Sphere has
scalability, centralized manageability and support for geographically
dispersed installations built into its DNA. Founded in 1994 Sphere Communications headquarters is
located in Lincolnshire, Illinois.4GB/second SGI NUMAlink (TM) 4 interconnect
accelerates memory access, offering more than three times the performance of
with PCI and PCI-X bus ports and well outpacing the interconnect technologies
supported by companies such as Cray.
The EPC Value Model generates a spreadsheet analysis with
estimates of the costs and benefits over time.

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Sphericall version 4. Sphere's simplified
multi-mode communications for enterprises known as Sphericall,
provides the highest level of reliability, scalability, and simplicity
in the industry.

EPCglobal US Releases ``EPC Value Model'' to Identify Value of RFID Technology Investments

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"As a solution provider that
delivers business process improvement, we were looking for a highly
scalable communications platform that enables Lane to provide
dramatically better solutions for our customers.1 release, Sphere Communications now includes
the Sphere COM Objects library, a communications Application Program
Interface (API) which enables tight integration between
telecommunications and enterprise business applications, such as CRM,
ERP and web-based interfaces for enterprise intranets .

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Sphericall software is being shown
interoperating with a range of endpoints and gateways such as Cisco,
Polycom and Sayson IP Telephones; AudioCodes and Allied Telesyn media
gateways; WiFi-based IP telephony using Spectralink 802.11 IP wireless
IP phones; and WiFi-based PDAs running XTen Pocket PC SIP softphone. In addition to this demonstrated leadership in security and
reliability, Sphericall 4. All rights reserved.

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pistacchio@sgi.----EPCglobal US,
along with the Stanford Global Supply Chain Forum and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology , today announced the release of
the EPC Value Model, a report that includes spreadsheet tools to allow
manufacturers to assess the value of implementing Electronic Product
Code (EPC) technology based on their business conditions.

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Sphere Communications Demonstrates New Features Expands Alliance Support Delivers an Enterprise Telecom API and Further Increases Scalability

The kit
includes full documentation, example web and database applications,
and sample source code.

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spherecom.
"With certain codes that our researchers run, application performance
often boils down to efficiently executing a relatively small set of algorithms
again and again," said Warren J.sgi.

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"We are excited about finishing our rollout of the system."
To deliver orders-of-magnitude performance improvements for customers in a
wide range of markets, the SGI RC100 blade leverages the SGI Altix system's
acclaimed high-bandwidth and shared-memory architecture to create a unique,
cost-efficient solution that overcomes the limitations of other FPGA-based
products. Along with third-party
libraries and tools, SGI provides core services, including a RASC aware
version of Gnu Debugger and a RASC API, to ease the process for users who are
incorporating RASC RC100 blades as a seamless part of their SGI Altix servers.
-- For non-blade architecture systems, a chassis with two blade slots is
available that allows users to install RC100 blades on SGI(R) Altix(R)
3700 Bx2 and Altix(R) 350 servers."
The model, developed as a software spreadsheet, is included in a
49 -page report authored by a team of researchers led by Dr. The report, Assessing the
Value of RFID Technology and EPCglobal Standards for Consumer Goods
Manufacturers, is available starting today for EPCglobal US
subscribers.

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Based on SGI's groundbreaking RASC (Reconfigurable Application -Specific
Computing) technology, the new RC100 blade is designed for customers whose
applications spend most of their time working on a set of specific routines or
algorithms. "SGI's
RASC RC100 Blade solution offers a compelling option for accelerating those
very types of algorithms.

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SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics , Inc. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of
their respective owners.J.

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For pricing and other information, contact SGI or visit
http://www.

NOTE: Silicon Graphics, SGI, Altix and the SGI logo are registered
trademarks, and NUMAlink, RASC, and The Source of Innovation and Discovery are
trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc.
"Previous studies have tried to predict an average return on
investment," explained Dr.
The tool works like this: manufacturers enter company-specific
data such as annual revenue, profit margin, expected business growth
rate , annual cost of capital, and average inventory level as a
percentage of sales.

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"Sphere's approach to open systems combined with their new
telecommunications API allows us to offer significant integration
possibilities for our customers," said Don Couchman, President, Lane
Systems a new Sphere Certified Partner. Florexpo, which beta tested Sphere's new version
4.
The reader is cautioned not to rely unduly on these forward-looking
statements, which are not a guarantee of future performance.

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"Sphere continues to provide organizations an ever-expanding range
of options for their enterprise telecommunications, delivering more
flexibility for budgeting and deployments than ever before," said Todd
Landry, VP of Marketing and Product Management for Sphere
Communications."
Sphericall software runs on industry standard servers, enabling
organizations of all kinds to deploy their enterprise
telecommunications as an application on their existing data network in
the same way as other enterprise -class software is deployed today.
Sphericall is built on a core architecture that provides for highly
distributed deployments across the enterprise, delivering extreme
scalability and the highest reliability.
As part of the new 4. Florexpo, a
west coast mass market flower distributor views technology as a
strategic advantage, but only when the technology can be simplified
for their actual use.

About Sphere Communications

Sphere has provided leadership to the enterprise IP-based PBX
industry for over 10 years and is the premier provider of patented
enterprise telecommunications software technology."
"FPGA technology offers significant computation, I/0 and memory bandwidth
advantages over traditional CPU-only solutions," said Ron Renwick, manager,
configurable computing , SGI.

-- The RC100 blade is powered by dual Xilinx Virtex 4 LX200 FPGAs, 80MB
QDR SRAM (with up to 20GB DDR2 SDRAM optional starting in June) and
dual NUMAlink 4 ports.
Mike Meranda, president of EPCglobal US, said the EPC Value Model
is designed to help EPCglobal US subscribers relieve some of the
uncertainties inherent in planning their implementations. "But our analysis demonstrates that
the benefits are an evolving landscape, dependent on different
scenarios faced by different companies. They also identify key areas they believe EPC
technology can address in their business , including out-of-stocks,
shrinkage or counterfeiting. "By applying the EPC Value Model to our
business , we believe the EPC will allow us to achieve about 20 percent
operational savings per distribution center."
"The more a company hunts for value, the more it will find,"
EPCglobal US President Meranda said.

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Sphere Continues to Expand its Software-based Open System Approach
for Enterprise Telecommunications, Demonstrating a Multitude of
Options at Industry Tradeshow VoiceCon

Sphere Communications announced today it is demonstrating the new
release of its Sphericall enterprise telecommunications software this
week at VoiceCon 2005 Conference + Exhibition.
"Sphere has simply figured out how to make a lot of great features
extremely easy to use," said Karen Pardue, an Executive Assistant at
Florexpo, who is also able to handle their end user moves, adds and
changes based on the simplicity of the Sphericall system. With New SGI RASC RC100 Blade, Key Applications See Performance Boosts
Surpassing 100x Without Cost of CPU Scale-Out

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.

Available as a blade or add-in module for existing Altix servers
SGI RASC technology is available today in two base configurations designed
to meet the broadest customer needs.

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Business Editors/High-Tech Editors
VoiceCon 2005
Booth 531

ORLANDO, Fla.
Sphere Communications , a VoiceCon Gold Sponsor, is demonstrating a
complete, operational enterprise telecommunications system on the expo
show floor in booth #531. "We have at least a dozen different communication
options showing here at VoiceCon, all operating on the proven and
reliable Sphericall enterprise telecommunications software platform
that scales up to 30,000 users across any number of locations. Even a brief introduction to Sphere makes it clear
that their product capabilities were architected in from the
beginning ," said Couchman.

SGI Packs the Power of Supercomputing Into a Single Blade

, is a leader in high-performance
computing.

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Designed for use with award-winning SGI(R) Altix(R) servers, SGI RASC
RC100 blade can be programmed at the customer's site to accelerate
mission-critical, high-performance computing (HPC) applications in oil and gas
exploration, defense and intelligence, bioinformatics, medical imaging, and
broadcast media. Gross, Assistant Professor, Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University in Montreal.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

LAWRENCEVILLE , N. Hau Lee,
co-director of the Stanford Global Supply Chain forum, a research
institute affiliated with Stanford University that studies best
practices in global supply-chain management. The EPC Value Model takes into
account these different scenarios," he said. When combined with
greater retail availability for our products, the return on investment
could exceed 25 percent.

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This new release further expands
the options enterprises have in deploying and customizing IP-based
telephony solutions to fit their exact needs and enable tight
integration with key business processes., Silicon Graphics
(OTC: SGID) today unveiled a groundbreaking solution that packs the power of
dozens of supercomputer nodes into a single blade by leveraging the inherent
parallelism of the industry's most powerful Field-Programmable Gate Array
(FPGA) technology., and can be found on the Web at
http://www.

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To further simplify both enterprise rollouts and ongoing support
of the Sphericall Desktop software , version 4. "While there are many
other testing entities out there, JITC tests are the most stringent .
Any enterprise should recognize this as great validation for the
reliability and security of the Sphericall VoIP system," said Landry. For instance, the 6.com., in the United States and/or other
countries worldwide. "This is the
year of the EPCglobal Network," Meranda said.
"The electronic product code will enable the re-engineering of the
supply chain, creating benefits in efficiency , costs, customer service
and greater product availability," said Dick Cantwell, vice president
of the Gillette Company.

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To date, Sphericall is the only IP PBX system of its kind to pass JITC
testing .

This news release contains forward-looking statements regarding the sale
of products that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those described in such statements. "That means more
companies than ever need this kind of tool to help them assess and
implement how EPC technology will work in their business - and to do
so in the fastest, most cost-effective manner possible.

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1 software, now shipping, offers expanded
support for additional enterprise communications end points as well as
numerous new features and enhancements , including a communications API
for enterprise software integration.
"The difference between Sphere 's bottom-up design approach
compared to a more typical, patched, evolutionary approach cannot be
over-emphasized. Such risks and
uncertainties include financial and contractual commitments, the installation
and performance of hardware and software, reliance on performance of third-
party partners, timely delivery of the system, acceptance of the system by the
customer, and other risks detailed from time to time in the company's most
recent SEC reports.

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By accelerating those routines , RASC technology can dramatically
improve the performance of the overall application.
The EPC Value Model was developed by EPCglobal US along with nine
global consumer products manufacturers , three international retailers
and two highly acclaimed academic institutions."
The following EPCglobal US subscribers were among those who
allowed their data and experiences to be used in the formulation of
the EPC Value Model: Gillette, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson + Johnson,
Kimberly-Clark , and Yuen Foong Yu a Taiwan's paper-making company.

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1 further extends its leadership in
scalability with support for up to 30,000 end points on a single
system. For more information please see the
Sphere Communications web site at www. With the RC100 blade, the true power of SGI Altix and
Xilinx Virtex 4 FPGA technology can be laser-focused on solving a large set of
algorithmic-intensive applications -all resulting in tremendous cost benefits
to SGI customers. The RC100 blade is plug-and-play installable on
SGI(R) Altix(R) 4000 servers. SGI helps customers solve their computing challenges, whether it's
sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil more efficiently, studying
global climate , providing technologies for homeland security and defense,
enabling the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, or helping
enterprises manage large data.com
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Certified for use by the Department of Defense for its major
initiatives in voice-over-IP, Sphericall software has passed the
extremely rigorous military testing environment operated by the DoD's
Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC). With offices worldwide, the company is
headquartered in Mountain View, Calif . "The process savings and the
supply chain visibility only begin after implementing EPC technology ,
so the earlier you get started, the earlier you'll start to see a
return.

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1, is now rolling out this version across their entire enterprise. The
efficiency it provides in our communications is amazing," said Pardue.1 supports Microsoft
Software Installer (MSI) and Group Policy which ensures Sphericall can
continue to be deployed and managed as any other enterprise-class
software. With SGI RASC, we can also fully leverage the Altix
platform's shared-memory architecture, which is crucial for working with large
databases.com/products/rasc .

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All logos and markings are trademarks of the representative
companies. "HPC users now can take advantage of an FPGA
solution built on the award-winning SGI Altix platform that has revolutionized
64-bit Linux computing.sgi. The spreadsheet tools,
intended for use by large- and medium-sized consumer-products
manufacturers, accept unique variables and assess the value of
implementing EPC technology at the case and pallet level. Lee.

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The new SGI(R) RASC(TM) RC100 computation blade, built with
dual Xilinx Virtex(TM) 4 FPGAs, can accelerate the performance of many HPC
applications by orders of magnitude over conventional systems at a far lower
cost and much smaller footprint. EPC
technology, which leverages radio frequency identification (RFID), is
being deployed today across the supply chains of many industries
around the world and provides real-time, automatic tracking of goods
in the global supply chain .
Retailers CVS, Metro and Wal-Mart also participated.

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A robust RASC solution stack incorporates fully integrated third-party
high-level language (HLL) development tools, including Handel-C and DK Design
Suite from Celoxica and Mitrion-C from Mitrionics, Inc.