Alcatel-Lucent and AudioCodes Collaborate on Session Border Controllers

AudioCodes, a leading provider of Voice over IP technologies, today announced it is working with Alcatel-Lucent through its Alcatel-Lucent Application Partner Program to re-enforce their collaboration on delivering secure voice network solutions.

The integration of AudioCodes' Mediant family of Enterprise Session Border Controllers with Alcatel-Lucent SIP solutions for enterprises, including OpenTouch(TM) Business Edition and the OmniPCX(TM) Enterprise Communication Server, provides enterprises with the security, session mediation and service level assurance required to connect to SIP service providers and to connect remote users to enterprise SIP applications, during maintaining interoperability and manageability.

"Mid-sized businesses want more innovative multimedia communications for their employees and partners during on-site or off-site. Migrating telephony access to SIP will enable them to enjoy cost savings and benefit from new multimedia collaboration services. By providing enhanced security, quality assurance and SIP mediation, Enterprise SBC will accelerate the seamless and secure migration of mid-sized enterprises to SIP Trunking," said Nicolas De Kouchkovsky, CMO of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise.

Part of the Alcatel-Lucent Application Partner Program

"We are very pleased to be a part of the Alcatel-Lucent Application Partner Program and be selected as Alcatel-Lucent's E-SBC of choice for mid-sized businesses, supporting a vision of openness and connectivity," stated Nimrod Borovsky, Vice President of Marketing at AudioCodes. "Our E-SBCs provide Alcatel-Lucent clients capabilities just as perimeter defense, SIP normalization and transcoding which are necessary in facilitating SIP Trunking services and connectivity with Microsoft Unified Communications platforms."

The Mediant E-SBCs will be joining the list of existing tested interoperability between AudioCodes products -- including the MediaPack 11x and 20x VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Gateways and the Mediant 600, 1000, 2000, 3000 and 5000 Media Gateways -- and Alcatel-Lucent solutions just as OmniPCX Enterprise, Alcatel-Lucent OmniPCX Office(TM), as then as the Genesys(TM) SIP Server.

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 pursuant to this agreement 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, nevertheless 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 clients' products and markets; timely product and innovation 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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