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LynxOS/Trillium solution broadens developer options for creating software architecture to create high-reliability communications systems

SAN JOSÉ, Calif.—March 5, 2001—Trillium Digital Systems, Inc., an Intel company, and LynuxWorks™ Inc. today announced the first certified application-space mapping of the Trillium System Services Interface (SSI) to LynxOS®. Trillium Compliant™ certification of LynxOS for the Trillium Advanced Portability Architecture (TAPA®) means that developers can choose LynxOS for the Trillium SSI that can run Trillium protocol stacks in the application space.

TAPA is a set of architectural and coding standards that ensures consistent implementation of communication protocol solutions. Due to its complete independence from the target system's compiler, processor, operating system and architecture, TAPA allows manufacturers to rapidly adapt and integrate Trillium software solutions into a wide range of products. By providing an integrated interface that is Trillium Compliant, LynuxWorks alleviates the need to perform time-consuming integration work and enables developers to reduce time to market, lessen risks and decrease costs of bringing a product to market.

Telecommunications equipment manufacturers can use the integrated, tested, industry-standard Trillium software solutions to accelerate development of feature-rich IP telephony, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and next-generation converged network infrastructure equipment.

LynuxWorks' LynxOS is a hard real-time operating system (RTOS) that combines performance, reliability, openness, and scalability together with patented technology for real-time event handling. Scalability makes the LynxOS well suited for applications ranging from large and complex switching systems down to small, highly embedded products. With Trillium's SSI layer, LynxOS will enable companies to migrate tens- or even hundreds of thousands of lines of protocol stack code out of the kernel, into the application space. This reduces kernel software maintenance and enhances system reliability because any protocol code failure that may occur is far less catastrophic in application space than in the kernel.

"The certification for Trillium's most current software release continues a long-standing relationship between our two companies, based on our mutual support of OEMs in the communications industry," said Brian Ramsey, director of communications and high availability markets for LynuxWorks. "This agreement ensures that LynuxWorks' OEM customers can seamlessly incorporate any of a broad range of off-the-shelf communications software solutions into their applications, including SS7 over IP (SIGTRAN), SIP, IP telephony/H.323, Media Gateway Control (MEGACO/H.248), ATM and other standards-based protocols."

"This is a huge step forward in providing more flexibility to manufacturers seeking ways to improve product reliability and performance," said Frank Morese, vice president of Marketing for Trillium. "The software solutions provided by LynuxWorks and Trillium work together to support fault-tolerant high availability systems demanded in today's 5-Nines (99.999%) carrier-grade infrastructure equipment."

The two companies work closely together. In addition to the Trillium Compliant certification work, Trillium is a member of LynuxWorks' alliance network, SynergyWorks, which provides a framework for cooperation in adding customer value for future products and services. LynuxWorks' innovative mapping of the latest Trillium SSI into LynxOS application-space adds the protection of the LynxOS Reliable Processing Environment for enhanced fault management, system reliability and availability. Trillium's Distributed Fault-Tolerant/High Availability (DFT/HA) architecture supports redundant protocol stacks, checkpointing and 'failover' for continued communications connectivity even in the event of a hardware failure.

About LynuxWorks

LynuxWorks Inc. is an Intel Applied Computing Platform Provider (ACPP) and Intel Portfolio Company that provides open source and true real-time embedded solutions for the post-PC era. LynuxWorks supports industry standards in communications, aerospace and defense, consumer and business electronics, industrial control systems, Internet infrastructures, automotive/transportation, medical devices, and retail industries. LynuxWorks products include the open-source BlueCat™ Linux; the scalable, Linux-compatible LynxOS real-time operating system; software frameworks for high-availability systems; development tools and technical support worldwide.

About Trillium

Trillium Digital Systems, Inc., an Intel company, is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and is a leading provider of communications software solutions for the converged network infrastructure. Trillium's source-code solutions are used in more than 500 projects by industry-leading suppliers of wireless, Internet, broadband and telephony products. Trillium's high-performance, high-availability software and services reduce time, risk and cost of implementing SS7, IP, ATM, Wireless and other standards-based communications protocols. Trillium, an ISO 9001-certified software company, is the Networking Software Division of Intel's Network Processing Group which focuses on the Intel® Internet Exchange Architecture. Additional information is available at www.trillium.com.

LynuxWorks and BlueCat are trademarks and LynxOS is a registered trademark of LynuxWorks, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Other brand or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of the respective holders. Trillium, Trillium Digital Systems and TAPA are registered trademarks of Trillium Digital Systems, Inc. The Future is Ahead of Schedule, The World's Source for Communications Software, Quick!Start, Software On Silicon, Trillium On Board, and Trillium Compliant are trademarks of Trillium Digital Systems, Inc. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

LynuxWorks press contacts

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