Motive Hits Strategic CPE Milestone

Advancing its Digital Home Management strategy, Motive, Inc. todayannounced that a majority of the market for customer premisesequipment (CPE) is now interoperable with the joint Motive-Alcateldevice management product, Home Device Manager. These vendors includeboth device and semiconductor providers such as Actiontec, AnalogDevices, Broadcom, Conexant, Jungo, Linksys, Netopia, Philips,Siemens, SMC Networks, Texas Instruments, Thomson, Westell and ZyXELCommunications.

Interoperability with Motive's software allows these vendors tomeet the growing demand for management automation in the digital home,supporting such processes as zero-touch CD-less device activation,Web-based service registration and configuration, service policymanagement, as well as self-support and service upgrades.

As a result, service providers using Motive's software to deployand manage their next-generation triple play service offerings willhave greater flexibility and lower risk associated with deploying andsupporting multiple types of CPE.

"Service providers are requiring vendors to prove interoperabilitywith today's standards so that providers can quickly deploy newservices without the risk of proprietary solutions," said Kenny VanZant, Motive's executive vice president of marketing. "Working withmore than 40 CPE, Motive has supported interoperability requirementsfor several years. Now that the DSL industry has come together todrive true TR-069 interoperability, Motive continues to demonstrateour leadership in this area."

To learn more about how to become interoperable with all Motiveproducts through the MotiveSmart(TM) Verification Program, visitwww.motive.com/cpeprogram.

About the MotiveSmart(TM) Verification Program

The MotiveSmart Verification Program uses standards verificationtesting to enable partners to rapidly develop, market and sell CPEthat leverages Motive's industry leading service management products.These products represent world-class solutions for broadband serviceproviders that are bringing new digital home services to market.Motive's unique approach to device testing begins by testing baselineinteroperability of CPE with industry standards such as UPnP, SNMP andthe DSL Forum's TR-069, TR-064 and TR-104. The program then builds onthat foundation to ensure that Motive and its partners can support thereal needs of broadband service providers all over the world.

About Motive, Inc.

Motive, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOTV) has pioneered a unique approach todesigning management services into Internet-era networks, systems andapplications. Motive's software makes complex products and servicesself-managing, reducing overhead costs and optimizing customers'return on investment. Companies worldwide have relied on Motive'ssoftware to provide a range of problem remediation and configurationmanagement tasks for more than 45 million endpoints. Founded in 1997,Motive is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has offices in Europeand Asia. For more information, visit www.motive.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements thatinvolve risks and uncertainties relating to our ability to verifyadherence to interoperability and technical standards, the expectedbenefits of interoperable equipment, and the expected benefits ofusing our products. Actual events or results may differ materiallyfrom those described in this press release due to a number of risksand uncertainties, including, among other things: our ability and ourcustomers' ability to achieve broad adoption and acceptance of ourproducts, the ability of our products and interoperable CPE productsto produce results for our customers and their subscribers, and thecompatibility of our products with hardware devices and softwareplatforms that are used by our customers and their subscribers now orin the future. Additional information concerning these and other riskfactors associated with our business can be found in our filings withthe Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available atwww.sec.gov. Statements included in this press release are based uponinformation known to us as of the date of this release, and we assumeno obligation to update any information contained in this pressrelease.

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