCA product line offers the fastest path from product concept to application development and deployment revenue. The ATCA products incorporate the latest trends in high-speed interconnect technologies and next-generation processors along with improved reliability, manageability, and serviceability. Continuous Computing expects the following suite of products to start being available in the first quarter of 2005:

COREblade PM-10A: Switching and OA&M with Gigabit Ethernet base switching, Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel fabric switching, and Intel Pentium M host processing
LINUXblade XE-20A: High Performance SBC featuring Intel dual LV Xeon processing
LINUXblade PPC-20A: High Performance SBC with IBM dual PowerPC 970FX processing
IOblade TI-320A: High Performance media blade leveraging Texas Instruments C6415 digital signal processing and Intel Network Processing
IOblade PM-10A: Expansion & Processing with Gigabit Ethernet switching and Intel Pentium M processing
FlexStore: AMC and shared Fibre Channel storage options
Deployment: NEBS compliant 5U or 12U chassis options

Coupled with the company's Trillium protocol software and upSuite High Availability middleware, Continuous Computing's ATCA products represent a significant step forward in custom configured platform solutions for the telecommunications industry. The Continuous Computing family of ATCA products is designed to enable delivery of a wide range of infrastructure applications, including softswitches, Mobile Switching Centers, Media Gateways, Signaling Gateways, Media Servers, Home Location Registers (HLRs), Signaling Control Points (SCPs), Serving GPRS Service Nodes (SGSNs), Gateway GPRS Service Nodes (GGSNs) and many other applications.

Additional information about this announcement and all other telecom infrastructure solutions from Continuous Computing is available at the company's web site, www.ccpu.com, or at its booth (#7715) at the PT/EXPO tradeshow in the China International Exhibition Center in Beijing, China, from October 26-30, 2004.

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).

Continuous Computing, the Continuous Computing logo, Create | Deploy | Converge, FlexTCA, Flex21, FlexChassis, FlexCompute, FlexCore, FlexDSP, FlexPacket, FlexStore, FlexSwitch, FlexTCA, Network Service-Ready Platform, Quick!Start, TAPA, Trillium, Trillium+plus, and the Trillium logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Continuous Computing Corporation. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

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