HP Expands Server Offerings to Help Telecoms Reduce Costs in Telephony and IT Networks

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
HP (NYSE:HPQ) today expanded its telecom hardware portfolio with powerful,
carrier-grade versions of the company`s most advanced enterprise servers and
storage products.

The new offerings provide telecom companies the reliability set by NEBS
requirements, as well as the lower cost and flexibility of industry-standard
products.

Targeted at service providers and network equipment suppliers, the products
include the HP BladeSystem Carrier-Grade (CG) platform, the HP ProLiant
carrier-grade rack-mount server and the HP carrier-grade storage array. The new
products can be deployed in both telephony and IT networks, enabling customers
to operate more efficiently as the two environments converge.

"Customers are looking for flexible, open platforms that deliver greater speed,
more agility and lower costs," said Chuck Smith, vice president, BladeSystem
Business Development, HP. "With expertise in both telecom and IT, HP provides a
family of servers that combines the best of both worlds: the cost-effectiveness
of proven IT platforms plus the reliability, performance and ETSI/NEBS Level 3
certification of carrier-grade platforms."

Using the most advanced Intel processors, both the HP BladeSystem and the HP
ProLiant platforms double the performance of their predecessors and provide
greater energy efficiency.

The two HP carrier-grade platforms support a variety of operating environments,
including Windows, Linux, HP-UX, OpenVMS and Solaris from Sun Microsystems. By
joint agreement, HP will distribute and provide full software support for Sun
Solaris 10 on HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem platforms.

In addition to blade and rack-mount servers, HP offers a large portfolio of
telecom software, services and integrated solutions to the world`s 200 major
service providers and network equipment suppliers.

Industry support for HP platforms

Acision, which provides communications for more than 300 network operators and
service providers globally, is using HP BladeSystem platforms as it takes
advantage of the ongoing convergence between telephony and IT.

"As the world`s leading messaging company, Acision is focused on providing
customers with high-value solutions quickly and cost-effectively," said Anantha
Ramu, vice president and principal architect, Engineering, Acision. "With the
ability to host both enterprise and carrier-grade applications on a single
platform, the HP Integrity BL860c server blade helps Acision minimize
engineering and testing costs and reduce our time-to-market for new messaging
solutions."

Oracle, a global leader in communications software, is enabling communications
service providers to scale services profitably on the latest generation of HP
BladeSystem servers.

"The performance and scalability of the Oracle Communications software running
on HP BladeSystem servers is an ideal blend for helping service providers
increase monetization speed while maintaining control," said Indu Kodukula, vice
president, Service Delivery Products, Oracle. "The HP BladeSystem infrastructure
reduced our engineering and integration costs, enabling our customers to scale
immediately with low operating costs."

New servers and storage expand HP portfolio

The new additions to HP`s carrier-grade portfolio include the following:

* HP ProLiant DL380 G6 server doubles performance over previous versions of the
rack-mount server. It also provides significant gains in energy efficiency. Now
available in a carrier-grade version, the HP ProLiant DL380 G6 includes two
2.53-GHz Intel quad-core processors.
* HP StorageWorks MSA2000fc G2 and MSA2000sa G2 carrier-grade storage arrays
deliver support for high-availability and data protection capabilities through
features such as snapshots for point-in-time copies of data. They support up to
twenty-four 146 gigabyte SAS disks (3.5 terabytes) in a single 2U enclosure and
are available in a dual-array controller configuration. A choice of host
connectivity with Fibre Channel or SAS is also available.
* HP Integrity BL860c carrier-grade server blade provides extreme scalability
and high performance for applications such as text messaging. The server blade
is designed for the HP c7000-cg enclosure.
* HP ProLiant BL460c G6 carrier-grade server blade delivers performance that is
two times faster than previous versions. Energy efficiency also is enhanced
significantly. The HP ProLiant BL460c G6 is upgraded with two 2.53-GHz Intel
quad-core processors, which enable a single HP BladeSystem c7000-cg enclosure to
accommodate up to 16 blades for a total of 32 Intel quad-core processors in a
10U enclosure.

HP also announced enablement of OpenSAF and OpenHPI on HP BladeSystem
Carrier-Grade and HP ProLiant Carrier-Grade rack-mount platforms. Both OpenSAF
and OpenHPI are open source implementations of Service Availability Forum (SA
Forum) specifications. HP is a founding member and major contributor to OpenSAF.

HP Financial Services, the company`s leasing and lifecycle asset management
services subsidiary, helps customers expand or renew their IT infrastructures
through flexible leasing and financing solutions.

More information on HP platforms for service providers is available at
http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/carrier_grade/index.html.

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