Two Market Leaders Join Forces to Satisfy Demand for Business-Class and Residential Services

Paris, France and Herndon, VA (United States), April 25, 2007 – InfoVista (Euronext IFV - FR0004031649), the leading service-centric performance management software vendor, announced today that it has expanded its partnership with Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), to include support for Carrier Ethernet implementations for its customers. This partnership allows both companies to leverage each others’ strength and success in offering high-quality, service-centric reporting, fully integrated into the OSS and BSS (Operations and Billing Support Systems) environments of carriers worldwide. Wipro and InfoVista will develop collaborative solutions targeted at service providers.

The market for Carrier Ethernet is growing exponentially, forecast to reach $3 billion in 2009 by Heavy Reading, and service providers are fully engaged in incorporating this technology to deliver a robust alternative to traditional methods of data communications. In addition, service providers also want to offer advanced management and OSS solutions to improve service accuracy and speed of rollout. Carrier Ethernet not only provides the scalability and flexibility needed for business-class services, it is also emerging as the main transport medium for residential services like triple play, which are in high demand.

"Wipro is committed to supporting its service provider clients meet their current and future business challenges,” said Sanjay Gupta, senior vice president, telecom solutions Americas, Wipro Technologies. “InfoVista’s Carrier Ethernet performance management solution enhances Wipro’s solution offering and will help support its customers in migrating to the next generation of service assurance solutions.”

VistaInsight® for Networks is a next-generation performance management solution that enables service providers to adopt new OSS business models around the delivery of differentiated IP connectivity, between any kind of device, with managed services or triple play offerings. The solution is preemptive and proactive, going beyond real-time performance reporting to also provide capacity planning, guaranteeing the uptime of business services.

“InfoVista’s market leadership in providing proactive assured performance solutions for business-grade Carrier Ethernet services makes us an attractive partner for service Providers,” said Ronnie Ray, vice president, corporate marketing and strategic projects for InfoVista. “At this time when Carrier Ethernet is experiencing explosive growth in enterprise and residential services, Wipro is expanding rapidly in the OSS integration space, and we welcome this evolution in our relationship.”

Wipro and InfoVista will be demonstrating InfoVista’s Carrier Ethernet performance management solution, VistaInsight® for Networks, at Billing & OSS World, McCormick Place in Chicago from 24th-27th April 2007. For more information and to view the live demo please visit the Wipro Technologies booth, number 106.