Openet Preferred Choice for Telecom & Cable Policy Vendor

DUBLIN, Ireland – May 7, 2009 – Openet, the leading provider of Transactional Intelligence for the world’s largest and most innovative network service providers, has successfully concluded an OEM agreement with Cisco® to distribute Openet’s FusionWorksTM Policy Manager product.  Under the agreement, Cisco will market and sell FusionWorks Policy Manager as a Cisco-branded offering to operators of high-speed wireless, fixed line and cable networks worldwide alongside Cisco’s Mobility Solutions such as Cisco’s deep packet inspection products, which are used by operators to inspect and control data on their networks.

Cisco and Openet have sold products together for several years to provide market-leading solutions to communications service providers. This agreement strengthens this long-standing relationship between the two companies and creates a more tightly integrated offering for operators seeking to dynamically apply business logic within their mobile, landline, cable and WiMAX networks.

Dynamic policy control has emerged as the key to maximising revenue as telecom and cable providers deploy new, personalised services and as a result, must tightly control the use of these services and network resources. Openet has a long history as the leading provider of transactional solutions for this market, and its Policy Manager product is an effective compliment to Cisco’s Mobility Solutions. Cisco chose Openet’s product over alternatives due to the Company’s ongoing innovation, track record and stellar reputation, as well as the sheer scalability and performance of the product.

The Cisco Mobility Solutions enable advanced processing of IP flows through dynamic content examination, subscriber service access control, and subscriber account balance enforcement in a highly scalable, robust package. By tightly integrating Openet’s Transactional Intelligence capabilities with the Cisco deep packet inspection products, Cisco is able to offer a more comprehensive suite of very tightly integrated preconfigured solutions to operators, whereby they can dynamically control access to, and allocation of, network resources to generate new revenue sources and improve the customer experience.

“Cisco’s Mobility Solutions are crucial to operators’ success in generating new revenue streams by controlling and monetising the use of their networks,” said Niall Norton, CEO of Openet. “Deploying Openet’s industry-leading policy management product in conjunction with Cisco’s proven deep packet inspection products creates a tightly integrated solution for operators worldwide from the industry leader in IP network infrastructure.”

The Cisco-branded policy management product will be available in the coming months. Inquiries for the product can be made directly to Openet. For more information, please visit http://www.openet.com/cisco

For more information on Openet’s Policy Manager Solution, for which version 2.5 was announced yesterday, please visit: http://www.openet.com/news-events/press-releases/05-06-2009.html