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 is the global source of integrated platform solutions that enable network equipment providers to overcome the mobile broadband capacity challenge quickly and cost effectively. Leveraging more than 20 years of telecom innovation, the company empowers customers to increase Return on Investment (ROI) by focusing internal resources on differentiation for 3G, Long Term Evolution (LTE), Femtocell and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) applications. Expertise and responsiveness set the company apart: only Continuous Computing combines best-in-class AdvancedTCA (ATCA) platforms with world-famous Trillium protocol software to create highly-optimized, field-proven wireless and packet processing products. www.ccpu.com

Continuous Computing is an active member of 3GPP, CP-TA, eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance, ETSI, Femto Forum, Intel Embedded Alliance, PICMG and the SCOPE Alliance.

Continuous Computing, the Continuous Computing logo and Trillium 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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