IP Unity Enhances Mereon™ Unified Messaging and Conferencing Applications

Leading multimedia enhanced services software provides industry’s best click-to-dial, click-to-conference, personalization and access-anywhere features, conference scalability and powerful legacy integration

SUPERCOMM 2005, CHICAGO, Ill — June 7, 2005— IP Unity, a leader in carrier-grade media servers, application servers and real-time multimedia applications for IP and TDM networks, today launched release 3.0, a host of key upgrades and significant enhancements to the flagship messaging, applications server and conferencing applications software on its newly-branded Mereon 6000 Media Server.

Mereon 3.0 applications now deliver extensive feature breadth including personalized availability, speech recognition, GUI-based click-to-dial and click-to-conference, MM-3 message integration, conferencing scalability to 1500 simultaneous participants and the most comprehensive access options and legacy messaging feature integration in the industry. These upgrades will be generally available early third quarter of 2005.

Customers value the carrier grade Mereon 6000 Media Server for its ability to support a powerful breadth of applications and flexible feature sets. IP Unity has now boosted the Mereon Unified Messaging, Conferencing and Applications Server software functionality, value and scope of multiservice delivery, to include

• One-stop message access and message portability: All messages (email, voicemail, faxes) available via graphical and telephone user interfaces (GUI and TUI) as well as web mail; message delivery to any phone or MMS delivery device, consolidation of mailboxes and advanced message notification
• Personalized availability features: Find Me – Follow Me, automated speech recognition for voice navigation, privacy screening functionality
• “Click-to” Functionality: Click-to-Dial enables outdial directly from a PC-based address book, and Click-to-Conference enables instant web/audio conferencing with multiple parties directly from a PC-based address book
• Celebrity Greetings: Customized greetings, uploadable from a web portal, API or TUI
• Message Application Flexibility: Listen-only mailbox configuration for broadcast to closed user groups, time-sensitive information distribution, scheduled notification
• Legacy Platform Integration: AMIS-A and VPIM 2.0 support for seamless inter-networking to legacy voicemail systems, emulation of embedded voicemail menus, rich administrative functions, integration of legacy message stores, text-to-speech enhancements and fraud prevention features
• Web and Audio Conferencing Scalability: Simultaneous users up to 1500 callers on one web/audio conference bridge, flexible voting and privacy features, full integration with MS Windows, Macintosh and UNIX platforms
• No Single Point of Failure: Redundancy at all levels of the solution

IP Unity’s Mereon Media Server has been deployed in 30 countries for messaging, conferencing, IVR, announcements, prepaid and debit enhanced services. IP Unity has been selected for very large-scale service rollouts by leading RBOCs, top-tier cable operators and influential, high-growth international wireless and incumbent carriers.

“The Mereon family of products has a powerful track record of helping carriers to generate customer loyalty and revenues via must-have enhanced services like messaging and interactive voice response. Today’s feature enhancements make the platform instrumental in driving new service revenues and further improving ROI on carrier infrastructures,” said IP Unity CEO and Chair Arun Sobti. “Our latest results show extremely strong expansion within existing customer deployments. We know the economic benefits are real for our carrier customers, as we see the traffic and revenues enabled by the Mereon platform growing quarterly.”

“Application servers and media servers play a key role in bringing much sought-after new services to market -- also the chief driver for carrier adoption of VoIP,” said Kevin Mitchell, Directing Analyst, Service Provider Voice & Data, Infonetics Research. “Messaging and conferencing are two highly-demanded feature sets by carriers and are key building blocks for services. End-users have shown a willingness to pay for these services. This new feature set shows that IP Unity continues to enhance their offerings in this critical market segment.”

The company has also announced its three-phase IMS capabilities delivery roadmap, and the introduction of the Mereon 3000 Media Server, targeted to smaller carrier and enterprise deployments. IP Unity will demonstrate new technology implementations at SUPERCOMM 2005, in booth 74050.

About Movius
Movius Interactive Corporation gives people the power to enrich their lives through viable innovations that transform the way they interact with information, media and each other. Formerly under the name IP Unity Glenayre, Movius is a recognized leader in messaging, collaboration and mobile media solutions for service providers worldwide.

For more information, please visit www.moviuscorp.com.

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