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Togabi Selects GoAhead Software for Instant Communications



BELLEVUE, Wash. & SAN DIEGO, Mar 5, 2003 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Togabi Technologies(TM) and GoAhead(R) Software today announced the selection of GoAhead's reliability middleware for Togabi's PacketCHAT(TM) solution for wireless carriers.

Togabi is a leader in instant wireless communications services for network operators, and GoAhead provides an integrated suite of embedded middleware for highly reliable systems and applications.

Togabi's relationship with GoAhead enables them to deliver dependable, next generation wireless services that are instrumental to the future revenue growth of wireless carriers. Togabi's PacketCHAT is an end-to-end suite of instant communications solutions, including Push-To-Talk (PTT), voice instant messaging and wireless chat. With wireless operators and subscribers expecting highly reliable, uninterrupted service from these emerging IP-based voice services, Togabi selected GoAhead SelfReliant(TM) to provide the high availability capabilities for their new VoIP application. Available today, Togabi's PacketCHAT is currently undergoing extensive product trials with major domestic and international wireless carriers.

"Wireless subscribers are particularly unforgiving of unreliable voice service, so we need to offer our customers, the wireless network operators, a hardened, carrier-grade solution," said Andy Rimkus, vice president of sales and marketing for Togabi. "After evaluating different technologies and approaches to the problem, we selected GoAhead SelfReliant as the 'best-in-breed' product to ensure the reliability and availability our customers expect."

Togabi's PacketCHAT is comprised of client software in commercial wireless handsets, and software infrastructure hosted on standard IP-based server platforms running in Intel/Linux and Solaris operating environments. The application supports all wireless packet networks including CDMA/1xRTT, GSM/GPRS, 802.11x, and future 3G networks. GoAhead SelfReliant is cross-platform middleware that resides on the PacketCHAT server providing availability management, high speed messaging services, in-memory database capability and embedded systems management. These functions enable up to "five-nines" availability, millisecond failover speeds, preservation of the customer's PTT session state during an unrelated failure, and support for large traffic volumes. SelfReliant customers include leading network equipment providers, and it is the middleware solution chosen by the major commercial server and cPCI vendors.

"Togabi is a pioneering software infrastructure company that understands the importance of uninterrupted service for wireless carriers," said Doug Brown, president of GoAhead Software. "Rather than develop the SelfReliant functionality in-house, Togabi chose commercial, off-the-shelf middleware from GoAhead and standard server platforms to offer a highly reliable, unique product rapidly at less cost for its customers."

About Togabi Technologies

Togabi Technologies (http://www.togabi.com), located in San Diego California, is a leading technology provider of instant wireless communications applications for 1XRTT, GPRS, and 3G networks, including Push-To-Talk (PTT), voice instant messaging, and consumer voice chat. With key wireless handset vendor relationships and with extensive customer trials of its technology underway across several continents, Togabi offers unique carrier-grade, standards-based software solutions for the newest generation of wireless data networks being deployed today.

About GoAhead Software, Inc.

GoAhead Software (www.goahead.com) provides the first integrated, platform-independent suite of middleware for communications, military/aerospace, industrial controls and other industries developing highly reliable embedded systems and applications. The company's products are used by developers and include availability management, distributed messaging, in-memory database and embedded systems management. GoAhead products help developers reduce project risk, lower costs and achieve faster time-to-market. The privately held company's headquarters are in Bellevue, Washington.

Togabi and PacketCHAT are trademarks of Togabi Technologies, Inc.; GoAhead is a registered trademark and SelfReliant is a trademark of GoAhead Software, Inc.
CONTACT: GoAhead Software
Karen Edwards, 425/468-5417
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Togabi Technologies
Andy Rimkus, 858/453-6999
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