2008-01-02

Juniper Networks Selects Birdstep for Steel-Belted Radius

Seattle - January 2, 2008 - Birdstep Technology, Inc. (OSE: BIRD) which offers state-of-the-art embedded database technologies, today announced that Juniper Networks, developer of carrier-class and enterprise routers and security platforms, has selected Birdstep's RDM Embedded database solution to deliver proven reliability and high-performance data management to their Steel-Belted Radius (SBR) Product.

Juniper will use RDM Embedded to manage critical user authentication and access policy management information. "When dealing with heavy traffic loads in such a secure application environment, a solid, secure and performance oriented database solution is a must," comments Kenneth Culbert, Engineering Manager for SBR. "We chose Birdstep because we are confident that their RDM Embedded product will provide us with the high-performance throughput and stable data management we require."

"We have been successfully providing RDM Embedded as a highly reliable real-time data management solution to Major Networking and Telecom companies for many years now. Our relationship with Juniper continues to progress and we look forward to helping them provide products that excel in such a competitive marketplace," said Duncan Bates, Vice President of Product Management.

About The Raima Database Manager Family
Raima Inc. released the first version of the Raima embedded database in 1984. Since then the family has grown into two successful embedded database products. RDM Embedded pioneered the embedded market space under the name dbVista. Building on the success of RDM Embedded, Raima released the product in a client/server configuration under the name Velocis, now called RDM Server. Please find free SDK downloads of the RDM Products at www.raima.com/downloads.

About Raima Inc.
Raima Inc. is a leading provider of high-performance, real-time, always on, embedded databases for both in-memory database usage and persistent storage devices. Raima Database Managers are found in everything from low cost real-time applications to high performance, high-availability application. With over 20 000 developers enjoying the flexibility of these COTS databases, the products are currently successfully deployed in over 25 million systems.

For further press information please contact Paul Johnson at Raima Inc.:
Tel: (206) 748-5300
Email: marketing@raima.com
Website: www.raima.com