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Continuous Computing Acquires the Trillium Portable Software Assets of Trillium Digital Systems
Acquisition of Trillium Branded Software Enables Continuous Computing To Offer Network Equipment Manufacturers Complete Hardware and Software Solutions for the Central Office and Network Infrastructure
SAN DIEGO - January 13, 2003 - Continuous Computing Corporation, which produces platform solutions for network equipment manufacturers, today announced an agreement to acquire the Trillium branded portable software products and certain associated intellectual property rights from Trillium Digital Systems, Inc., an Intel company. The asset purchase includes the Trillium protocol stacks for the IP telephony, wireless, broadband and signaling markets utilizing industry-leading Trillium Advanced Portable Architecture (TAPA®). The asset purchase will enable Continuous Computing to deliver source code, bundled software and hardware, and complete turnkey central office systems for network equipment providers. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The asset purchase builds upon Continuous Computing's strategy of providing every element of a high-availability, application-ready platform solution for network equipment providers. Continuous Computing's award-winning boards, systems and high-availability middleware products will be enhanced with the complete suite of Trillium protocols such as H.323, MGCP, SIP, GPRS, IMT-2000, SS7 and SIGTRAN.
As part of the agreement, Continuous Computing will hire some of Intel's Los Angeles-based engineers and members of its worldwide sales and support organization. Current Trillium software customers will be supported by Continuous Computing after the deal closes.
Continuous Computing will maintain the Trillium business model of licensing source code and providing maintenance and support to customers. Continuous Computing will augment this model by providing integrated stack solutions on open system platforms to enable the delivery of signaling gateways, wireless nodes and IP telephony appliances. These application-ready products will help reduce costs and allow customers to improve time-to-market at aggressive price points.
"Like Continuous Computing, Trillium is a world renowned leader with network equipment providers," said Ken Kalb, CEO, Continuous Computing. "The Trillium software base supports millions of active users. Our technology complements and enhances this source code model. Combined, Continuous Computing and Trillium will help customers get their applications to market quickly and cost effectively on their choice of open architectures."
Digital Systems, Inc. The Trillium high-performance, high-availability software is currently in use in more than 500 projects by industry-leading suppliers of wireless, broadband, Internet and telephony products. Trillium software is designed using the Trillium Advanced Portability Architecture (TAPA), a set of architectural and coding standards that ensures the software is completely independent of the compiler, processor, operating system and architecture of the target system. The flexibility of TAPA enables manufacturers to rapidly integrate, adapt and modify our software into a wide range of product architectures. Trillium products are developed in ISO 9001 certified and registered facilities.
Continuous Computing acquired the portable software business of Trillium Digital Systems from Intel Corporation in February 2003.
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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