C-COR's Subscriber Fulfillment Solution Enables Cabovisao to Be Portu

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    STATE COLLEGE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 2005--C-COR Incorporated (Nasdaq:CCBL), a global provider of interoperable network solutions for the Internet Protocol (IP) era that include access and transport products, software systems, and technical services, today announced that Cabovisao, a top cable provider in Portugal, will implement C-COR's Service Activation Manager (SAM) platform to deliver VoIP, high-speed data, and an expanded number of Pay TV channels to more than 120,000 subscribers. The SAM project is scheduled for completion in July 2005 and positions Cabovisao as the first cable provider to deliver the triple play of voice, video, and data services in Portugal. C-COR's SAM automates the entire subscriber lifecycle -- from equipment qualification to customer support -- and is the only end-to-end service activation management system to include subscriber management, workflow management, and device provisioning capabilities for data, voice, video, and residential gateway. It is a component of C-COR's offering of advanced standards-based applications covering on demand content delivery, customer provisioning, network optimization and health, automated workforce management, and digital ad insertion, all of which help network operators to better deploy and manage entertainment and information services.
    Jorge Patricio, Marketing Manager of Cabovisao, stated, "This project marks the beginning of a fundamental change for Cabovisao. C-COR has developed a system with a totally integrated architecture, supported by a cost effective licensing model that really fits Cabovisao's development and growth strategy. For our subscribers, this will mean access to the highest quality services available and improved service assurance. The new platform is also scaleable and will ensure that we can support the continuing trend of subscriber growth."
    Gerhard Nederlof, Corporate Vice President of Sales for EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Asia), also stated, "Cabovisao will be the first operator in Portugal to offer triple play services, establishing significant potential new revenue streams. This project exemplifies our goal to be a trusted partner with our customers, leveraging our global expertise and interoperable, standards-based solutions to simplify service deployments, lower risks in managing change, and help network operators drive profitable revenues."

    About C-COR's Service Activation Manager (SAM)

    C-COR Solutions, one of C-COR's three complementary business units, develops, markets, deploys, and supports a platform of advanced OSS (Operational Support Systems) applications for network operators that include content management, network assurance, subscriber fulfillment, and workforce management for current HFC networks and next-generation IP-based networks. As a part of the subscriber fulfillment component, C-COR's SAM enables cable operators to automatically manage the service provisioning and revenue collection of a portfolio of on demand services over the cable infrastructure by integrating all layers of the IT infrastructure, including billing, order entry, customer care, and network management. Its open, vendor-independent platform minimizes development requirements, costs, and time to integrate into the existing network infrastructure, and it provides an easy-to-use GUI (Graphical User Interface) tool for operators to model new service offerings, thus facilitating a rapid introduction of new services. With an easily extendable architecture, the SAM allows future services through simple add-on components and a single integrated solution for workflow, device provisioning, and VoIP security.

    About C-COR

    C-COR offers world-class, market-focused business solutions for cable operators, telephone companies, broadcasters, and other private and public sector entities. C-COR's solutions simplify the transition to IP demand-oriented networks by delivering interoperable, modular products in sync with IP network upgrade cycles. The Company's products and services include a suite of software applications that automate the management of content, network, subscribers, and workforce, with more than 200 deployments worldwide; next-generation optical transport products; on demand video systems with implementations in more than 20 countries; and a range of network assurance and technical services that allows operators to design and keep their networks operating at peak performance. Leading network operators through the transition to the on demand IP era, C-COR leverages its dedicated global workforce to deliver solutions for lowering risk, improving profit margins, and effectively managing change. CED Magazine recently named C-COR to its annual "Broadband 50 Companies to Watch." In its February 2005 Research Study, "Telco TV Infrastructure & Service Integrator Opportunities," ABI Research ranked C-COR as the #2 provider of VOD servers in the world based on the criteria of innovation and implementation. C-COR's VOD server offerings were acquired with the purchase of nCUBE in 2004. C-COR's common stock is listed on the Nasdaq National Market (Symbol: CCBL) and is a component of the Russell 2000 Stock Index. For additional information regarding C-COR, visit www.c-cor.com.

    About Cabovisao

    Cabovisao is the second largest cable operator in Portugal and a rapidly growing competitive provider of a complete range of communications and entertainment services through its own advanced broadband networks, with more than 13 thousand kilometers of coaxial cable and fiber-optics on Portugal's mainland.
    Operating since September 1993, Cabovisao currently offers cable television, Pay TV, high-speed Internet, and telephony services to more than 240 thousand residential and 11 thousand business customers. Cabovisao's licenses cover nine regions of Portugal, with a potential of 4.5 million homes, or 90% of the country's homes. The company also offers a range of communications services to small and medium-sized businesses and generates additional revenues from the leasing of surplus capacity and dark fiber on its national fiber-optic backbone.

    Some of the information presented in this announcement constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements represent the Company's judgment regarding future events, and are based on currently available information. Although the Company believes it has a reasonable basis for these forward-looking statements, the Company cannot guarantee their accuracy and actual results may differ materially from those the Company anticipated due to a number of known and unknown uncertainties. Factors which could cause actual results to differ from expectations include, among others, capital spending patterns of the communications industry, changes in regard to significant customers, the demand for network integrity, the trend toward more fiber in the network, the Company's ability to develop new and enhanced products, the Company's ability to provide complete network solutions, continued industry consolidation, the development of competing technology, the global demand for the Company's products and services, and the Company's ability to complete and integrate acquisitions and achieve its strategic objectives. For additional information concerning these and other important factors that may cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from expectations and underlying assumptions, please refer to the reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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CONTACT: C-COR Investor Relations Sally O. Thiel, (814) 231-4402 sthiel@c-cor.com or Media Relations Jo Ann Lehtihet, (814) 231-4438 jlehtihet@c-cor.com

KEYWORD: PENNSYLVANIA PORTUGAL INTERNATIONAL EUROPE INDUSTRY KEYWORD: TELECOMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE INTERNET E-COMMERCE PRODUCT SOURCE: C-COR

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