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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 14, 1996
TCSI Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Nevada 0-19377 68-0140975
(State of incorporation) (Commission (IRS Employer
File Number) Identification No.)
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, California 94704
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (510) 649-3700
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Item 5. Other Events.
On May 14, 1996, TCSI Corporation issued a press release, a copy of
which is filed herewith as Exhibit 28.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
TCSI Corporation
By: /s/Paul A. Farmer
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Paul A. Farmer
Chief Financial Officer
Date: May 14, 1996
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
28. Press Release, dated May 14, 1996
TCSI Announces Second Multi-Million Dollar Contract with
Telstra--Austalia's Leading Telecommunications Provider
Telstra Builds on the Power, Openness, and Scalability of OSP 4.0
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For additional information contact:
TCSI Corporation Telstra Corporation Ltd.
Press Inquiries: Press Inquiries:
Susan Trainer - (510) 837-5503 John Veitch - +61 3 9 634 0943
Financial Inquiries:
Leigh Salvo - (510) 649-3800
TCSI ANNOUNCES SECOND MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT WITH
TELSTRA--AUSTRALIA'S LEADING TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDER
Telstra Builds on the Power, Openness, and Scalability of OSP 4.0
BERKELEY, California -- May 14, 1996 - TCSI Corporation (Nasdaq: TCSI), a
global provider of software to the Telecom industry, announced today that
Telstra Corporation Ltd., Australia's national telecommunications company, is
planning to deploy a version of its new, integrated fault management system
that uses TCSI's Object Services Package (OSP) 4.0 software. This contract
builds on an agreement TCSI recently signed with Telstra to deploy another
OSP-based network management system. The new fault management system,
scheduled for field trial in the third quarter of 1996, will benchmark and
validate the scalability and performance of the underlying OSP system and
support the feasibility of deploying such a system on a large scale at the
national level. The application will manage several hundred thousand objects,
handle more than 30,000 alarms per hour, connect over a hundred UNIX clients,
automating and integrating fault management functions for Telstra. The
initial phase of the contract, now underway, is valued at $2 million to TCSI.
The system, known as the Plant Trouble Management Field Trial System (PTM-
FTS), incorporates TCSI's OSP 4.0, an industrial-strength distributed object
development and run-time environment and Network Management Functional Modules
(NMFM). The initial installation, being deployed in two regions of Australia,
involves managing the alarm and trouble ticket activities of transmission and
switching elements. Network operators will be able to respond more quickly to
potential problems, improving Telstra's quality of service.
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"TCSI is in a unique position to provide object-oriented development platforms
and professional services with expertise in the Telecom domain," said John
Veitch, PTM development manager, Telstra, Melbourne, Australia. "As such,
TCSI has developed a very good understanding of our operational system
requirements and we are well on our way to specifying and developing the PTM-
FTS system that will meet our needs."
"Telstra's strategic plans to re-architect its network management system
called for it to invest in highly scalable, open, and powerful object
technology," said Ram Banin, executive vice president and general manager of
TCSI's Object Software Group. "We are gratified that Australia's premier
telecom provider selected OSP and TCSI's services to help it achieve those
plans."
About The PTM-FTS
At the heart of the PTM-FTS are distributed, scalable object servers that
consist of millions of managed objects for the Telstra system. Object servers
are responsible for configuration management, fault management (alarm and
trouble ticket management), report management, and system management. OSP
also provides the foundation that enables object servers to communicate with
GUI-based, UNIX front-end workstations.
About TCSI Corporation's Products
TCSI provides telecommunication management applications that are built upon
the Company's flagship software product, Object Services Package (OSP). OSP
is a highly scalable industrial-strength distributed object development and
runtime environment for large, object-oriented client/server systems. Major
communications corporations worldwide use OSP to design, implement, and deploy
mission-critical applications for management and operations support systems.
The product provides an integrated environment for deploying graphical user
interfaces (X11/Motif and Windows), object services (distributed object
management and CORBA), and communications gateways (SNMP, CMIP, and
proprietary). OSP also provides persistent data storage in relational
databases from Informix Software, Inc., Oracle Corporation, and Sybase, Inc.
TCSI Corporation
TCSI Corporation provides object-oriented software products, services, and
solutions to the Telecom industry worldwide. Service providers and equipment
manufacturers deploy TCSI's software to enable a range of customer services,
automated processes, and the management of broadband, wireless, and
intelligent networks. Based in Northern California, TCSI has offices in North
America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. The Company reported revenues of $55.4
million in 1995 and $18.5 million in the first quarter of 1996.
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