BOSTON -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), the market share leader in integrated circuits for communications systems, today announced the addition of three new design services companies in support of the C-5e Network Processor (NP) and the Q-5 Traffic Management Coprocessor (TMC). (See C-5e NP and Q-5 TMC news release issued 10/22/01 at www.motorola.com/smartnetworks/news ). Joining Motorola's Smart Networks Alliance are HCL Technologies, Tality Corporation, and Viridien Technologies, all of whom are at work on current C-5 NP designs. Equipment vendors can gain extensive time-to-market advantages by leveraging the expertise of design services vendors, whether in hardware design, software design, or more complete systems design. One such company, Threshold Networks, is making use of Motorola's Smart Networks Alliance to build their Secure Bandwidth Mediation Switch, RAZZO, based on Motorola's C-5 NP silicon and MPC7450 host processor. "Using the proven joint solutions from Motorola and its alliances, we are able to gain time-to-market advantages, not to mention ease our development burden," stated Joe Blanchard, CTO for Threshold Networks. "We are currently engaged with HCL Technologies for engineering design services and Wind River Systems for the seamless integration of Tornado for Managed Switches with the C-5 NP environment. The comprehensive partner integration with the C-5 NP has allowed us to do more development with less in-house effort."Motorola Inc.