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Pingtel Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine's `'Product of the Year`' Award for 2004

Posted on: Tuesday, 4 January 2005, 09:00 CST

Selection Validates Impact of the First Native SIP PBX on the Market and Demonstrates Value of Open Source Business Model

Pingtel Corp., the leading provider of open source, business-grade enterprise communications solutions, today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC(R))'s INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) magazine (www.itmag.com) has named Pingtel's SIPxchange SIP PBX as a recipient of a 2004 Product of the Year Award. Pingtel's SIPxchange, the enterprise SIP PBX for Linux, was selected for the overall impact the open source SIP PBX had on the market during 2004. TMC also awarded SIPxchange an Editor's Choice award in October 2004. INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority Since 1998(TM).

"Each year INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine bestows its Product of the Year awards on companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement, application refinements, and significant improvements in customers' ability to acquire and use communications technology. Pingtel has demonstrated to the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY that its products and services deliver quality and innovation, while addressing the real needs in the marketplace," said Rich Tehrani, Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

Pingtel delivers enterprise-class SIP PBX, SIP call manager and softphone applications based on open source software from SIPfoundry.org., similar to the RedHat model for delivery of professional-grade Linux. (www.SIPfoundry.org). Unlike vertically integrated systems, Pingtel's open-source based solutions provide open interfaces, allowing customers and VARs to use best-of-breed IP phones, gateways and applications, driving down user costs and vastly improving the user experience. Moreover, Pingtel's open source-based systems are easily extensible by the open source community, users and partners, substantially improving cycle time for new feature development, resulting in significantly greater customer control and value of enterprise communications systems.

"2004 will be viewed as a turning point in enterprise communications as credible open source-based PBXs and related applications became available for the first time, delivering the same value Linux is providing in computing applications." said William J. Rich, president and CEO of Pingtel Corp. "For the first time, customers can acquire low-cost, standards-based communications platforms using the hardware and applications that best meet the users' price and performance requirements, and eliminating single-vendor lock in." Pingtel's enterprise communications suite includes the SIPxchange PBX, including unified messaging, SIPxchange CallManager, providing enterprise-level toll bypass and application routing, and SIP Softphone. SIPxchange software runs on standard server hardware and uses the Linux operating system.

The Product of the Year Award winners for 2004 will be published in the January 2005 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. Visit Pingtel at the Spring Internet Telephony Conference in Miami, Florida, February 22-25, 2005 in booth 200.

About TMC(R)

Celebrating more than 30 years as a leading publisher, Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC(R)) publishes Customer Inter@ction Solutions(R) and INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) magazines, Web portal TMCnet.com, and the online publications SIP(TM), Speech-World(TM), VoIP Developer(TM), WiFI Telephony(TM), WiMAX(TM), Alternative Power(TM) and BiometriTech(TM). TMC(R) is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC(R) Labs. TMC(R) produces INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) Conference & EXPO, VoIP Developer Conference(TM) and Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit(TM). TMC offers live and online certification programs through TMC University. TMCnet.com publishes more than 14 online newsletters. Visit www.tmcnet.com for details.

About Pingtel Corporation:

Pingtel is reshaping the communications market by delivering the first enterprise class SIP PBXs, SIP call managers/routers and SIP softphones based on 100% SIP, 100% open source software. Offering enterprise-class communications applications under Linux-style subscription licenses, Pingtel combines the best attributes of open source development - low cost, adaptability and flexibility - with the reliable solutions and support enterprises require for voice applications. Pingtel's open source SIP PBX is the linchpin technology that will catalyze the movement of enterprise communications into the data center and away from purpose-built hardware. Like enterprise-grade Linux, this approach will drive commoditization of traditional telephony hardware and software and eliminate vendor lock-ins that keep prices high and limit innovation. For more information, visit www.pingtel.com.

Note to Editors: Pingtel, SIPxchange, etc. are trademarks of Pingtel Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Source: Business Wire

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