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  SNOWSHORE NETWORKS AND OPENWAVE PARTNER TO DRIVE CONVERGED BROADBAND MESSAGING
  

  SnowShore's Media Servers to Support Openwave's Broadband Messaging Products; Solution Brings New Levels of Scalability and Performance To IP Voice Messaging Offerings
 
CHELMSFORD, Mass. and REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - December 10, 2002 -- SnowShore, innovators in IP enhanced communications infrastructure, and Openwave Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: OPWV), the leading independent provider of open software products and services for the communications industry, today announced that the companies plan to collaborate to enable SnowShore’s media servers to power Openwave’s voice messaging software. This collaboration will make it possible for broadband voice and data service providers to deliver valuable messaging services by extending Openwave’s proven messaging platform for email, voicemail and multimedia, which is deployed in large-scale carrier networks.

“Broadband technologies are central to the network infrastructure investments that Openwave carrier customers are making today—whether their core business is wireline or wireless,” noted John Yuzdepski, vice president and general manager of Messaging Products at Openwave. “The applications that these technologies enable range from traditional voicemail to new voice and data service bundles that cross subscriber segments. SnowShore’s media server advantages are its scalability, flexibility, breadth of protocol support for VXML, SIP and MGCP-based services, and wire speed processing performance. Together, Openwave and SnowShore will enable operators to deliver valuable voice messaging services over IP.”

“The Openwave/SnowShore solution will offer broadband carriers clear competitive advantages over competing communication technologies by delivering compelling voice/data services across a single, flexible, highly scalable platform,” said SnowShore chief executive officer, Joel Hughes. “This collaboration enables broadband operators and their subscribers to realize the benefits of IP, giving new profit potential to service providers and lower cost, higher value communications services to end users.”

As part of the collaboration, the companies intend to join each other’s partner programs and engage in joint sales opportunities. Currently, the Openwave-SnowShore solution is in trials with several network service providers in North America.

About Openwave
 
Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV) is the worldwide leader of open IP-based communication infrastructure software and applications. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information, please visit www.openwave.com

About SnowShore Networks
 
SnowShore Networks (www.SnowShore.com) is a telecommunications equipment company that provides innovative IP communications infrastructure products to service providers worldwide. SnowShore's N20 and A1 Media Servers are IP-optimized media-processing platforms that blend voice and dynamic web content to enrich the user's communications experience. As the foundation of the carrier's applications infrastructure, the media server vastly improves the creation, deployment and management of traditional services and makes possible visionary new voice services. Founded in May 2000, SnowShore Networks is privately held and backed by Charles River Ventures, Matrix Partners, St Paul Ventures, and 3i.
SnowShore Networks: Powering the Service-Ready Network™.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements
 
This release contains forward-looking statements relating to expectations, plans or prospects for Openwave Systems Inc. that are based upon the current expectations and beliefs of Openwave's management and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. In particular, the following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements: (a) the ability to realize our strategic objectives by taking advantage of market opportunities in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia; (b) the ability to make changes in business strategy, development plans and product offerings to respond to the needs of our current, new and potential customers, suppliers and strategic partners; (c) the willingness of communication service providers to invest and improve their data networks; (d) the ability to successfully partner with other companies; (e) increased global competition; (f) technological changes and developments; (g) general risks of the Internet and wireless and wireline telecommunications sectors; and (h) the uncertain economic and political climate in the United States and throughout the rest of the world and the potential that such climate may deteriorate further.

For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the risk factors discussed in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including but not limited to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2002 and subsequently filed reports. All documents also are available through the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov or from Openwave's Web site at www.openwave.com. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this document.

 
Openwave, the Openwave logo and Services OS are trademarks of Openwave Systems Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

For further information:
 
Contact Openwave Worldwide Public Relations

Openwave Systems Inc.
Liz Landis
+1 650 480 -4314
liz.landis@openwave.com

SnowShore Networks
John Gates
+1 978 367 8443
jgates@snowshore.com

SnowShore Networks
Maureen MacGregor/ Pelorus Communications
978-525-3688
maureen@peloruscom.com

  



 
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