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Reef Point Systems' New Universal Convergence Gateway Receives Best of Show Award at Internet Telephony Conference & EXPO West 2006

Posted on: Monday, 13 November 2006, 12:00 CST

BURLINGTON, Mass., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Reef Point Systems (http://www.reefpoint.com/), announced today that its Universal Convergence Gateway (UCG) has been recognized by TMC's INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine as a winner of its prestigious "Best of Show" award at the INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO West 2006. Reef Point was prominently featured in the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) pavilion at the exposition.

"Reef Point's Universal Convergence Gateway stood out as a unique product at the recent INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine editors were impressed by the product's broad functionality and especially its ability to scale to provide secure, multimedia fixed-mobile convergence applications to up to 500,000 users and to support a wide range of access networks. Reef Point is well-positioned to be a leader in the FMC market," said Greg Galitzine, INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine Editorial Director.

The Universal Convergence Gateway (UCG) gives telecommunications service providers a single platform for delivering Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) and multimedia services to their customers over all major fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) network technologies (i.e., mobile, fixed-line and wireless) and all major next-generation industry standard network architectures (IP Multimedia Subsystem/IMS, Unlicensed Mobile Access/UMA, IMS over WiMAX, picocells, etc.). The UCG is a control point situated between a service provider's core network (where application servers, subscriber databases, billing systems and other elements reside) and the access networks that subscribers use to receive services via mobile phones, laptops and next-generation hand-held devices.

Purpose-built to address the full set of session-aware FMC control functions for the full range of access networks and industry standard FMC architectures, the UCG provides the:

* Functions (e.g., network termination, privacy, infrastructure security) required by each major industry standard FMC architecture * Intelligence to determine the resources (e.g., bandwidth) required for each type of service (e.g., video, music, voice or instant messaging) * Policy enforcement required for service personalization per subscriber, service authorization, subscriber presence, network zone-specific security, etc. * Carrier-class scalability (up to 500,000 registered users and 1 million concurrent sessions per UCG chassis) * Carrier-class performance (wire-speed even at maximum scalability) * Carrier-class reliability (redundant architecture). About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, SIP Magazine and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 2,300 sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves as many as one million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces Communications Developer Conference, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. For more information about TMC, visit http://www.tmcnet.com/. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)

About The INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO Best of Show Award

The INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO Best of Show award recognizes innovative products and solutions that were featured in the exhibit hall during the event. This designation serves to highlight the technological achievement and creative product features that set these vendors apart from the rest of the crowd. The INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine editorial staff met with vendors to inspect and review the displayed products over the course of the three-day event.

About Reef Point Systems

Reef Point Systems (http://www.reeefpoint.com/) is the maker of the Universal Convergence Gateway (UCG), the telecommunications industry's only available platform purpose-built with the functionality, performance and scalability to provide comprehensive access control (termination, security, policy management and quality of service) for the full range of fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) implementations and industry standard architectures. The UCG platform and its broad range of FMC solutions give service providers the utmost freedom, flexibility and affordability to build compelling, competitive services for their customers. These solutions maximize service reach, by delivering services over any access technology; ensure service availability by protecting all levels of the FMC infrastructure (subscriber device, access network, IP core and applications) and by enforcing quality of service; and protect revenue streams by defending against theft of service. Reef Point Systems is a privately held company and is located in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Reef Point Systems, Universal Convergence Gateway, iQ8500, iQ4500 and iQOS are trademarks or registered trademarks of Reef Point Systems. Other company names, product names and company logos mentioned herein are the trademarks, or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact: David Hayward Lisa Allocca Reef Point Systems Red Javelin Communications, Inc. +1 508 395 5770 +1 978 470 2227 dhayward@reefpoint.com lisa@redjavelin.com http://www.reefpoint.com/ http://www.redjavelin.com/

Reef Point Systems

CONTACT: David Hayward or Reef Point Systems, +1-508-395-5770,dhayward@reefpoint.com; or Lisa Allocca of Red Javelin Communications, Inc.,+1-978-470-2227, lisa@redjavelin.com

Web site: http://www.reefpoint.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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