Company Interview Excerpt RICHARD KARP - CATAPULT COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION (CATT) Full article published: 5/4/2001     For Subscribers Get this article online now! Order just this article Get Financial Filings and Annual Reports for Companies featured on TWST from EasyReports.net TWST: Could we start out by you giving us a brief overview of Catapult Communications? Bring us up to date since we had an interview about 10 months ago. Dr. Karp: Catapult Communications has been in business profitably since 1985 and it services the still rapidly growing, rapidly changing telecom industry by making telecom test systems. We focus mostly on telecom equipment manufacturers as our customer base, although our largest customer in the fiscal year ended September 30, 2000 was an operator, NTT DoCoMo. We do try to cover the waterfront in telecom test software in two main areas ' third generation digital cellular, or 3G, and Voice- over-IP, which is the area where the data-com network is going to carry the voice traffic rather than the other way around. TWST: Who are some of your customers? Dr. Karp: Our customer base includes most of the large players in telecom; just about anyone you could name. Some customers have been around for a long time like Motorola, Lucent, and Ericsson. They've been customers for more than 10 years. Some are newer customers like Cisco and Nokia. We sell to basically every major manufacturer in the telecom industry. So I'd add Hitachi, Fujitsu, ADC Japan, Alcatel, Siemens, Nortel, and so on. Tickers included in this excerpt: CATT Have TWST notes emailed to you free: Email address: For more information call (212) 952 7400. The Wall Street Transcript does not endorse any of the comments made by interviewees, and does not make stock recommendations.

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