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Arel Communications and Software Extends Market Reach to Southeast Asia and the Far East Through New Collaboration Agreement With SingTel

Posted on: Tuesday, 24 May 2005, 09:00 CDT

SingTel Strengthens Its Satellite IP Learn Service for Use in Real-Time E-Learning and Video Conferencing with Arel Spotlight Conferencing Application Suite

Arel Communications and Software (NASDAQ: ARLC), technology leader in universal voice, video and data Web communication for interactive conferencing and collaboration, today announced an agreement with Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), Asia's leading provider of telecommunications services, to offer Arel Spotlight(TM) conferencing and e-learning solutions to enterprise clients across Asia.

SingTel IP Learn service will host Arel Spotlight as the application, which provides interactive distance learning (IDL) via its advanced satellite-based DVB-IP platform. SingTel's new satellite services are ideally suited for the provision of professional IP-based services such as e-Learning, tele-medicine, videoconferencing, video streaming and other broadband services. Arel Spotlight, offered over SingTel IP Learn service, will allow clients to provide distance education to remote locations through video and voice, as well as media-rich content and data collaboration.

Philippe Szwarc, CEO of Arel, said, "We look forward to our partnership with SingTel and to providing its corporate customers in Southeast Asia and the Far East with the most innovative communication tools. Through the fusion of Arel Spotlight's e-learning, videoconferencing and application sharing with SingTel's satellite services, clients can now conduct more effective and productive training and conferencing sessions from anywhere in the world, to anywhere in the world."

In Singapore, SingTel operates has three four satellite earth stations providing direct transmissions to over 80 countries. Apart from being among the world's largest investors in satellite systems, SingTel has also launched its own satellite, ST-1, in 1998. The ST-1 is one of the most powerful satellites in the region with a footprint covering most of Asia.

"We are very excited with the capabilities of this new suite of solutions. Together with Arel, we will be able to allow our customers to easily offer, manage and deliver various types of data, content and multimedia applications to their receiving audience at the remote sites," said Masagos Zulkifli, Vice President of SingTel's Regional and Mobile Satellite Business.

Designed from the ground up to deliver synchronized, real-time voice, video and data communications over converged IP networks, Arel's family of Spotlight applications includes Spotlight Meeting, Spotlight Campus, and Spotlight Webinar. Spotlight Meeting is designed for interactive work groups as well as one-to-one meetings. Spotlight Campus is a feature-rich solution covering all aspects of distance training, and Spotlight Webinar, designed for video-enabled live Web-based seminars for knowledge delivery to large audiences. Each application provides integrated live audio, video, rich-media content and data collaboration along with its own administrative environment.

About SingTel:

SingTel is Asia's leading communications group with operations and investments around the world. Serving both the corporate and consumer markets, it is committed to bringing the best of global communications to customers in Asia Pacific and beyond. With significant operations in Singapore and Australia (through wholly-owned subsidiary SingTel Optus), the Group provides a comprehensive portfolio of services that include voice and data services over fixed, wireless and Internet platforms.

To serve the needs of multi-national corporations, SingTel has a network of 34 offices in 16 countries and territories throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and the United States. These offices enable SingTel to deliver reliable and quality network solutions to its customers, either on its own or jointly with local partners. The Group also has major investments in India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. Together with its regional partners, SingTel is Asia's largest multi-market mobile operator, serving almost 65 million customers in six markets.

SingTel employs more than 19,000 people worldwide and had a turnover of S$12.6 billion (US$7.64 billion) and net profit after tax of S$3.27 billion (US$1.98 billion) for the year ended 31 March 2005. More information can be found @ www.singtel.com and www.optus.com.au.

About Arel Communications and Software:

Arel Communications and Software, a technology leader in interactive web communications, develops, markets and sells a universal conferencing software solution for enterprise-wide deployment of integrated voice, video and data web conferencing/collaboration and training applications. Designed around Arel's Integrated Conferencing Platform(TM) (ICP) core software, the Arel Spotlight(TM) application suite facilitates collaboration for key business processes such as corporate and marketing communications, distance learning, product development, customer relationship management, and supply chain management by allowing dispersed enterprise users to collaborate in real time with synchronized voice, video and data. Arel's scaleable, secure, and network-friendly universal conferencing solution is becoming the choice solution for large enterprises moving from "off-network" pay-per-usage services to "on-network" solutions for greater control, cost-savings and integration with internal systems. www.arelcom.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions in the industry, changes in demand for products, the timing and amount or cancellation of orders and other risks detailed from time to time in Arel Communications and Software's filings with the Security Exchange Commission.

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Source: Business Wire

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