Approved for Immediate Release

OpenSS7 announces software release of M2PA (SS7 MTP2-User Peer-to-peer Adaptation Layer) SS7 link software in anticipation of draft-ietf-sigtran-m2ua-04.

(Plano, Texas -- December 11, 2001) OpenSS7 Corporation announced that today The OpenSS7 Project realeased an Open Source implementation of the IETF "SS7 MTP2-User Peer-to-peer Adaptation Layer" protocol described in the Internet-Draft draft-ietf-sigtran-m2pa-03. The software was released under the GNU Public License Version 2.

"This significant step forward by The OpenSS7 Project accents our support and sponsorship of Open Source projects for the IETF SIGTRAN protocols," said Tamara Bidulock, CEO OpenSS7 Corporation. "This is the first release in our SIGTRAN protocol suite which will also soon include M2UA, M3UA, SUA and TUA."

OpenSS7 Corporation (www.openss7.com) is the world-leading supplier of Open Source developed Next Generation Network solutions based on the SS7 signalling protocol. OpenSS7 is the principle sponsor of "The OpenSS7 Project," an Open Source project which provides SS7 Stacks, SS7 over IP Stacks, SCTP and other enabling software technologies and applications related to SS7. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, OpenSS7 Corporation provides software licensing, training, consulting and development services.

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