Piscataway, NJ — March 1, 2006 — Continuing to drive worldwide momentum in the network design arena, Telcordia today announced a breakthrough innovation with the availability of the Design Assistant module of the award-winning Telcordia® Network Engineer. Design Assistant meets the evolving needs of communications service providers worldwide by streamlining and accelerating the network design process. It allows lead planners to automate numerous labor-intensive tasks in the design process using powerful configuration tools to enter rules and models. The module then creates point-and-click wizards for different build-out scenarios that enable any planner to quickly produce complex designs that adhere to corporate standards.  The module significantly reduces the time and cost of network build-outs and eliminates the experience gap among network planners.

Service providers that deploy Design Assistant will be able to streamline the network design process by:

·    Sharing experience and knowledge across the organization via online wizards

·    Automatically guiding planning practices step-by-step

·    Enabling all planners, regardless of experience, to plan build-outs in a fraction of the time it took to do so manually

·    Generating optimized network layouts for every business scenario

·    Using log-tracking trend analysis to correct nonstandard planning practices.

 Network Engineer, built on the ESRI® ArcGIS™ platform, is a comprehensive geospatial solution for the planning, design and management of network and physical inventory. It supports an integrated view of both inside and outside plant engineering and has proven performance and production-ready credentials with more than 60 successful implementations in 21 countries. This visually intensive, easy-to-use solution provides a unique combination of land-base information overlaid with network data contained in a sophisticated geodatabase that supports all new network technologies.

More information on Telcordia Network Engineer and other mission-critical Telcordia solutions can be found at www.telcordia.com.

 About Telcordia

Telcordia Technologies, Inc. is a leading global provider of telecommunications network software and services for IP, wireline, wireless, and cable. As the industry continuously evolves, Telcordia is focused on being the undisputed transformation partner for its customers. By delivering flexible, standards-based software solutions and consulting services that optimize complex network and business support systems, Telcordia helps customers transform their business while aggressively reducing costs and growing revenues. Telcordia is headquartered in Piscataway, N.J, with offices throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Central and Latin America. (MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "njmail.telcordia.com" claiming to be www.telcordia.com)

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