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Sunrise Telecom and Mantas Announce Partnership; Partnership Provides Revenue and Network Assurance Solutions to Communications Service Providers

Posted on: Tuesday, 10 February 2004, 06:00 CST

Sunrise Telecom Incorporated (Nasdaq:SRTI), a leading provider of service verification equipment for telecommunications and cable broadband industries, today announced a partnership with Mantas, Inc. to integrate its network monitoring analyzers with Mantas' network and revenue assurance solutions. ¶ This partnership offers customers an integrated solution to better manage their telecommunications network infrastructure, monitor quality of service status and proactively identify potential points of revenue leakage. ¶ Mantas' customers can now use Sunrise Telecom's network monitoring analyzers as probes to gather real-time data from the network for correlation, analysis, storage and presentation. The Mantas portfolio of decision support solutions helps communications service providers improve operational and financial performance by providing real-time, detailed information and analytically enabled workflow for effective decision support. ¶ Existing Sunrise Telecom customers can now easily expand the functionality of their analyzers to support applications in two main areas: Network Assurance (Best Value Routing and Quality of Service Management) and Revenue Assurance (Fraud Management, Revenue Validation, Billing Verification and Margin Analysis). The Sunrise Telecom suite of network analyzers includes monitoring capabilities for legacy signaling (SS#7, ISDN), next generation (VoIP and SoIP) and 2.5/3G wireless networks (GSM, GPRS and UMTS). ¶"Sunrise Telecom and Mantas have enjoyed a successful relationship over the last few years," said Sue Ribot, Managing Director, Business Development for Mantas. "This announcement formalizes this relationship as our firms aggressively pursue joint opportunities to help communications service providers support revenue and network assurance solutions."¶"The partnership between Mantas and Sunrise Telecom offers comprehensive solutions for traffic analysis, management and network troubleshooting to all operators who are providing service based on GPRS, UMTS, VoIP, SS7, and Signalling over IP technologies," said Franco Messori, Managing Director, for Sunrise Telecom Pro.tel Division.

¶ About Sunrise Telecom Incorporated

¶ Sunrise Telecom manufactures and markets service verification equipment to pre-qualify, verify, and diagnose telecommunications, cable TV, and Internet networks. Sunrise Telecom's products offer broad functionality, leading-edge technology, and compact size to test a variety of broadband services. These include wireline access, including DSL; fiber optics; cable TV; cable modem; and signaling networks. The products are designed to maximize technicians' effectiveness in the field and to provide realistic network simulations for equipment manufacturers to test their products. The company was founded in 1991 and is based in San Jose, California. Sunrise Telecom distributes its products through a network of sales representatives, distributors, and a direct sales force throughout six continents. For more information, visit the company's website at www.sunrisetelecom.com.

¶ About Mantas

¶ Mantas provides next-generation analytic applications for the global financial services and telecommunications markets. The company's products are used by global leaders including Citibank, ABN Amro, Merrill Lynch, and Verizon. Headquartered in Fairfax, Va., the company also has offices in Gaithersburg, Md., London, New York, and New Delhi. Major investors are Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (NYSE:SFE) and SRA International, Inc. (NYSE:SRX). The company can be contacted at 1-866-4- MANTAS (1-866-462-6827) or visit www.mantas.com

¶ NOTE: Sunrise Telecom is a registered trademark of Sunrise Telecom Incorporated. All other trade, product, or service names referenced in this release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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