Expansion aimed at accommodating growth in demand for the 3200 multiservice message router

Ottawa, Canada, October 5, 2004 – Solace Systems, the leader in carrier-scale multiservice message routing, announced the expansion of its Canadian operations with the opening of a company office in Toronto, Ontario. The new field office will house sales, marketing, and support staff and focus on North America’s leading-edge businesses and telecommunications service providers.

"Since releasing our flagship product in April 2004, Solace has been leading the network-resident XML services trend and helping a rapidly growing list of customers exploit normalized content and application-oriented networking." said Craig Betts, president and CEO of Solace Systems. "Expansion to Toronto allows us to capitalize on our product’s unique position in the marketplace and strengthens our ability to serve some of the world’s most demanding customers with resilient, scalable, content networking solutions."

The Toronto office is located in the Exchange Tower, 130 King Street West, Suite 1800, Toronto, Ontario, M5X 1E3. Crispin Clarke, VP of Sales at Solace Systems, will lead the office. He can be reached at (416) 865-3364.

Opening the Toronto office is a logical next step for Solace, and allows us to better serve the needs of the marketplace." said Crispin Clarke. "Many of our customers have a significant presence in Canada’s economic capital and it was important for us to be close to ensure customer satisfaction. Proximity to other large centers of commerce in the Northeast US also provided Solace with reason to locate the office in Toronto."

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