Connectria Provides IT Infrastructure Management For Gemplus

ST. LOUIS, MO (July 10, 2002) - Connectria Corporation today announced that it has been awarded a multi-year contract to provide 24/7 management of Gemplus' (Nasdaq: GEMP) North American IT Infrastructure including Oracle, HP-UX, Cisco, and Checkpoint technologies. Gemplus will leverage Connectria's advanced Internet and data center infrastructure, as well as its expertise in IT infrastructure technologies from Oracle, HP, Cisco, and Checkpoint.

Mike O'Hara, Gemplus IS Operations Manager for North America said "Connectria's account management techniques, and business focused requirement analysis has been essential to Gemplus achieving its internal goals of Lean Manufacturing, Cost Benefit decision making for IT infrastructure, and on-site personnel deployment. Connectria maintains a high degree of expert engineers who are positioned to respond 24x7 to our production environment and Gemplus continues to utilize Connectria to provide Network Engineering expertise and to monitor and manage our UNIX and Oracle systems"

About Gemplus International S.A.
Gemplus International S.A. (Nasdaq: GEMP) is the world's leading company in the smart card industry in both revenue and total shipments. It has the largest R&D team, unrivalled experience, and an outstanding track record of technological innovation. Gemplus offers an exceptional range of portable, personalized solutions that bring security and convenience to people's lives. These include Mobile Telecommunications, Public Telephony, Banking, Retail, Transport, Identity, Pay-TV, e-government, access control, and a wealth of other applications.

About Connectria
Connectria is a profitable, growing and privately held provider of world-class IT Infrastructure Solutions targeted to large and Midsized organizations worldwide. Connectria's business has been built through reinvesting profits and without any debt or equity financing. Thus, Connectria is beholden to no one except our customers. Connectria operates world-class Data Centers, Network Operations Centers, and Engineering Centers located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA and St. Louis, Missouri, USA. From these facilities, Connectria operates as a virtual extension of our clients' IT organizations.

Connectria's services allow our clients to do more and spend less on their IT infrastructures, typically by 25 - 60% or more. Connectria is staffed 24 hours, 365 days per year to build, monitor and manage mission critical IT environments for our clients. Connectria offers an array of services including full outsourcing of IT infrastructures, managed hosting, disaster recovery, remote monitoring, onsite facilities management, and custom software development and engineering services. For more information, please contact Connectria at 1-800-781-7820 or visit us online at www.connectria.com.

To learn more about Connectria or to receive a detailed quote on any of our services, please contact us.