Atreus Systems Joins Broadband Content Delivery Forum

Atreus Brings Service Fulfillment Expertise to Industry Group Helping Reshape Broadband Networks to Support the Delivery of Advanced Services

Cupertino, California, October 1, 2002 - Atreus Systems", a service fulfillment leader for IP-based network, application and content services, today announced that it has joined the Broadband Content Delivery Forum (BCD Forum), an independent, nonprofit trade association that addresses both the technology and business issues affecting the end-to-end delivery of broadband content and services to consumers and businesses.

Atreus's flagship product, the xAuthority" Service Fulfillment Solution, is a service creation and activation software platform that helps service providers and enterprises quickly introduce and deliver advanced IP services and applications without new capital build-out. Through simplified configuration and provisioning processes, xAuthority ensures automated, reliable, and cost-effective service creation and provisioning across task-specific OSSs, networks and technologies. Through self-service portals, xAuthority enables end users to self-activate services and enjoy an unprecedented Quality of Experience, via a wide range of access methods and computing devices.

"Atreus is doing important, pioneering work in the emerging service fulfillment OSS market space, and this fits strategically with the BCDF's charter -- to help develop the new broadband business model for supporting next-generation content services," said BCD Forum Officer, Joe Mosher, Aliant Telecom, Director of Strategy and Business Development. "Together, with industry-leading members, we will encourage the development of solutions that help service providers grow their businesses. We are pleased to welcome Atreus and are excited about its contributions."

The xAuthority ensures quick, reliable service fulfillment for advanced IP services, such as collaborative messaging, internetworking, managed firewall, virtual private networks and bandwidth management. The software platform's open, adaptable architecture gives carriers, service providers, enterprise customers, and wireless and cable operators the power to define and deploy market-responsive portfolios of next-generation offerings. By automating service fulfillment processes, xAuthority provides a scalable, cost-effective and repeatable manner in which to deliver services.

"Atreus shares the BCD Forum's vision for broadband networks, in which end users easily access personalized services, applications and content anywhere and at any time. With xAuthority, we are helping service providers and enterprises to affordably build and maintain these types of next-generation networks," said Andrea Baptiste, founder, EVP marketing and business development at Atreus Systems. "We look forward to working with the BCDF's impressive array of industry-leading members."

Atreus Systems joins the following industry leaders in the BCD Forum: Alcatel, Aliant Telecom, Allegro Networks, American Management Systems (AMS), BBC, Boeing Satellite Systems, Harris Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Irdeto Access, Juniper Networks, K2 Network, Lucent Technologies, Network Equipment Technologies, Nortel Networks, NTT, Omneon Video Networks, P-Cube, RTL New Media (formerly Bertelsmann Broadband), SkyStream Networks, Skanova, Sprint, Stellar One and Wydeband, Inc.

About The BCD Forum
The BCD Forum is an independent, non-profit trade association that addresses the business of broadband. Members, which include some of the most important players in the broadband industry, work collaboratively to identify the issues, options and opportunities associated with monetizing broadband networks and to demonstrate that multi-vendor solutions can profitably deliver content-rich consumer and business services across both wireline and wireless networks. The membership consists of network service providers, content delivery providers, content developers and hardware and software developers focused on DSL, cable, satellite, broadcast, telecom and Internet technologies. For more information, please visit www.bcdforum.org.

About Atreus Systems
Atreus Systems" is a service fulfillment leader for IP-based network, application and content services. Atreus' flagship product, the xAuthority" Service Fulfillment Solution, is a service creation and activation software platform that helps carriers, service providers, enterprise customers, and wireless and cable operators to provision and deliver advanced IP services while reducing operational expenses and leveraging existing network CAPEX investments. Atreus Systems, headquartered in Cupertino, California, is a privately held company financed by leading telecom venture capital firms Mobius Venture Capital, Blueprint Ventures, Skypoint Capital Corporation, BDC Venture Capital and Aliant, Inc. For more information, visit the company's web site at atreus-systems.com or call (North America).