[May 24, 2000]

Trillium Announces Partner Program To Accelerate Time-To-Market And Reduce Development Costs And Risks

Trillium Digital Systems, Inc., a provider of communications software solutions, announced the Trillium Partner Program, providing equipment manufacturers the opportunity to leverage the synergies of integrated software/hardware solutions to accelerate their time-to-market and reduce their development costs and risks. Trillium is working with select operating system, chip, board, platform and software companies to more fully integrate their respective solutions with each other, providing confidence that customers can realize substantial time-to-market benefits and cost savings. Trillium's Partner Program offers members access to Trillium's world-class technical support infrastructure, the security derived from partnering with an IS0 9001-certified software company and promotional opportunities through various joint-marketing activities.

As an added benefit, Trillium's partners have the option of engaging Trillium for professional services to help integrate Trillium's software with their products. Trillium's professional services engineers -- with their broad exposure to innovative customer projects in the dynamic communications marketplace -- can recommend superior solutions to customers. Customers benefit both from using these leading-edge integrated solutions and also from using Trillium's professional services capacity so they can focus their own scarce engineering talent on value-added product differentiation.

"Trillium recognizes the time-to-market demands faced by communications equipment manufacturers and the tremendous value gained by quickly integrating leading-edge technologies into complete systems solutions," said Frank Morese, vice president - Marketing, Trillium Digital Systems. "We are pleased to partner with other leading communications technology providers to facilitate the development and demonstration of integrated solutions and also offer them a comprehensive program of joint marketing opportunities that complement and broaden their existing marketing channels."

"Over the years, Trillium has developed valuable relationships with established leaders in the communications equipment marketplace as well as with emerging OEMs," said Matt Semenza, director - OEM/Partner Alliances. "This new program enables our customers to leverage our expertise and that of our partners by selecting integrated solutions that meet their next-generation networking equipment requirements."

The unique product development requirements of manufacturers of chips, boards, open communications platforms, and real time operating systems are addressed respectively through the following categories of Trillium's Partner Program: Trillium Software on Silicon (for chip and semiconductor partners), Trillium on Board (for board and platform partners) and Trillium Compliant (for software partners).

Current members of Trillium's new program include Basis Communications (an Intel company) Enea OSE Systems, Force Computers Inc. (a Solectron company), ipVerse, Lucent Microelectronics Group of Lucent Technologies [NYSE: LU], LynuxWorks (previously known as Lynx Real Time Systems), QNX, Motorola Computer Group of Motorola's Integrated Electronic Systems Sector, SBE Inc., Sun MicroSystems, Voiceboard, Vsys and Wind River Systems. Trillium's Partner Program complements other long-standing Trillium development initiatives to provide solutions that interwork seamlessly with other operating systems (e.g., VxWorks/Tornado, pSOS, Solaris, Windows NT and Linux) and Trillium's strategic business relationship with Intel Corporation announced last year.

"Trillium offers customers a heightened versatility in their communications applications," said Ulrika Wase, Product Manager, Enea OSE Systems. "As the OSE Real Time Operating System (RTOS) has passed compliance with all of Trillium's protocols through the SSI, our customers now have a full range of communications options for their product development projects."

"The needs of the communications OEM market are demanding and our customers will benefit from an enhanced level of service and a shorter time-to-market that Trillium's partner program will deliver, enabling OEMs to focus more on their core competencies," said Winfried Guba, vice president and general manager of Standard & Telecom Platforms of Force Computers. "We look forward to expanding our relationship with Trillium to leverage the many benefits of integrated software/hardware solutions."

"Lucent Technologies' Phone-on-a-Chip solution is a great example of the innovative next-generation communications products that result from relationships between leading hardware and software technology providers," said Caleb Strittmater, strategic marketing director - Enterprise IP telephony, with Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group. "By teaming with Trillium to integrate their leading IP telephony software and using their professional services capacity to create a complete system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution for IP phone manufacturers, we were able to combine great technologies and simultaneously offer significant time-to-market benefits for our customers."

"As a leading supplier of embedded computing platforms, Motorola Computer Group is pleased to be a founding member of the Trillium partner program," said John Hughes, vice president - telecommunications business, Motorola Computer Group. "Over the years, we have worked together with Trillium to provide our customers with industry-leading solutions. Telecommunications OEMs have separately selected our complementary hardware and software solutions for their products. By joining Trillium's Partner Program, we are pleased to be able to accelerate the availability of integrated solutions and reduce our customers' product development risks."

"Trillium's broad range of software solutions will be invaluable to us as we continue to deliver new high-performance communication interface products for telephony, Internet, intelligent network, wireless and broadband networks. By joining Trillium's partner program, we can explore new channels to help us accelerate the deployment of our combined products into the marketplace," said Stephen K. Nester, Vice President of Business Development at SBE, Inc.

"Trillium software has been the key enabler bringing SBE and T.sqware together for network processor-based SS7 applications. We look forward to their continued involvement in GlobeSpan's central office solutions," says Kent Bossange, Senior Director of Marketing for GlobeSpan's CO Business Products Group. (Formerly T.sqware, now a GlobeSpan company.)

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