Press Release
Cisco Systems Names TANDBERG
Regional AVVID Partner of the Year

14th April 2003

TANDBERG, a global provider of collaborative communication solutions, today announced that it has been selected for Cisco Systems' Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data (AVVID) Partner of the Year Award for the UK and Ireland. TANDBERG accepts this prestigious award at the Cisco Partner Summit 2003, April 14-17, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Summit provides Cisco partners with a forum to share accomplishments and challenges. TANDBERG will demonstrate its latest collaborative communication solutions at the event.

"TANDBERG has aligned itself with Cisco to conduct extensive training and joint channel mapping in EMEA," said Duncan Mitchell, vice president and general manager of Cisco UK and Ireland. "TANDBERG offered full and free access to end users and invited Cisco to address the entire EMEA and AP sales force at the TANDBERG sales kick-off. This award recognizes TANDBERG for their tremendous work as our partner."

By investing in the Cisco AVVID architecture, TANDBERG is qualified to deliver an end-to-end fully compatible and integrated internetworking solution to maximize the productivity and profitability of its customer base. By leveraging the Cisco IOS® functionality, TANDBERG can deliver a flexible, scalable and open standard to help customers quickly adopt new solutions.

"We have been a Cisco AVVID partner for just over a year, and we are delighted to be selected for this award," said Andrew Miller, vice chairman and CEO of TANDBERG. "We continue to cement our working relationship with Cisco as the two companies pursue the widespread adoption of IP and the convergence of voice, video and data on a network."
For more information, please visit www.ciscoawards.com/partnersummit2003

About TANDBERG
TANDBERG is a leading global provider of collaborative communication solutions. The Company designs, develops and markets systems and software for video, voice and data. The TANDBERG Architecture for the Collaborative-Communications Enterprise (ACE) - the industry's first solution architecture that embraces open standards, promotes multi-vendor interoperability, and leverages existing network infrastructure - is a framework for unifying the many essential components required to build an integrated voice, video and data solution. This includes user endpoints, network platforms, distributed common communication software, application management software and value-added services. The core of ACE is the TANDBERG Management Suite (TMS) - the common software platform that manages components from multiple vendors in a single system. The Company provides sales, support and value-added services in more than 90 countries worldwide. TANDBERG has dual headquarters in New York and Norway, and sales and marketing offices in Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Spain and the United Kingdom. TANDBERG is publicly traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker TAA.