Atreus Systems and Natural Convergence Empower Carriers to Offer Self-Serve Business Communication Bundle

Strategic partnership enables Enterprise users to activate
and manage next-generation voice services

Cupertino, CA – March 17, 2003 – Atreus Systems, a service fulfillment leader for IP services and applications, and Natural Convergence, a pioneer of broadband communications software for telecom carriers, today announced the signing of a joint sales and marketing agreement. This partnership enables the companies to offer a seamless self-serve solution for telecom carriers to create and deliver comprehensive business communication bundles. The carriers’ enterprise customers are now able to activate and manage all their services – including voice services, voicemail, email, remote access, etc. – through one single interface.

"Through our teaming with visionary partners like Atreus Systems, we are capitalizing on the growing trend towards service convergence, a concept that allows the carrier to provide and manage all of the communication lifelines – voice, data, and web – for its customers," said Natural Convergence CEO David Cork. "With this unique self-serve solution we are drastically reducing the complexity and the operating expense of managing communication services – a clear advantage for the carrier and the business owner alike."

The enhanced product offering combines the Natural Convergence virtual key system (VKS) solution, a robust offering of small business voice services, with the Atreus xAuthority™ Solution, a service fulfillment platform that enables carriers to simplify the creation and activation of IP-based network, application and content services. The combined solution enables carriers to cost-effectively evolve into one-stop communications shops, offering voice services, customized data, video services, hosted business applications, localized content, billing services and other managed IP offerings.

Atreus xAuthority™ is a carrier-grade, service creation and activation software platform that enables carriers and service providers to automate the provisioning and delivery of advanced IP services and applications. Designed to scale to millions of subscribers, Atreus xAuthority offers a compelling solution capable of unifying front-end, customer-facing service portals with the back-end OSSs that execute service authentication, activation and billing across the network. At the front end, a carrier’s customer dynamically selects from a menu of services. At the back end, service definition, activation, billing and management are automated across multiple systems, equipment and computing technologies. With the integration of Natural Convergence’s virtual key system into the solution, carriers can now also offer mission critical, self-serve voice services with all the essential features of a modern phone system, delivered over a carrier’s broadband data network.

"Natural Convergence offers carriers an innovative approach for delivering voice services to their small, medium business customers," said Ken Workun, Director, Business Development at Atreus Systems. "Our customers are demanding total solutions that will allow them to deliver high-margin, value-added services quickly, reliably and profitably. This partnership allows us to address the stated need of our customers to deliver cost-effective, comprehensive communications bundles.

About Natural Convergence
Natural Convergence is an Ottawa based software company that develops and markets Broadband communications software to Telecom carriers, enabling them to better serve their business customers. The company was founded in April 2001 and is financed by leading venture capital firms including Venture Investment Management Company, BDC, Primaxis, Jefferson Partners, Desjardins Venture Capital Group, and Purple Angel.
For more information, visit www.naturalconvergence.com or call .

About Atreus Systems
Atreus Systems™ is the service fulfillment leader for IP services and applications. 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).

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