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Pactolus Appoints VPs of Engineering and Advanced Technology Development, Supports Customer and Product Growth With New Facilities

Posted on: Thursday, 1 December 2005, 09:00 CST

VP of Engineering Steve Weeks Joins Industry's Leading Carrier IP Voice Services Vendor; Pactolus Expands To New Headquarters Facility

Pactolus Communications Software Corporation, the leading developer of Class 4/5 SIP-based IP voice services, today announced that Steve Weeks has joined the company as Vice President of Engineering, overseeing the ongoing development and extension of Pactolus' widely-deployed SIPware(TM) Services Suite, and the RapidFLEX(TM) Service Delivery Platform. Jeff Gibson takes on the new role of Vice President of Advanced Technology Development, working directly with Founder and CTO David Horton to lead strategic initiatives leveraging emerging market opportunities such as IMS. Pactolus also today announced the relocation of its headquarters to a new 13,000 square foot facility in Marlborough, Mass. to accommodate its rapid, ongoing expansion. Pactolus now supports more than 30 service providers worldwide through direct and partner deployments.

Pactolus Chairman and CEO Paul Blondin noted: "We're delighted to welcome Steve Weeks, a distinctly accomplished engineering executive, to the Pactolus team. He brings the proven ability to lead engineering initiatives, a wealth of software development experience, and a solid reputation among customers and associates. Together, Steve's engineering and industry acumen and Jeff's extensive SIP and wireless network domain experience are a powerful combination that equip us for continued customer growth and leadership in emerging market opportunities."

Weeks brings extensive startup and global corporation engineering experience to Pactolus, and was most recently VP of Engineering for Brontes Technology. As Vice President of Research and Development for NBX Corporation, Weeks led the development of the industry's first market-viable packet-switched PBX; upon 3Com's acquisition of NBX, he became Senior Director of Engineering for 3Com's Voice Engineering Group, leading a large, globally distributed team in ongoing VoIP and IP product development and initiatives such as PSTN-IP integration and internationalization. Weeks previously served as Assistant Vice President of New Product Development for Boston Technology and Vice President of Product Development for ICL.

Weeks holds a BS in Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science from Pepperdine University. He is named in granted United States patents for telecommunications packet forwarding and collision avoidance, PBX modem access technologies, and Ethernet traffic isolation.

Pactolus' new headquarters in Marlborough, Mass. features state-of-the-art development and testing laboratories, customer and partner certification and compliance facilities to support domestic and global deployments, and advanced customer care, sales and marketing facilities that support the company's ongoing expansion.

About Pactolus Communications Software:

Pactolus Communications Software Corporation is the leading developer of SIP-based IP voice services for today's networks with over 1 billion minutes of monthly network capacity installed in service provider networks worldwide. The company is the first to bring sophisticated, third-party call control capabilities to SIP-based networks. Pactolus offers a suite of turnkey IP voice services that can be customized for deployment in any SIP-enabled network called SIPware(TM) Services, built upon the RapidFLEX(TM) Service Delivery Platform.

The SIPware Services Suite enables service providers to deliver multiple, advanced voice applications that are versatile and scalable in a single platform environment. These services include broadband IP telephony, prepaid calling card, post paid calling card, conference calling, voice messaging, service-integrated operator assistance, and custom SCE-built applications. The RapidFLEX Service Delivery Platform includes an application server, service creation environment (SCE), software-based IP media server, session border control server, element management system, subscriber self-service portals, high availability features, and other components in an open, extensible software framework. Pactolus is a venture funded, privately held company headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts.

Source: Business Wire

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