Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), a global software innovator delivering context-aware mediation and messaging solutions, today announced that Cable&Wireless Worldwide, a mission critical communications integrator, has selected several products from Openwave's Traffic Mediation suite to help it bring flexible, managed services, with speed and agility to its Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) customers.

The products selected include Openwave® Integra, Openwave® Media Optimizer, Openwave® Web Adapter and Openwave® Web Security. With Openwave's Traffic Mediation solution, Cable&Wireless Worldwide is able to offer major enterprises and retailers carrier-grade solutions to guarantee reliability of their services.

Openwave's Traffic Mediation suite forms a component of C&W Worldwide's FMC solution that converges fixed line telephone, data and mobile networks for its customers, helping them to simplify their telephony systems and end-user experience. All mobile calls made within C&W Worldwide's FMC customer sites will run across an IP network making internal calls free and external calls the same price as those of a fixed line. As people move out of the buildings, calls will seamlessly transfer to a reduced-rate mobile network. With Openwave C&W Worldwide ensures all data transfers on FMC are secure and that traffic is optimized for better resolution and to ensure that its next-generation network continues to cater for the data requirements of all new smartphones.

?The need to manage network traffic is not just exclusive to the operator network, but is a need that large businesses, including retailers, are facing within their own networks,? says Nigel Stevens, Product Director at C&W Worldwide. ?Major retailers have already expressed interest in our managed services for data and telephony networks, which suggests that managed offerings are resonating and other industries are beginning to realise their value. We are delighted to collaborate with Openwave to help bring more of these retail offerings to market.?

?The recent interest in managed services by businesses outside of the carrier world is underscored by C&W Worldwide's recent partnerships,? says Ken Denman, CEO, Openwave. ?To compete in this new untethered, all-IP-based information age, businesses need more control over what's happening in their networks. Solutions such as Integra provide businesses with the flexibility to select the deployment architecture and features that meet their specific needs and rapidly bring a variety of new services to market. Openwave is pleased to provide our world-class Traffic Mediation solutions to C&W Worldwide.?

Openwave Integra orchestrates and mediates a set of mobile internet services that are driven by a rich policy-rules engine, allowing each transaction to be processed based on factors including user profile, device capabilities, content and network type. As traffic increases, Integra can rapidly scale to deploy new mobile data services across converging access networks and devices.

Openwave Media Optimizer is an intelligent, scalable, and policy-aware video delivery solution that enables the reduction of data transmission costs and works to improve the online video experience across any device. Openwave Media Optimizer adds value to networks with intelligent, device- and policy-aware delivery of online video content, reducing costs while increasing effective bandwidth.

Openwave Web Adapter takes content requests from mobile phones for standard web sites and converts the web pages into highly compressed, functional mobile phone-compliant WAP2 pages. Web Adapter allows operators to significantly increase their data revenues by enabling subscribers to access the vast majority of the Web on their mobile phones in a mobile-compatible format.

Openwave Web Security gives mobile operators the power to protect their networks from viruses and security threats, and to protect their subscribers from inappropriate and unwanted content. By implementing multiple defenses against unwanted content, mobile operators can deliver the high quality mobile internet user experience that their subscribers expect while confidently launching new and innovative services.

About Cable & Wireless Worldwide

Cable&Wireless Worldwide (LSE: CW.) aims to be the first-choice provider of mission critical communications. The Company is one of the world's leading critical communication providers delivering a range of high-quality managed voice, data and IP-based services and applications to large corporates, multinational companies, governments, carrier customers and resellers across the UK, Asia Pacific, India, Middle East & Africa, Continental Europe and North America.

In the UK, Cable&Wireless Worldwide owns the country's largest fibre network dedicated to business users of telecoms reaching 20,500km in length, and providing ubiquitous UK access through a combination of fibre, digital, microwave, radio and leased circuits. The network has presence in more than 400 towns and cities in the UK, with 802 unbundled exchanges covering 55% of the population.

On an international scale, Cable&Wireless Worldwide's global next-generation network (NGN) stretches to more than 500,000km, including interests in 69 global cable systems, and provides connectivity to 153 countries. The Company's Multi-Service Platform, an IP-based next-generation platform that operates across the NGN, offers a single environment on which voice and data applications can be converged to drive business efficiencies. The network is uniquely designed with inbuilt resilience and the capability to re-route traffic across diverse paths in the event of failure of one or more paths, particularly at the international level.

With more than 6,300 colleagues globally, Cable&Wireless Worldwide is committed to delivering exceptional customer service and developing long term partnerships with its customers.

To find out more, please visit www.cw.com

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About Openwave

Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV) is a global software innovator delivering context-aware mediation and messaging solutions that enable communication service providers and the broader ecosystem to create and deliver smarter services.

Building on its mobile data heritage, Openwave mobilizes the Internet with predictive solutions fueled by real-time analytics that mediate among all different ecosystem elements, permitting the enhancement of every mode of IP traffic. The result can provide customers with a 360-degree view of their network, devices and services, and enables them to proactively optimize network resources, quickly launch smart mobile services, and provide a contextually relevant user experience.

Openwave is a global company with a blue chip customer base spanning North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Openwave is headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information please visit www.openwave.com.

Forward Looking Statement

This press release contains statements regarding Openwave Systems' expectations of the benefits of Openwave® Integra, Openwave® Media Optimizer, Openwave® Web Adapter and Openwave® Web Security solutions, as well as the expected availability of Openwave® Integra, Openwave® Media Optimizer, Openwave® Web Adapter and Openwave® Web Security solutions. Actual timing of release and performance of Openwave® Integra, Openwave® Media Optimizer, Openwave® Web Adapter and Openwave® Web Security solutions could differ materially as a result of unanticipated factors and events, including technical difficulties or other unforeseen reasons. Further risks inherent in Openwave Systems' business are detailed in the section entitled ?Risk Factors? in Openwave Systems' Quarterly Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2010 (filed September 7, 2010 with the Securities and Exchange Commission).

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