LOD, Israel, March 5, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- AudioCodes (Nasdaq:AUDC), a leading provider of Voice over Packet (VoP) technologies and Voice Network products, and 012 Smile.Communications (NASDAQ:SMLC), a leading Service Provider in its field in Israel that provides customers with a wide range of international communication services for telephony and the Internet, today announced that AudioCodes MediaPack(tm)-202 (MP-202) residential gateway has been added to the 012 product line for the recently launched nationwide Telephony service.
The MP-202 residential gateway enables calls to be made over the internet infrastructure instead of using a legacy telephone line. This gateway offers a quick time-to-market, cost-effective, solution for leveraging 012 Smile.Communications existing customer base. In addition to traditional services such as follow-me, caller ID, and call waiting, 012 provides its subscribers with advanced, value-added IP-based services such as voicemail and voicemail to email. In addition, 012 uses AudioCodes business gateways to connect business customers to their VoIP network.
"AudioCodes is one of our preferred suppliers of voice and data IP-based solutions for residential and SOHO customers, as we searched for a gateway that complies with various access infrastructures (cable and DSL)," stated Yaackov Nadborny, Vice President Marketing, 012 Smile. "Our alliance is a result of AudioCodes' high level of customer support and overall top product quality and high performance data routing capacity of the MP-202 residential gateway, required by data savvy residential customers."
"We are pleased that a leading and innovative ITSP in Israel has chosen our MP-202 residential gateway for deployment in a large customer base," said Lior Aldema, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for AudioCodes. "Our best-of-breed, field-proven VoIP residential gateway has given us the ability to meet 012's demanding criteria and to offer large scale deployments in the marketplace."
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Part of the MediaPack series of analog VoIP gateways, the MP-20x series of residential gateways are cost-effective, cutting edge products, which allow connecting ordinary analog telephones or fax machines to a Voice over Broadband (VoB) service. The MP-20x series is designed for the rapidly growing residential and Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) VoIP market. The MP-20x Series is designed for full interoperability with leading Softswitches and SIP Servers for deployment in various network environments.
About AudioCodes
AudioCodes Ltd. (Nasdaq:AUDC) 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 are located in Israel with R&D in the U.S. Other AudioCodes' offices are located in Europe, India, the Far East, and Latin America. For further information on AudioCodes, visit 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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About 012 Smile
012 Smile is one of Israel's leading communications companies with a large base of internet and international telephony customers. 012 Smile was Israel's first company to offer domestic Telephony over Broadband (VOB) services and is the first to have received a permanent VOB license.