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Comverse Launches Presence Server; Provides A Real-Time Indication Of Users' Availability And Willingness To Communicate For SMS, Mobile IM, And Voice Applications

Posted on: Monday, 7 February 2005, 09:00 CST

Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMVT), and the world's leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication services, today announced availability of the Comverse Presence Server. Providing real-time indication of the desired party's ability and willingness to communicate, presence enables operators to offer attractive new services, stimulate service usage, and potentially generate increased revenues.

Presence enables callers to determine the best means for contact by communicating the called party's preferences, such as SMS, Mobile IM, and Push to Talk. Callers' knowledge of called party availability, preferred means of communication, and device capabilities can trigger new communication and increase usage of value-added services.

"The effect of presence will first be to harmonize communications, then boost productivity, and finally lubricate commerce," noted Charles Golvin, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research (This is Not Your Teenager's Instant Messaging, Forrester Research, February 2003).

As a leading provider of value-added services to network operators, Comverse is well-positioned to contribute to the growing impact of presence in the marketplace. The Comverse Presence Server supports an array of Comverse and third-party applications. The Presence Server is designed to enable 2G operators to deploy appealing presence-enhanced applications today, and grow to a full IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) application environment over next-generation 2.5G and 3G networks. The system architecture is optimized to serve multiple IMS applications - such as Push to Talk, mobile IM, and voice conferencing - through one robust centralized component. Featuring a high-capacity scalable architecture and supporting leading mobile communication protocols and standards (such as OMA, IMPS and SIP), the system is designed to help operators migrate from legacy to next-generation networks.

"The Comverse Presence Server is positioned to become a central component of the operator's value-added services infrastructure, empowering a wide range of presence-enhanced services," said Benny Einhorn, Chief Marketing Officer at Comverse. "The Presence Server adds a new dimension to the Comverse Total Communication(TM) environment, further improving the user experience and driving operator revenues."

About Comverse

Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMVT), is the world's leading provider of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication services. These value-added enhanced services solutions, along with the company's real-time billing solutions, comprise the company's Total Communication portfolio. Comverse's Total Communication portfolio addresses four primary categories: call completion and call management solutions; advanced messaging for groups, communities and person-to-person communication; solutions and enablers for the management and delivery of data and content-based services; and real-time billing and account management solutions for dynamic service environments. Other Comverse Technology business units include: Verint Systems (NASDAQ: VRNT), a leading provider of analytic software-based solutions for communications interception, networked video security and business intelligence; and Ulticom (NASDAQ: ULCM), a leading provider of service enabling signaling software for wireline, wireless and Internet communications. Comverse Technology is an S&P 500 and NASDAQ-100 Index company. For additional information, visit the Comverse Web site at www.comverse.com or Comverse Technology's Web site at www.cmvt.com.

All product and company names mentioned herein may be registered trademarks or trademarks of Comverse or the respective referenced company(s).

Note: This release may contain "forward-looking statements" under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that involve risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurances that forward-looking statements will be achieved, and actual results could differ materially from forecasts and estimates. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: changes in the demand for the Company's products; changes in capital spending among the Company's current and prospective customers; the risks associated with the sale of large, complex, high capacity systems and with new product introductions as well as the uncertainty of customer acceptance of these new or enhanced products from either the Company or its competition; risks associated with rapidly changing technology and the ability of the Company to introduce new products on a timely and cost-effective basis; aggressive competition may force the Company to reduce prices; a failure to compensate any decrease in the sale of the Company's traditional products with a corresponding increase in sales of new products; risks associated with changes in the competitive or regulatory environment in which the Company operates; risks associated with prosecuting or defending allegations or claims of infringement of intellectual property rights; risks associated with significant foreign operations and international sales and investment activities, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, interest rates, and valuations of public and private equity; the volatility of macroeconomic and industry conditions and the international marketplace; risks associated with the Company's ability to retain existing personnel and recruit and retain qualified personnel; and other risks described in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These risks and uncertainties, as well as others, are discussed in greater detail in the filings of the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. These documents are available through the Company, or its website, www.cmvt.com, or through the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov. The Company makes no commitment to revise or update any forward-looking statement in order to reflect events or circumstances after the date any such statement is made.

Source: Business Wire

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