"This industry collaboration between global carriers and equipment and
application vendors is a significant milestone toward the global offering of
IPv6 services," said MCI Enterprise Network Engineering Director Tom Bechly.
France Telecom is the second-largest wireless operator and Internet access
provider in Europe, and a world leader in telecommunications solutions for
multinational corporations. Taking place across the U.org/. "The flexible authentication
framework makes the new version particularly useful in key areas, such
as telecommunications and mobile computing .interpeak. (Nasdaq:IWOV) and co-founded Match.

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IKEv2 offers a number of performance
improvements over the original version, including shorter negotiation
times due to a reduction in number of messages and additional
integrity verifications.
Howes joins the Encentuate board with more than 15 years of technology
and executive management experience.com) provides enterprise access
security solutions that help enterprises simplify, strengthen and
track access to their digital assets and physical infrastructure.

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With one of the most expansive global
IP backbones and wholly-owned data networks, MCI develops the converged
communications products and services that are the foundation for commerce and
communications in today's market. He
holds a Ph.

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to Durham, NH.
The applications include the ePresentation suite of multimedia communications
software, developed by France Telecom R+D.)
MCI created the conformance test plans and executed the associated tests
which reflected key IPv6 attributes of interest to the Internet community. Moonv6 is the largest permanently deployed multi-vendor IPv6
network with a footprint extending from New Hampshire to California.

About France Telecom
France Telecom is one of the world's leading telecommunications carriers . at multiple locations, the
Moonv6 network is the largest permanently deployed multi-vendor IPv6 test
network in the world.
"The deployment of IKEv2 will enable the incorporation of IPsec
and IKE into countless new products," commented Roger Boden, chief
technology officer at Interpeak. Alternatively , IKE may be secured as part of the
stand-alone IPsec product.

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FOSTER CITY, Calif. He is currently one of the leaders of an effort
to create the Data Center Markup Language (DCML), a new OASIS standard
aimed at utility computing and automation .

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, Known as
the next-generation Internet protocol, IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) has
been proven viable for international business and distance-learning video
applications in joint testing by MCI, Inc. France Telecom
R+D provided unicast and multicast applications that ran across the network .
These attributes included IPv4-to-IPv6 transition methods, such as Generic
Routing Encapsulation overlay and IPv6 islands over a MultiProtocol Label
Switching (MPLS) core.
The tests performed by MCI also included evaluation of basic protocol
functionality concerning IPv6 extensions to the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP),
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System
(IS-IS) protocol in a dual stack IPv4/IPv6 environment and in a native IPv6
environment . MCI engineers executed rigorous test scenarios
to assess the scalability, stability and convergence properties of the IPv6
protocols and equipment in the Moonv6 experimental network. While version 2 does not operate with
version 1, the two share some key header format requirements, which
allow both versions to run over the same ports. For more information
about Interpeak's IKE, please visit www.
"I have always admired individuals who have created standards that
are adopted and in use worldwide," said Peng T.

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The tests were performed across multi-vendor platforms for
interoperability validation. For more information, visit the organization's Web site
at http://www.nav6tf."
Interpeak 's support for IKEv1 and IKEv2 is integrated with
Interpeak's IPsec module for its dual-mode IPv4 /v6 networking stacks,
IPNET and IPLITE.

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Experts believe IPv6 will gradually replace IPv4, with the two protocols
co-existing for a number of years during the transition.com .

Support for both versions of IKE ensures that Interpeak's networking
and security solutions are compatible with both existing and new
applications. Interpeak's products
include various drop -in solutions for networking applications, such as
gateways, network storage, edge routers, mobile phones, home access
devices, wireless networks, digital media, and others.

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"To my knowledge , this is the first wide-area commercial multimedia
testing on IPv6 with true multicast routing at its core," said Timothy
Winters, lead UNH-IOL research and test engineer on the project.
In January, MCI and UNH-IOL announced that MCI had connected the Moonv6
network to the commercial Internet backbone allowing direct connections to the
test bed. Test
solutions created at the UNH-IOL offer a set of methods to increase
interoperability through protocol operations, signaling, point-to-point and
multi-system scenarios. As IPsec is mandated
with IPv6, new products are increasingly likely to include IPsec and
IKE.com

About Interpeak

Interpeak provides state-of-the-art networking solutions
specifically designed for embedded systems. He has co-authored two books on directories and has
written or co-written over 20 Internet Request For Comments (RFCs).

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For more information , go to:
http://www.

About the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory
Established in 1988, the University of New Hampshire InterOperability
Laboratory (UNH-IOL ) is a non-profit organization housed in 32,000 + square
feet of laboratory space offering comprehensive interoperability and
conformance-based testing in 19 data communication technologies., innovator of enterprise access security solutions that help
enterprises simplify, strengthen and track access to their digital
assets and physical infrastructure, announced today the addition of
Tim Howes to the Encentuate Business and Technology Advisory Board."

About Encentuate

Encentuate (www.

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Panasonic provided IPv6 Web-enabled
video cameras at both ends of the network for live video communications.
Through its major international brands, including Orange, Wanadoo, Equant and
GlobeCast, France Telecom provides businesses, consumers and other carriers
with a complete portfolio of solutions that spans local, long-distance and
international telephony , wireless, Internet, multimedia, data, broadcast.S.

Interpeak's Product Fleet Supports IKE Version 2; Interpeak Continues to Add to Its IPv6 Arsenal

Its
versatility allows IPsec to help create secure environments in a broad
range of settings and applications. The company's
embedded networking and security software is currently used in
thousands of applications across the globe. Tim
also served as Chief Technology Officer of Netscape's Server Products
division and was Chief Architect of several Netscape server products
Howes is a former member of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF)'s Internet Architecture Board and former co-chair of several
IETF working groups.

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IPv6 is
also expected to add several improvements, such as enhanced network routing,
network auto-configuration and stronger security, while allowing for better
mobility support and more easily enabling renumbering .11b wireless environment.iol.

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The tests, which represent the groundwork for future commercial IPv6
communications services, linked the North American IPv6 Task Force's Moonv6
network to MCI 's global IP backbone via MCI's MAE(R) Extended Services
infrastructure, from San Jose, Calif."
As testing for IPv6 moves outside the laboratory environment, many
companies are joining forces to test this real-world scenario. and Lucent Technologies in Malvern, PA.
In addition to stateful and stateless DHCPv6 services, Lucent Technologies
also provided stateful and stateless DHCPv6 clients for various operating
systems to facilitate the testing.

About MCI, Inc.
For more information about Interpeak's networking and security
products, please visit www.

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Like other Interpeak products , IKE runs on
all major real-time operating systems (RTOSs), including Linux,
INTEGRITY, OSE, VxWorks , Nucleus, and ITRON.

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interpeak.D. "I
look forward to applying my knowledge and background to help
Encentuate continue to innovate and provide real solutions to the
growing need for strong digital identity.

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About Moonv6
The Moonv6 project is a global effort led by the North American IPv6 Task
Force that includes industry leaders, the UNH-IOL, Internet2 and various U." This
document replaces RFCs 2407, 2408, and 2409 and will likely be issued
as an RFC in Spring 2005. Howes is known worldwide as the co-inventor of LDAP
(Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), the Internet standard for
directories., the leading provider of IT
Automation software, based in Sunnyvale, California .

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and ASHBURN, Va. (Nasdaq: MCIP), France Telecom
Research and Development, the University of New Hampshire-InterOperability
Laboratory (UNH-IOL) and Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU).
Lucent Technologies contributed the Domain Name Server (DNS)
infrastructure which provided name resolution services for all the major
Moonv6 locations for this round of testing at the UNH in New Hampshire , MCI in
San Jose, Calif. Additionally, MCI
engineers tested IPv6 applications and services such as DNS, Web servers, Web
browsers, videoconferencing using multicast, and IPv6 transport over an IEEE
802.
MCI, Inc.
The IETF describes the new version of IKE in its Internet-Draft of
September 23, 2004, "Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) Protocol.

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MCI and France Telecom R+D Demonstrate Multicast Video Application Over Multi-vendor Moonv6 IPv6 Network

"With our partners, MCI is leading the way for the commercial implementation
of IPv6 and all the benefits that it brings to our customers. The
UNH-IOL administers testing on Moonv6 for service providers and network
equipment companies both privately and in large-scale interoperability test
events.mci.edu ., where
he worked on technology strategy, acquisitions and investments. "Tim is one such individual, and we want to leverage
Tim's incredible technological expertise and experience to help us
pioneer new standards in the area of identity management and help
develop Encentuate into a great company.com.

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Successful Multicast Video Testing with the University of New Hampshire-
InterOperability Lab Builds Foundation for IPv6 Commercial Service

DURHAM, N.
"Carrier-class testing on this scale uncovers possible issues and nuisances
that can be corrected to help clear the way for the commercial deployment of
IPv6 in North America. Support for Dynamic Domain Name Server
Updates was available in Lucent Technologies' DHCPv6 server and clients and
DNS server to facilitate peer-to-peer applications. (Nasdaq: MCIP) is a leading global communications provider,
delivering innovative, cost-effective , advanced communications connectivity to
businesses, governments and consumers.S. Originally
described in the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) RFC 2409,
IKE is the key exchange protocol used in IPsec to perform mutual
authentication and establish and maintain security associations.

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H. (A stateful protocol
maintains information about a user's session while a stateless one does not. For more information , go to
http://www. For more information, visit the UNH-IOL website at:
http://www. Prior to Opsware ,
Howes was Vice President of Technology for America Online, Inc. Its
customers span a range of industries, including healthcare,
biotechnology, government and financial services.

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France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) is listed on the Paris
and New York stock exchanges. Ong, founder and CEO
of Encentuate ."
Prior to his work at Netscape, Howes was a researcher and National
Science Foundation Project Director at the University of Michigan.
"Encentuate is proving its leadership in providing innovative
security solutions for enterprise access security," said Howes.

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The MCI backbone
provided the essential transport and its MAE West facility hosted the IPv6
application servers from France Telecom R+D, Lucent Technologies and
Panasonic."
IPv6 is addressing limitations of IPv4, the current language of the
Internet, such as limited IP address space needed for the growing number of
devices and private IP-enabled networks connecting to the Internet.
government agencies. Also, IKEv2 leverages the extensible
authentication protocol in order to significantly extend
authentication capabilities .
IPsec continues to gain momentum across the embedded industry.com

----Encentuate,
Inc . in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

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Its customers span the
telecommunications and data communications markets. Headquartered in
Stockholm, Sweden, Interpeak operates through a global network of
distribution channels and has its own sales and field application
force dispersed in strategic locations worldwide, including the USA,
Japan, and Europe.

Encentuate Adds Industry Veteran Tim Howes to Business and Technology Advisory Board

Ong, who previously founded
Interwoven, Inc .

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Lucent Technologies
also provided DNS and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6 )
services.

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LEESBURG, Va. + STOCKHOLM, Sweden--- -Interpeak, a pioneer of Internet and security protocol solutions
for embedded systems, today announced that its Internet Key Exchange
(IKE) product supports both versions 1 and 2 of IKE. Many product developers tout the
fact that IPsec's security functions at the network level, thus making
it transparent, cost effective, and standardized. He is co-founder and Chief
Technology Officer of Opsware Inc.
Encentuate was founded by Peng T.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Encentuate has offices
across North America, in the United Kingdom and Singapore.