Statement of Direction for NonStop Integrity Servers

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Statement of Direction for NonStop Integrity
Servers

• Scalable, Available, Reliable
• Carrier-Grade UNIX systems

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Compaqs UNIX Positioning

• Leadership Products Addressing Customers Needs
• Compaq Tru64 UNIX for the Enterprise
• Strategic 64-bit Enterprise platform
• Alpha and IA-64
• Compaqs NonStop Integrity Systems for
  Carrier-Grade
• Integrity S-series Leading Carrier-Grade, FT
  UNIX for Telecom
• Integrity XC ProLiant-based, Carrier-Grade
  UnixWare clustered systems
• SCO UNIX for SMB/replicated sites
• OpenServer UnixWare
• Compaq holds 1 market share
• Linux available for both ProLiant and
  AlphaServers

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NonStop Integrity Servers Carrier-Grade Computer
Systems for Communications
Continuous availability
Integrity S-series
Integrity XC-series

• 99.999 to 99.9999 Availability
• Configurable fault-tolerant hardware
• NonStop-UX
• Upgradable SMP configuration
• ServerNet inside

• 99.99 to 99.999 Availability
• Clustered ProLiant servers
• NonStop Clusters
• Full single system image
• ServerNet inside

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NonStop Integrity Servers Statement of Direction

• Compaq is strongly committed to the Integrity XC
• Follow-on enhancements underway.
• Commitment to 32-bit architectures.
• Will follow Compaq ProLiant Evolution.
• UnixWare 7 Release of NonStop Clusters in 1999
• Presentation focus - Integrity S-Series future

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Carrier-Grade Definition
DifferentiationThe IntegrityS-Series is the
leading carrier-grade Product!

• What is Carrier-Grade?
• Continuous availability
• High availability
• Incremental growth
• Thread support/escalation support
• Joint development
• 3-4 year committed roadmaps
• 5-10 year support commitments
• Carrier-grade quality programs

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Carrier-Grade Trends
DifferentiationWhat is driving carrier-grade
opportunities?

• Network equipment providers are moving from
  building proprietary systems to buying computers
  for their networks
• 80 of market still proprietary
• Want to take advantage of enterprise computers
  price/ performance
• Focus on value-add/applications
• Explosion of Enhanced Network Services (ENS)
• Prepaid, voice-activated, IP telephony, etc.
• Integrated voice and data networks

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Compaq Carrier-Grade Answers
DifferentiationCompaq is the carrier-grade
telecom platform supplier

• Rich set of proven technologies
• Partnering mentality
• Custom development capability
• Streams support
• 24x365 support model
• Telco Deployment product lifecycle
• Commitment to quality
• Carrier-grade track record
• Focused on Telco requirements

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Compaq Carrier-Grade Answers

• Proven expertise in communications
• technology
• NEBS level 3
• Fault tolerance
• Hardware
• Operating system
• Application
• System level availability modeling
• ServerNet
• Highly-scalable, fault-tolerant System Area
  Network
• Communications protocols
• SS7
• Token ring
• Frame relay

DifferentiationCarrier-grade represents
understanding and delivering continuous
availability

• X.25
• ATM

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Compaq Carrier-Grade Answers

• Focused teams assigned to specific engagements
• Perform development, integration, test and
  release
• Joint development as needed
• Strategic quality initiatives

DifferentiationCarrier-grade represents a
partnering mentality
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Integrity S-Series Servers Our Carrier-Grade
Heritage
DifferentiationCarrier-grade represents a
proven track record

• Tandem in fault-tolerant business since 1970s
• First UNIX hardware fault tolerant platform in
  1990
• Integrity Systems are 1 in Market Share for UNIX
  FT Telco Platforms!
• Motorola, Lucent, Ericsson, .
• Leveraging NonStop, Carrier-Grade Heritage with
  Compaq Economics

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Integrity S-Series Servers Competitive
Positioning
non carrier-gradeenterprise computers
Compaqs carrier-grade Integrity S-Series Systems
are best able to deliver on carrier-grade
requirements
Compaq today99.999 to 99.9999 system
availability
Future enhancements increase system availability
99.9 systemavailability

• Continuous availability
• Thread support
• Joint development
• Escalation support
• Start small, grow incrementally

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Compaqs Competitive Advantages

• Dedicated resources
• Dedicated Telco RD
• Proven installed base
• Custom support
• Custom development
• SEI Level II certified
• Plans for SEI Level III
• RQMS compliant
• Bellcore standard
• Product quality management

• Product design driven by carrier-grade
  requirements
• Performance modeling based on customer
  requirements
• Technology partnership mentality
• Proven 99.999 to 99.9999 system availability
• Carrier-grade business model

DifferentiationOnly Compaq offers all of these
carrier-grade capabilities!
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Compaqs Carrier-Grade Strategy

• Continue to push the availability and performance
  bar higher while improving price/performance
  levels for Class 5 and Class 6 platforms
• Address carrier-grade requirements for
  traditional CO, NEBS level 3 platforms, while
  offering cost-competitive alternatives for
  emerging CLEC and wireless carriers
• Address carriers need to deliver new products
  and services quickly with faster ROI and lower
  TCO
• Differentiate by delivering more value with
  partnering mentality, joint development.

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Integrity S-Series Servers Compaq success with
Integrity S4000
DifferentiationCarrier-grade represents a
proven track record

• The carrier-grade, NonStop Integrity S4000
  introduced in late 1995
• Became the 1 market leader in fault tolerant
  UNIX systems
• First ServerNet SAN-based system
• In production with strategic telco customers
  worldwide.

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Integrity S-Series Servers Introducing the
Integrity S5000

• Performance Improvements
• S5000 is a new processor architecture
• MIPS R10K brings new price/performance level to
  UNIX FT
• Integrity S5000 Series is price/performance
  leader for UNIX fault tolerant systems
• SMP
• Up to 100 price/performance improvement compared
  to Integrity S4000 Systems
• S4000 continues to provide entry price point and
  can be upgraded to S5000 NonStop Integrity
  S-Series.

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Integrity Statement of Direction Summary

• Integrity Delivers on Carrier-Grade Requirements
• NonStop Integrity S-series servers
• Extremely high availability (99.999 - 99.9999
  uptime)
• Deployed by strategic customers
• Industry Leading Fault Tolerant Platforms
• NonStop Integrity S5000 for new levels of price /
  performance.
• NonStop Integrity XC tracks ProLiant evolution
  and UnixWare 7

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