Telcordia and Atreus Partner to Deliver Service Definition, Fulfillment and Assurance Solutions

Telcordia and Atreus Partner to Deliver Service Definition,
Fulfillment and Assurance Solutions

(TeleManagement World Booth #75) NICE, FRANCE — MAY 19, 2003 — Telcordia Technologies, Inc., the world’s largest provider of network software, consulting and engineering services to the telecommunications industry, today announced a teaming agreement with Atreus Systems™, a service fulfillment leader for Internet Protocol (IP) service and applications. The success of this partnership means unprecedented value for service providers by helping manage their IP networks, deliver services quickly, and cut operating expenses.

Together the companies will deliver integrated solutions that radically accelerate and simplify service introduction and fulfillment, while improving service assurance for carriers offering IP VPNs and other advanced IP services. This rapid service introduction environment will be an integral part of the Telcordia™ Managed IP Solutions.

"This relationship further demonstrates Telcordia’s commitment to partnering with other ISVs and systems integrators. By teaming with Atreus, we will offer the market’s only operations portfolio for flexible and user customizable service introduction, fulfillment and assurance," said Chris Drake, Vice President, Managed IP Services Portfolio, Telcordia.

"Telcordia’s expertise and leadership in operations support systems will enable us to provide our customers with a complete Managed IP solution," said Andrea Baptiste, President and CEO, Atreus Systems. "Together, we provide a full suite of solutions that will help carriers drive revenue and cut costs with the rapid introduction and automated delivery of advanced IP services."

In today’s communications marketplace, the ability to rapidly deliver advanced, IP-based service bundles requires managing complex processes and devices throughout the network. By combining the expertise of Telcordia and Atreus, we provide an operations environment for service introduction, fulfillment and assurance using a service-centric approach to ensuring quality of service.

The companies will provide a template-driven modeling environment used to define and deploy services rapidly and to proactively monitor the services and health of the network. The portfolio will include support for customer self-service capabilities including ordering, SLA monitoring, and automated service fulfillment for inventory, configuration, and activation.

Telcordia and Atreus can provide carriers with a service library for offering differentiated, user customized service bundles, adding flexibility to a carrier’s marketing strategy without costly infrastructure upgrades to operations systems or labor intensive processing to assemble and maintain new services. As a result, carriers are empowered to experiment with introducing new IP services.

About Atreus Systems
Atreus Systems™ is a service fulfillment leader of IP services and applications. Atreus’ flagship products, the xAuthority Service Fulfillment OSS Solution for wireline and wireless service providers, and the xAuthority™ Identity and Provisioning Solution for government and commercial enterprises, help to reduce operational expenses and improve ROI by automating the introduction and delivery of customer-centric IP services and applications.

With an industry leading product portfolio and established relationships with Tier 1 incumbent operations support system vendors, leading systems integrators and global telecom equipment vendors, Atreus has a proven track record in meeting the challenges of commercial enterprises and large, complex carrier networks. Atreus Systems 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).

About Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
Telcordia Technologies, Inc., an SAIC company, is one of the world’s largest providers of operations support systems, network software and consulting and engineering services to the telecommunications industry. A leader in the development of Next Generation Network technologies, Telcordia (www.telcordia.com) is headquartered in Morristown, NJ with offices throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Central and South America.

Telcordia Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of SAIC. Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements or industry results to be very different from the results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Some of these factors include, but are not limited to, the risk factors set forth in SAIC’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended January 31, 2003, and such other filings that the Company makes with the SEC from time to time. Due to such uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.