BUSINESS WIRE

September 29, 2004; McLean, Virginia

Isocore today announced that FCC Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy will deliver Opening Speech at the 7th annual International Conference on Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS2004) which will take place October 17- 19, 2004 in Washington, DC. MPLS 2004 is the premier event on the subject of MPLS, Generalized MPLS (GMPLS), and emerging Internet technologies.

FCC Commissioner Abernathy is scheduled to speak at 8:45 am on Monday October 18, and has entitled her talk, "Public Policy Considerations Regarding IP-Enabled Services." Following the Opening Speech and prior to the technical sessions, the Keynote Speech entitled "NTT's Vision for the Future Network" will be presented by Mr. Tadanobu Okada, Vice President and Executive Director of NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories.

MPLS 2004 is sponsored and supported by leaders of the Internet industry from both service provider and vendor community which will showcase their latest IP/MPLS, optical products and services during the three days of conference and exhibits. The conference will be followed by the 5th Public Interoperability Demonstration which will take place at the Isocore Internetworking Lab. More information about the conference, including registration and the technical program, is available at http://www.mpls2004.com.

The exhibitors include ADC (NASDAQ:ADCT), Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA, NYSE: ALA), APC, Avici Systems (NASDAQ:AVCI), Chiaro Networks, CIENA Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), Cisco Systems, Data Connection, Extreme Networks (NASDAQ: EXTR), Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA), Juniper Networks (NASDAQ: JNPR), Laurel Networks, Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU), Marconi, Movaz Networks, MRV Communications (NASDAQ: MRVC), Navtel Communications, NetworkPhysics, NextHop Technologies, NexTone Communications, PIL (NTT, NEC, Fujitsu, Furukawa, Mitsubishi), Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT), Quarry Technologies, Redback Networks (NASDAQ: RBAK), Spirent Communications (NYSE: SPM), Sycamore Networks, and Tellabs.

Media Contact:
Vincent Dean (703) 556-4939 or vdean@isocore.com