premise: WHEREAS AMDOCS (or any of its affiliated companies) is the owner and/or author of and/or has the right to license certain valuable proprietary routines, computer programs, documentation, trade secrets, systems, methodology, know-how, marketing and other commercial knowledge, techniques, specifications, plans and other proprietary information, whether in oral, written, graphic, electronic, or any other form or medium whatsoever, including any related ideas and look-and-feel, which are referred to in this Agreement as "the AMDOCS Proprietary Information"; and WHEREAS SBC OPERATIONS, INC. ("SBC") would like the Receiving Party to provide it with certain services the "Services"); and WHEREAS in order to perform the Services, the Receiving Party must have access to the AMDOCS Proprietary Information, and AMDOCS agrees to provide the Receiving Party with such access to the AMDOCS Proprietary Information, subject to the Receiving Party first obligating itself to confidentiality by signing this Agreement. NOW THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows: 1. In this Agreement, "AMDOCS Confidential Information" means the software and any other AMDOCS Proprietary Information received by the Receiving Party from SBC or Amdocs where the AMDOCS Proprietary Information is clearly so marked or where the Receiving Party has otherwise been made aware that the AMDOCS Proprietary Information is confidential. 