Teja Technologies Inc., the leading supplier of embedded networking and communications software for multi-core processor architectures, today announced that Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW), the world leader in multi-core platforms and servers for the telecommunications industry, has selected the awarding-winning Teja NP Software Platform for its Network Data Plane Suite (NDPS). Using the NDPS in conjunction with Sun's Netra servers and ATCA blades incorporating the UltraSPARC T1 processor with CoolThreads? technology, network equipment providers can rapidly develop advanced, high-performance data plane applications.

?As the market for converged services heats up, network equipment providers need to get to market quickly with reliable high-performance services and applications that will allow them to secure and retain market share,? said Raju Penumatcha, Sun Microsystems' vice president of Netra Systems and Networking. ?As a result, we needed to provide our customers with a development platform that could create advanced applications quickly with high performance and reliability. We picked Teja NP because we found it to provide the best reliability, performance, scalability and reuse.?

Under the agreement, Sun will leverage a version of Teja's industry leading software platform for multi-core applications for its NDPS suite. Sun's NDPS suite is targeted at network equipment providers using Netra servers and ATCA blades for advanced telecommunications data plane applications.

?Sun's Netra multi-core chip and ATCA blade offering is a compelling solution for any networking OEM looking to develop advanced applications,? said Akash Deshpande, founder and CTO for Teja Technologies. ?The addition of Teja's software technology to this industry leading hardware gives those OEMs the ability to get their applications operating at optimal performance levels more quickly, thus allowing them to get to market before the competition.?

The NDPS suite is available from Sun for their new Netra line of UltraSPARC T1 ATCA blades and rack servers featuring CoolThreads technology executing 32 simultaneous processing threads.

About Teja NP

Teja's unique approach to embedded networking applications greatly simplifies development of software for parallel, multiprocessing architectures. An OEM's primary challenge in designing with these types of systems is in properly partitioning the application code among the multiple processors, allocating shared memory resources, and building a framework to support scheduling, inter-processor communication and synchronization. Teja NP gives OEMs the ability to define a complete system's application logic in hardware-independent C code and map it separately to the various resources of the target hardware configuration, resulting in the automatic generation of validated and optimized production code for the target system. The benefits of using Teja NP include the development of reliable, high-performance and scalable products that provide OEMs with a first-to-market advantage with significant reduction in engineering risk.

About Teja

Teja Technologies provides the industry's award-winning advanced software platform for multiprocessor architectures. The company's products deliver significant competitive advantages in terms of cost savings, improved performance, scalability, and faster time-to-market which are key in today's fast moving networking markets. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Teja is privately held and backed by world-class investors including Blueprint Ventures, ICCP Venture Partners, Intel Communications Fund, Mayfield, SmartForest Ventures, and Tallwood Venture Capital. For additional information, visit Teja's website at www.teja.com.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

A singular vision ? "The Network Is The Computer" ? guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

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