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Sonus Networks Extends Open Services Partner Alliance With Addition of Five New Members
URL(s): http://www.sonusnet.com
WESTFORD, Mass., July 2, 2001--
Program Helps Sonus' Carrier Customers Assemble End-to-End Voice Technology Solutions
Sonus Networks (Nasdaq: SONS), a leading provider of voice infrastructure solutions for the new public network, today
announced that five companies have joined the Open Services Partner Alliance(TM) (OSPA), further increasing the range and
scope of the telecom partner initiative.
The two-year-old program provides a framework to offer Sonus' carrier customers an end-to-end spectrum of packet-based
network solutions. Sonus partners with companies whose innovative products complement its market-leading technologies. The
OSPA consists of more than 140 partners, who range from enhanced services applications providers and network infrastructure
vendors to technology and services partners.
New entrants include BeVocal Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif.; Brix Networks Inc. of Chelmsford, Mass.; Digiquant of Roskilde,
Denmark; Kagoor Networks Inc. of San Mateo, Calif.; and Navini Networks Inc. of Plano, Texas.
"In the past two years, the OSPA has served as a catalyst for our customers, providing carriers and service providers with
the most extensive and up-to-date packet voice solutions for their next-generation networks," said Terri Griffin, vice president
of marketing programs at Sonus Networks. "Each company that joins brings a fresh set of skills and services to the Alliance.
We look forward to working with each of these new partners to develop end-to-end, integrated solutions that will deliver on the
promise of the new public network."
Companies joining the Sonus OSPA today offer a wide variety of enhanced services, infrastructure products and OSS
solutions to carriers and service providers:
-- BeVocal's mission is to extend the power of every phone by providing telecom companies with carrier-grade solutions for
creating and delivering next-generation enhanced services. Using the open, standards-based BeVocal Foundation Platform,
carriers can offer business and residential customers the ability to retrieve information, manage messages and conduct
transactions. Developers can also build high-quality voice applications using BeVocal Cafe, ranked as the industry's top
VoiceXML development environment by CT Labs. (www.bevocal.com)
-- Brix Networks develops and markets carrier-class products and services that verify the quality and real-time performance
of advanced, Internet-based services, such as VoIP, VPNs, hosted applications, and streaming media. Brix Networks'
solutions help carriers and service providers understand the overall performance of their networks, and establish strong, trusting
relationships with their customers by providing proactive, end-to-end service level agreement (SLA) verification. The company's
flagship offering - the Brix System - is a seamlessly integrated hardware and software product that is the industry's first complete
solution built specially to address the Internet Protocol (IP) performance management needs of carriers and service providers.
(www.brixnet.com)
-- Digiquant (formerly Belle Systems) is a global provider of the multi-service platform, Internet Management System (IMS).
Leading service providers around the globe use IMS to deploy, manage and bill for next-generation services, including VoIP,
VPN, DSL, and 2.5 and 3G Wireless. A carrier-grade, scalable solution, IMS enables service providers to be innovative and
more efficient, and to reduce the time to market for new services. IMS for VoIP supports prepaid, postpaid, calling cards,
wholesale, retail, SIP, and Voice VPNs. (www.digiquant.com)
-- Kagoor Networks is committed to helping service providers and carriers overcome the technical and business roadblocks
that have tended to inhibit the widespread, commercial deployment of VoIP services. Kagoor's patent-pending
VoiceFlow(TM) platform is the first VoIP-aware, wire-speed, packet-processing device that can be transparently added to IP
networks. VoiceFlow classifies, measures and manipulates voice traffic, giving the provider the ability to resolve infrastructure
issues such as call quality, bandwidth availability, call duration and routing quality with an expected ROI of two to eight months.
(www.kagoor.com)
-- Navini Networks is developing infrastructure products that service providers can use to offer lower-cost, more accessible
wireless broadband access to the Internet. The company's Ripwave products provide nomadic broadband access and
circumvent line-of-sight issues, giving end users the ability to log on anytime, anywhere. Navini's Ripwave lowers providers'
installation costs through a zero-install, plug-and-play, retail-friendly consumer device. Navini's system consists of a base station
and antenna; a comprehensive element management system; and a small, sleek CPE (customer premise equipment) that quickly
connects to the end user's computer. (www.navini.com)
Founded on the combination of Sonus' Open Services Partner Alliance (OSPA) Program and the INIP Powered(SM)
Partner Program from the acquisition of telecom technologies, inc., the OSPA has gained significant industry momentum, with
membership of more than 140 leading independent vendors. The OSPA provides a framework that offers service providers
end-to-end packet-based network solutions using best-of breed technologies and applications. The goal of the OSPA is to
empower standards-based interoperability between applications, hardware vendors, and the Sonus product suite. An integral
part of the Sonus OSPA, the Interoperability Laboratory in Richardson, Texas, is the first in the industry where product
interoperability is verified, trial testing is performed, and complete solutions are ultimately produced. Additional information on
the OSPA is available at http://ospa.sonusnet.com.
Sonus Networks is a leading provider of voice infrastructure products for the new public network. Sonus' solutions enable
service providers to deploy an integrated network capable of carrying both voice and data traffic, and to deliver a range of
innovative, new services. The Sonus Open Services Architecture(TM) (OSA) and award-winning Packet Telephony suite cut
the time-to-market for competitive new service products, allowing carriers and third-party developers to expand market share
and build important new revenue streams. Its highly scalable products fully interoperate with and extend the life and utility of
today's public network. Sonus embodies in its management and staff decades of experience in developing carrier-class voice,
data and multimedia solutions for implementation in the world's largest networks. Sonus, founded in 1997, is headquartered in
Westford, Massachusetts. Additional information on Sonus is available at http://www.sonusnet.com.
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