AudioCodes and Aastra Deliver Unified Communications for the Enterprise: Financial News

AudioCodes and Aastra Deliver Unified Communications for the Enterprise
Monday November 10, 2008 8:30 am ET
AudioCodes' Media Gateways Selected for Aastra Unified Communications Solutions

LOD, Israel and DALLAS, Nov. 10, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AudioCodes (NasdaqGS:AUDC - News), a leading provider of Voice over IP (VoIP) technologies and Voice Network products, and Aastra, a leading provider of IP-Telephony solutions, today announced an agreement for Aastra to deliver AudioCodes' Digital and Analog Gateways with their IP-PBX solutions.

Aastra and AudioCodes are collaborating on a long-term strategy, assisting customers with investments in legacy equipment to migrate to a standards-based IP infrastructure, avoiding expenses of ``Fork Lift'' upgrades whenever possible. This strategy includes leveraging the Mediant(tm) and MediaPack(tm) gateways and other new networking connectivity and security products provided by AudioCodes.

``We are extremely pleased to offer AudioCodes gateways as part of our Clearspan(r) solution as well as a complement to our Pointspan product,'' said Dana A. Call, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Aastra USA Inc. ``These products fit Aastra's commitment to support open standards to give customers the flexibility they need and the investment protection they desire.''

``The combination of AudioCodes' gateways with Aastra's IP-PBX solutions allows large enterprises to embrace an IP-based Unified Communications model to improve productivity and reduce management complexity while ensuring quality and reliability,'' said Lior Aldema, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at AudioCodes. ``Aastra is committed to offering smooth migration strategies to its customers to ease the transition from traditional to pure IP voice transport and AudioCodes is the premier provider of gateway products that make the transition reliable and affordable.''

AudioCodes' Mediant and MediaPack gateways enable connectivity from Aastra's Clearspan and Pointspan(r) SIP based IP-PBX solutions to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) using digital and analog interfaces. When used in remote branch offices, a key capability of AudioCodes' gateways is Stand Alone Survivability (SAS), a unique software feature within the gateway that allows remote branch offices to remain operational even if there is a loss of WAN connectivity. SAS reduces the cost and complexity of remote office installations and significantly improves a customer's communication resilience and reliability.

About Aastra USA Inc.

Aastra USA Inc., a subsidiary of Aastra Technologies Limited, is a leader in IP communications products including IP-PBX systems, standards based telephones, Unified Communications and contact center applications. Our network solutions meet the needs of customers who require reliability, scalability, integration and IP. We offer a range of SIP phones and a full suite of productivity applications that users can share across an entire network, like Unified Communications, Web and Audio Conferencing and Contact Center solutions. With over 29 years of experience delivering PBX and contact center systems to some of the largest and most demanding companies in the world, Aastra USA Inc. is now bringing that expertise to companies of all sizes. Aastra USA Inc. has been responsible for many key milestones in the industry, including the first commercial IP-PBX for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), later sold to a larger technology company. This type of vision is still very much alive at Aastra today. For more information, visit http://www.aastrausa.com.

About AudioCodes

AudioCodes Ltd. (NasdaqGS:AUDC - News) provides innovative, reliable and cost-effective Voice over IP (VoIP) technology, Voice Network Products, and Value Added Applications to Service Providers, Enterprises, OEMs, Network Equipment Providers and System Integrators worldwide. AudioCodes provides a diverse range of flexible, comprehensive media gateway, and media processing enabling technologies based on VoIPerfect(tm) -- AudioCodes' underlying, best-of-breed, core media architecture. The company is a market leader in VoIP equipment, focused on VoIP Media Gateway, Media Server, Session Border Controllers (SBC), Security Gateways and Value Added Application network products. AudioCodes has deployed tens of millions of media gateway and media server channels globally over the past ten years and is a key player in the emerging best-of-breed, IMS based, VoIP market. The Company is a VoIP technology leader focused on quality and interoperability, with a proven track record in product and network interoperability with industry leaders in the Service Provider and Enterprise space. AudioCodes Voice Network Products feature media gateway and media server platforms for packet-based applications in the converged, wireline, wireless, broadband access, cable, enhanced voice services, video, and Enterprise IP Telephony markets. AudioCodes' headquarters and R&D are located in Israel with an additional R&D facility in the U.S. Other AudioCodes' offices are located in Europe, India, the Far East, and Latin America. For more information on AudioCodes, visit http://www.audiocodes.com/

Statements concerning AudioCodes' business outlook or future economic performance; product introductions and plans and objectives related thereto; and statements concerning assumptions made or expectations as to any future events, conditions, performance or other matters, are ``forward-looking statements'' as that term is defined under U.S. Federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements are subject to various risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated in such statements. These risks, uncertainties and factors include, but are not limited to: the effect of global economic conditions in general and conditions in AudioCodes' industry and target markets in particular; shifts in supply and demand; market acceptance of new products and continuing products' demand; the impact of competitive products and pricing on AudioCodes' and its customers' products and markets; timely product and technology development/upgrades and the ability to manage changes in market conditions as needed; possible disruptions from acquisitions; the integration of acquired companies' products and operations into AudioCodes' business; and other factors detailed in AudioCodes' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AudioCodes assumes no obligation to update the information in this release.

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