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Telcordia® OSS & COMMON LANGUAGE® Suite gains Powered by SAP NetWeaver® status

SAP Certified Integration of Telcordia solutions further drives operator service efficiency

PISCATAWAY, NJ - May 21, 2007 - Telcordia (www.telcordia.com ) today announced that its OSS & COMMON LANGUAGE® Suite 1.0 has achieved "Powered by SAP NetWeaver®" status. The certified integration helps meet the demand from global service providers for seamless process and data integration between telecoms Operations Support Systems (OSS) and the SAP NetWeaver platform.

The SAP Integration and Certification Center has certified that the Telcordia OSS & Common Language Suite 1.0 properly integrates with the SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure (SAP NetWeaver XI) component of the SAP NetWeaver platform to exchange critical data with instances of the SAP Business Suite. It has also been demonstrated that the Telcordia OSS & Common Language Suite is integrated successfully with the SAP NetWeaver Portal.

"Telcordia has been leading the development of solutions that allow service providers to benefit from more cost-effective and agile operations support systems," said Allen Seidman, Vice President, Common Language, Telcordia. "Service providers must streamline their networks in order to profitably offer interactive new multimedia services and SAP certified integration of the Telcordia OSS & Common Language Suite shows that Telcordia has, once again, extended this capability so that cost and time-to-market benefits are achieved."

The Telcordia Common Language Suite provides a well defined data infrastructure and managed information service on behalf of the industry. Common Language provides a corporate master data management strategy to help subscribers manage networks and services, automate network interconnection, reduce errors, manual work, and service activation delays and support the latest services. Ultimately, this standardized data architecture can assist service providers to streamline their communication with their suppliers, engineering and warehouse operations.

The SAP NetWeaver platform powers the SAP Business Suite family of applications, SAP xApps™ packaged composite applications, and solutions such as Telcordia OSS & Common Language Suite. SAP NetWeaver unifies integration technologies into a single platform and is pre-integrated with business applications, enabling change and reducing the need for custom integration..

More information about Telcordia® Common Language® Products can be found at http://www.telcordia.com/products/commonlang.html.

More information about Telcordia OSS including the Telcordia Fulfillment Suite can be found http://www.telcordia.com/markets/fulfillment/index.html. Information about Granite Inventory can be found at http://www.telcordia.com/products/inventory/index.html and information about Telcordia® Network Engineer can be found at http://www.telcordia.com/products/network_eng/index.html. General information about Telcordia can be found at www.telcordia.com.

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Contact:
Sharon Oddy
Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
(732) 699-4203
oddys@telcordia.com

Simon Marshall
Liberty Communications
+44-20-7751-4444
simon@libertycomms.com