Another Milestone for Netcentrex: Residential Deployments Exceed 3 Million VoIP Lines

Another Milestone for Netcentrex: Residential Deployments Exceed 3 Million VoIP Lines

May 15, 2006

Netcentrex, Worldwide Market Leader for VoIP Application Servers, Remains Number 1 in Class 5 Residential VoIP Deployments

    PARIS, May 15 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Netcentrex, the
leading enabler of next generation converged voice and
video solutions, today announced that its residential
deployments have exceeded 3 million Class 5 voice over IP
(VoIP) lines in commercial service. Declared worldwide
market leader for VoIP Application Servers by iLocus last
month, Netcentrex continues to leverage strong worldwide
growth in residential voice over broadband (VoBB)
connectivity and triple play service bundles. Netcentrex
customers are currently activating over 5,000 lines per
day.

    Netcentrex solutions are used in some of the largest
residential IP service deployments worldwide. As an
example, Italian Triple Play service provider, Fastweb,
handles up to 10 million VoIP calls per day using
Netcentrex solutions.

    Netcentrex is the only softswitch/application server
with demonstrated five nines reliability over an extended
time. This is based on reports from key customers with
extensive commercial VoIP deployments that include 99.997
reliability and no unplanned outage on Netcentrex platforms
in 5 years.

    Netcentrex outstanding track record is reported and
commended regularly by industry players and analysts:

    Industry research firm, iLocus, reported Netcentrex as
delivering 29% of VoIP local call volume minutes for
standards-based Voice over Broadband (VoBB) platforms in
2005 in its "Global VoIP Market 2006" study,
making the company the leader in this market. Netcentrex
was also named as the leading Independent Subscriber
Feature Server worldwide, with 32% market share, in the
same report.

    Netcentrex was recently ranked number 2 supplier of
Multi-media Application Servers by Current Analysis, based
on a qualitative/quantitative analysis of scalability,
market leadership, reference accounts, applications and
IMS.

    Frost & Sullivan declared Netcentrex the leading
VoIP Application Server supplier with 27% market share of
the Class 5 application server market in 2005.

    MyCall(R) Video Telephony received Internet Technology
Magazine's "Product of the Year Award" for 2005
and the company was also named to the 2005 "Pulver
100".

    "Residential IP communications and more
particularly, triple play, are a driving force behind many
of today's service provider strategies and
deployments," said Olivier Hersent, Chairman of
Netcentrex. "Service providers are looking to deploy
compelling and cost-effective voice-video-data service
bundles as part of a long term strategy to reduce customer
churn, improve ARPU and reduce operational costs. Defining
a realistic and profitable long-term business case is not
simple. It requires knowledge of the markets, an
understanding of the technologies and deployment of
solutions capable of delivering high quality services now
with the capacity to migrate to full IMS, FMC and Quad Play
services as the markets evolve."

    About Netcentrex(TM) ( http://www.Netcentrex.net )

    Netcentrex develops IP-based voice and video solutions
that enable communication service providers to deliver
wireline and converged fixed-mobile services for both the
consumer and enterprise markets.

    Netcentrex has 3 million VoIP lines in commercial
service and has been recognized as the worldwide leader for
Class 5 application servers.

    For more information, please contact:

    Netcentrex EMEA
     Madeleine Jeavons
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]
     Web:   http://www.netcentrex.net

    Netcentrex US / Latin America
     Brian Mahony
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]
     Web:   http://www.netcentrex.net

SOURCE  Netcentrex