PRESS RELEASE

Amadeus North America Selects Encore Networks for Its National Travel Reservation Network Migration

Dulles, VA. April 3, 2003 – Encore Networks today announced that it has signed an agreement and commenced delivery of its Virtual Private Network (VPN) secure router, the BANDIT™, to Amadeus North America, the U.S.-based operations of the leading global distribution system (GDS) and technology provider to the world's travel and tourism industries. The agreement, representing the largest BANDIT™ contract to date, further solidifies Encore's rapid expansion into the global VPN hardware market. The agreement allows Amadeus to purchase the BANDIT™ product line globally under the same terms and conditions.

Through the Amadeus reservation system — which offers more than 95 percent of the world's scheduled airline seats — travel agencies and airline offices can book reservations with 467 airlines. The network also provides access to 61,560 hotels, 48 car rental companies serving 24,400 locations, and other provider groups including ferry, rail, cruise, and tour operators. Now, with Encore's BANDIT™ VPN product line, the Amadeus network serving the U.S. and Canada will provide a secure IP environment to its clients to conduct their business transactions. Amadeus chose the BANDIT™ product line to facilitate the conversion of legacy protocols to its IP network. Its rich feature set allows for a dramatically reduced host network port count, ease of installation and management, and comprehensive IPsec VPN capabilities.

"The feedback on the BANDIT's performance has been extremely positive," stated Lincoln Rodon, Amadeus Senior Vice President of Information Technology. "In addition to connecting to our host network, travel agents can now also communicate with other travel-related databases, receive graphics, and securely connect to public online services over the Internet."

The BANDIT™ product line is at the core of Encore's strategy for migrating legacy protocols to a secure standards-based IP VPN infrastructure. It is a versatile VPN gateway that can originate, switch, multiplex, and terminate IPsec tunnels at the same time. A built-in hardware accelerator that handles security encryption, IP routing, and dynamic firewall protection enables the BANDIT™ to provide excellent overall performance and throughput, and its dial backup capability protects against network outages. The use of private IP addresses at customers' locations can be preserved through the built-in support of Network Address Translation (NAT) and Private Address Translation (PrAT). This significantly eases the provisioning of large-scale rollouts of VPN services.

"We are excited to be working with Amadeus as they move forward in upgrading their network," said Peter Madsen, President of Encore Networks. "The Amadeus network is one of the largest private networks ever deployed, and this is a great opportunity to show how the BANDIT's encryption, firewall, and network management capabilities excel, both in terms of performance and cost savings, in a network of this size."

About Encore Networks
Encore Networks www.encorenetworks.com is a leading developer of integrated, broadband IP+Legacy™ VPN and security platforms, signaling protocol conversion, and converged voice and data solutions for both carriers and enterprises. Encore provides advanced security solutions that include encryption, stateful inspection IP VPNs, support of legacy data protocols and built-in dial backup and fail-over capabilities. Encore’s innovative signaling and data solutions include signaling conversion for voice migration from circuit to packet, a broad line of IADs, VPN router CPE and host products to transform legacy data networks to broadband IP infrastructure.

About Amadeus Global Travel Distribution (MAD: AMS)
Amadeus, with its North American operations in Miami, Florida, is the leading global distribution system (GDS) and technology provider, serving the marketing, sales and distribution needs of the world's travel and tourism industries. Its comprehensive GDS data processing centre serves 61,870 travel agency locations and more than 10,520 airline sales offices, which together total more than 269,900 points of sale located in over 200 markets worldwide.

Amadeus is a leading application service provider (ASP) to the airline industry. More than 131 airlines use the Amadeus Sales System in their offices to provide passengers with superior and seamless service at optimal cost. Amadeus' new generation of Passenger Service Systems, which include all IT systems associated with inventory management and departure control, will be implemented by British Airways, Qantas, and Finnair.

e-Travel, Amadeus' e-commerce business unit, is global leader in online travel technology and corporate travel management solutions. It powers the Web pages of 887 travel agencies, 255 corporate sites, 18 hotel sites and 139 web sites serving 50 airlines.

Amadeus is headquartered in Madrid, Spain and quoted on the Madrid, Paris, and Frankfurt stock exchanges. For the year ended 31 December 2002, the company reported revenues of EUR 1856m and net income of EUR 148.6m. The Amadeus data centre is in Erding (near Munich), Germany and its principal development offices are located in Sophia Antipolis (near Nice), France. The company has over 4,400 employees worldwide.