OpenSAF Foundation Expands Membership With Software Application Providers Tail-f...

OpenSAF Foundation Expands Membership With Software Application Providers
Tail-f Systems and IP Infusion

New members enhance the OpenSAF eco-system by providing support and
integration for open source, high availability middleware projects.

DANVILLE, Calif., July 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The OpenSAF Foundation,
the umbrella organization for the OpenSAF open source high availability
middleware project, announced today that its membership has expanded with the
addition of Tail-f Systems and IP Infusion(TM) Inc., two leading software
vendors to the communications industry. Membership in the OpenSAF Foundation
provides Tail-f Systems and IP Infusion the benefits of the various marketing
programs of OpenSAF in the context of their support, use, and distribution of
the code as well as access to the OpenSAF foundation workgroups. Tail-f
Systems and IP Infusion will add their expertise in management and
communication protocols to enhance the OpenSAF open source project from the
integration and user perspectives.

"Tail-f Systems and IP Infusion are well recognized providers of network
management and routing platforms to the telecommunications equipment
industry," said Alan Meyer, president of the OpenSAF Foundation. "We look
forward to Tail-f Systems and IP Infusion contributing to the Foundation, and
the industry at large, by expanding the installed base and range of
applications that use the OpenSAF high availability middleware."

As new members of the OpenSAF Foundation, leaders at IP Infusion and Tail-f
Systems expressed their interests and goals in joining the foundation.
President and CEO of IP Infusion, Koichi Narasaki said, "We are pleased to be
joining the OpenSAF Foundation and the community of software vendors
leveraging the OpenSAF middleware. We see increasing demand for integration
between our communication protocols and OpenSAF, which is why IP Infusion will
be distributing OpenSAF with our products." Hakan Millroth, CEO of Tail-f
Systems, added, "Porting to a middleware platform with such strong backing
from leading communications and enterprise computing companies allows us to
meet customer needs in a cost-efficient manner."

About OpenSAF
The OpenSAF project is an open source project established to develop a base
platform high availability middleware consistent with the Service Availability
Forum(TM) (SA Forum(TM)) specifications. The OpenSAF Foundation was
established by leading communications and computing companies to facilitate
the OpenSAF project and to accelerate the adoption of the OpenSAF code base in
commercial products. The OpenSAF code is licensed under the GNU Lesser General
Public License, version 2.1 (LGPL v2.1). Anyone can participate in the OpenSAF
project by downloading the code, and contributing to the development project

About IP Infusion
IP Infusion Inc. delivers advanced software solutions that power
communications equipment for packet-based Next Generation Networks (NGN). With
a unique modular architecture and the industry's broadest suite of
communication protocols, IP Infusion enhances product differentiation and
market agility for many of the world's leading network equipment vendors.
Incorporated in Delaware in October 1999, IP Infusion is headquartered in
Sunnyvale, California, and is a wholly owned and independently-operated
subsidiary of ACCESS Systems Americas, Inc., (which is a wholly owned U.S.
subsidiary of ACCESS CO., LTD., of Tokyo, Japan.) For more information about
IP Infusion, please visit http://www.ipinfusion.com.

About Tail-f Systems
Tail-f Systems is the leading developer of on-device configuration management
software for network equipment vendors. Customers using Tail-f's technology
radically reduce their time-to-market and benefit from carrier-grade
implementations of NETCONF, CLI, Web, and SNMP interfaces. Tail-f is a
venture-funded company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. For more
information, please visit http://www.tail-f.com.

Learn more about the OpenSAF Project at http://devel.opensaf.org/
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