Service Availability Forum™ Grows To Over 30 Members, Expands To Include Asia Pacific Companies. Forum's Growing Ranks WIll Aid in the Development of Open Specifications for Carrier-grade Communications and Computing Infrastructure.

MERCER ISLAND, Wash. - July 29, 2002 - The Service Availability Forum™, an industry-wide coalition of premier communications and computing companies, today announced the addition of 12 new members, bringing the total to over 30. The Forum's growth underscores the industry-wide movement from proprietary systems to an open, commercial-off-the-shelf production model.

The 12 new members, ranging from clustering solutions vendors to operating systems providers and telecommunications equipment manufacturers, bring invaluable knowledge to the Forum and strong understanding of the communications and computing industry. Together, new and existing Forum members will create and promote the open Service Availability™ programming interface specifications that aid the development of products and solutions for carrier-grade communications and computing infrastructure.

"The addition of these industry leaders demonstrates the Forum's vitality and the industry's commitment to promote the open Service Availability™ specifications," said Michael O'Brien, president of the Service Availability Forum™. "The Forum depends on its members' vast expertise to build an open specification for industry-wide adoption that will ultimately help shorten time-to-market and lower the cost of developing highly available and reliable communications equipment and applications."

Newest members to join the Forum include China TMN; Daisy Technologies; Emic Networks; Eternal Systems, Inc; Huawei Technologies; Mission Critical Linux; NEC Corporation; OSE Systems; TimeSys; UXComm; Wind River, and Znyx Networks. The Service Availability Forum welcomes additional industry participants interested in developing open specifications and promoting industry-wide adoption.

During this period of growth, the Service Availability Forum™ has expanded to include companies headquartered in the Asia Pacific region, joining other leading companies headquartered in Europe and North America. These additions underscore the worldwide collaboration underway to create the open Service Availability™ carrier-grade specifications that meet the global needs of the communications and computing community.

"A critical step in the emergence of a world-wide industry standard is the ability to easily adopt standards based specifications in regions throughout the globe," stated Naotake Takatsukasa, executive general manager of NEC Networks. "The participation of leading companies in Europe and North America -- and now Asia Pacific -- will significantly aid in the development of those open, global specifications."

About the Service Availability Forum™
The Service Availability Forum™ is the industry body dedicated to creating and promoting the open specifications necessary for quickly building global communications equipment and applications that enable ultra-dependability for users of multi-service, packet-based networks. Created by industry leading communications and computing companies, the Service Availability Forum's™ open programming interface specifications will help facilitate the fast delivery of dependable, differentiated, cost-effective communications infrastructure. Service Availability Forum™ membership offers the opportunity to take part in building the carrier-grade specifications for the future. For more information about the Service Availability Forum™, visit www.saforum.org.

About China TMN
ChinaTMN (www.chinatmn.com) Corporation develops and markets software solutions and related services to telecommunications service providers and equipment vendors in China. The company's distributed software generator (DSG) platform enables many telecommunication management network (TMN) applications. The company also offers professional services to global telecommunication equipment vendors.

About Daisy Technologies
Daisy Technologies (www.daisy-tech.com) is a venture capital backed, privately held start-up dedicated to providing complete board-level solutions to next generation network infrastructure OEM market. Designed as modular building blocks on hardware and software level, Daisy's solutions aim to provide interoperability of any protocol/network over any protocol/network through WoW™ technology focus and SMILe™ (Software Modules Independency Layer) framework for ensuring high availability and service availability. Founded in August 2001, Daisy Technologies is headquartered in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

About Emic Networks
Emic Networks (www.emicnetworks.com), the fault tolerance software company, was founded by Internet security and traffic management specialists in response to the explosive growth in the need for reliability and performance in next generation network equipment. Emic Networks develops IP cluster (IP Runner™) products ensuring service availability and dynamic load balancing for Internet devices and applications. Emic Networks is headquartered in Oulu, Finland.

About Eternal Systems, Inc.
Eternal Systems (www.eternal-systems.com) software makes it fast and affordable to create application transparent fault-tolerant solutions for systems where failure would be extraordinarily costly or catastrophic. Designed for the distributed, multi-tiered computing environments typically found in the communications, military, defense, aerospace, industrial control, transportation and medical industries, Eternal Systems' standards-based fault-tolerance infrastructure software enables developers to achieve true fault tolerance without specialized programming expertise or costly complex custom coding. Eternal Systems is recognized for its leadership role in establishing the Object Management Group's Fault Tolerant CORBA standard. Eternal Systems has its headquarters in Santa Barbara, CA.

About HuaWei Technologies
Established in 1988, Huawei Technologies (www.huawei.com) is a private high-tech enterprise fully owned by its employees. Huawei specializes in research and development , production and marketing of communications equipment, providing customized network solutions for telecom carriers in fixed, mobile and data communications networks. With Huawei's success in the access network markets and its 60 percent worldwide market share, the company is ranked as one of the world's leading players in the access network field. With total sales of US$3.1 billion in 2001, Huawei has achieved a substantial increase upon last year's sales.

About Mission Critical Linux
Mission Critical Linux (www.missioncriticallinux.com) provides high-availability clustering solutions for enterprise Linux systems. The company's products enable clients to deploy industry-leading shared-storage and shared-nothing clustering solutions. The company's clustering solutions provide the highest levels of data integrity during system failure. The company has a comprehensive portfolio of products and support offerings allowing clients to deliver the highest quality products to their customers.

About NEC Corporation
NEC Corporation (NASDAQ: NIPNY) (FTSE: 6701q.l) (www.nec.com) is a leading provider of Internet solutions, dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of its customers in the key computer, network and electron device fields through its three market-focused in-house companies: NEC Solutions, NEC Networks and NEC Electron Devices. NEC Corporation, with its in-house companies, employs more than 150,000 people worldwide and saw consolidated net sales of 5,409 billion Yen (approx. US$43 billion) in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2001.

About OSE Systems
OSE Systems (www.ose.com) is the technological leader of real-time operating systems software and services for the communications market. OSE is also used in safety-critical, high-availability, distributed and fault-tolerant applications such as avionics and industrial control. Customers include industry leaders such as Ericsson, Lockheed Martin, Samsung, Agere Systems, Sony and Boeing. OSE Systems is a subsidiary of Enea Data (SAXESS: ENEA). Enea markets and sells services, products and training in specialized technical arenas, including real-time application development and support for embedded systems as well as IT and e-business solutions. Located in Stockholm, Sweden, Enea employs approximately 800 people worldwide.

About TimeSys
TimeSys (www.timesys.com) is a pioneer and leader in Embedded Linux and Java development technologies. Its products allow design engineers to leverage the power, flexibility and reliability of a new class of development tools for advanced embedded systems for a variety of markets and applications, covering the complete performance range from non-real-time to deterministic hard real-time, using both open-source and proprietary technologies. TimeSys is considered the top choice by systems architects for developing more robust, less expensive, single API Linux solutions for embedded systems. TimeSys was the first to create a reservation technology that guarantees system response, even in overloaded systems. TimeSys solutions offer completely predictable and fast response time performance.

About UXComm
UXComm (www.uxcomm.com) is a leading provider of comprehensive, scalable, embedded systems management solutions for the telecommunications and data communications markets. XTend embedded management solutions from UXComm incorporate a standards-based, extensible, multi-protocol run-time platform and development tools that enable rapid development of unified management and control systems for the next generation of network processors, equipment and services. These unified, integrated solutions significantly reduce system development time and enable faster time to market. Founded in 2001, UXComm is a privately held company headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

About Wind River
Wind River (Nasdaq: WIND) (www.windriver) is a worldwide leader in embedded software and services for creating connected smart devices. Wind River provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity software for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications, digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is How Smart Things Think(tm). Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide.

About Znyx Networks, Inc
ZNYX Networks (www.znyx.com) is the leading global provider of high availability embedded Ethernet solutions for CarrierClass™ systems. Equipment manufacturers and system integrators use ZNYX Networks technologies to create next-generation solutions with high-availability, high-performance, and strict compliance to telecommunications standards. The ZNYX Networks family of products and services provide design engineers with pre-built and pre-tested embedded network and switch solutions that provide significant "time to market" advantages. Privately held, ZNYX Networks is headquartered in Fremont, Calif., with advanced research centers in Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Ottawa, Canada. Sales and professional service offices are in North America, Europe and Asia.