Camarillo, CA, August 20, 2003

EdenTree Technologies Launches First Infrastructure Automation Solution for Equipment Networks and Labs

Start-up Solves Huge Productivity Problem

EdenTree® Technologies, Inc., formed to address the inefficiencies in the nearly $90 billion high tech equipment network and lab market, today announced its first in a series of solutions that enable complete infrastructure automation.

Connect_ET is a client/server software application that controls cable switching, allowing laboratory resources to be managed, accessed, switched, reserved, monitored, and controlled "live" from a remote location, resulting in maximized use of resources and a fully-automated lab environment.

Connect_ET delivers a quick Return on Investment (ROI) by providing high tech equipment manufacturers with fully automated solutions that greatly reduce time to market, increase productivity, and save money. Additionally, Connect_ET supports multiple users, is highly secure and reliable, and enables 24x7 use of equipment.

A leading developer of telecommunications signaling solutions, Tekelec uses EdenTree's Connect_ET system in its automated version sanity test bed for its high capacity, multi-protocol EAGLE™ 5 Signaling Application System. "Tekelec recognizes at the highest levels of the organization that laboratory automation can improve efficiency and productivity and can reduce both capital and operational expenditures for the company," said Richard Laurent, manager of test tools and automation development, Tekelec. "Connect_ET is proving to be a valuable component in our test automation strategy."

"Like many telecom departments these days, testing labs personnel have to do more with less, and that means having to cram more testing into more hours of the day with fewer people. Anything that can help speed time to market while also freeing time for personnel to do other testing will be well received by the labs," says Daniel D. Briere, CEO of TeleChoice, Inc.

Founded in May 2002, EdenTree is focused on ideal optimization for the nearly 2000 network equipment labs in the United States. The company has achieved significant milestones over the past year, including closing its A Round funding, assembling a highly skilled senior management team, successful field trials, and securing its first customers.

Based in Camarillo, CA, along the "101 Technology Corridor", EdenTree is initially focused on providing high technology equipment manufacturers with automated solutions for their R&D, Manufacturing, and Sales Demo laboratories, helping them reduce time to market, increase productivity, and save money.  

The company's first product, Connect_ET, allows laboratory resources to be managed, accessed, switched, reserved, monitored, and controlled remotely, resulting in maximized use of resources and a fully-automated lab environment.