Vertel Announces Real-Time Product Extensions to e*ORB
 
Partnership with Tri-Pacific Software to Offer Additional CORBA Functionality
 

Woodland Hills, California, November 14, 2000. Vertel® Corporation (NASDAQ:VRTL), a leading provider of middleware for the telecommunications market, today announced new real-time product extensions for e*ORB™. The product extensions support the Object Management Group's (OMG) new specification for real-time application programmer interfaces (API) as well as improves the pluggable transport and protocol that will enable a software developer to use priority based messaging in Quality of Service (QoS) enabled networks. In addition, this new product extension improves upon latency and jitter performance — two key measures of real-time software performance.

Partnership with Tri-Pacific Software, Inc.

Further enriching this product extension is the integration of the real-time version of e*ORB with Tri-Pacific's RapidRMA/RapidSCHED real-time design tool and scheduling service, which introduces the first distributed global scheduling service for CORBA middleware. The Vertel and Tri-Pacific solution gives developers full control over the real-time challenges of software development from design through implementation to execution. During the design stage, the RapidRMA solution enables a developer to analyze, plan, and optimize the timing architecture of the distributed software application in advance.

The integration of RapidSCHED and e*ORB creates a fully supported real-time CORBA solution for developers who require robust, predictable and efficient distributed real-time middleware.

"This integration eliminates the requirement that the application engineer also become a timing and scheduling expert while providing an optimal distributed global scheduling solution," said Jay Abbasi, VP of Sales for Tri-Pacific Software. "Simply put, the new combination of RapidSCHED and e*ORB enables companies to focus on creating quality products faster, while avoiding software timing or scheduling issues."

The combination allows implementers of embedded real-time systems ranging from optical switches to wireless end-devices the ability to predictably handle different protocols and data types across different hardware platforms, without tedious and expensive "trial and error" software development.

"Vertel is taking on the challenges of real-time software development from the perspective of the developer, who needs flexibility without complexity," said Patrick Tao, VP Product Marketing for Vertel. "By working with Tri-Pacific, we have delivered a complete, distributed, end-to-end e*ORB solution that is easy to use and has the power and flexibility needed for telecom strength real-time software."

Vertel provides one-stop shopping for e*ORB and RapidRMA/RapidSCHED through its licensing and support agreement with Tri-Pacific.

About Tri-Pacific Software, Inc.

Tri-Pacific Software, Inc. (Making Real-Time a Reality™) is the premier provider of real-time scheduling solutions to the software industry. The company fulfills the needs of real-time embedded and safety critical systems in a variety of applications, including: automotive control, telecommunications, wireless applications, embedded internet, real-time internet, avionics, defense electronics, networking, manufacturing, and real-time CORBA. Company headquarters is in Alameda, CA. Tri-Pacific also has a sales and product development office in Dallas, TX.

For more information on Tri-Pacific Software or its products, contact Tri-Pacific at

1070 Marina Village Parkway, Suite 202,
Alameda, California 94501;
telephone: (510) 814-1770;
fax: (510) 814-1788

http://www.tripac.com

About Vertel

Vertel is a leading provider of middleware for the telecommunications industry. Vertel provides high performance, reliable middleware for connecting modern, distributed computing software. The company specializes in software that manages broadband, wireless and internet networks and the embedded software that runs the hardware in these networks.

Vertel middleware provides software-to-software communication for connecting telecom management systems together, connecting the distributed software inside telecom network equipment and connecting the communication software of mobile devices such as hand-held PDAs with network based applications.

Vertel products are sold worldwide to network equipment manufacturers, service providers, software vendors and systems integrators. The company's customer base is a "who's who" of the telecom industry. Vertel also develops turnkey management applications that fit individual customer requirements through its Professional Services Unit. The company is based in Woodland Hills, Calif., and has sales offices throughout the world.

For more information on Vertel or its products, contact Vertel at

21300 Victory Boulevard, Suite 700,
Woodland Hills, Calif. 91367;
telephone: (818) 227-1400;
fax: (818) 598-0047

http://www.vertel.com

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