CT EXPO, Los Angeles, CA - March 6, 2000: Comuniq, Inc. introduced another recent addition to The Ultimate IP product family: The UltimateIP™ Streaming Media Application Server (SMAS) UMS subsystem.

The platform is designed for manufacturers and integrators of VoIP and Unified Messaging Server (UMS) equipment for customer premises or public network.

The UltimateIP SMAS H.323 platform seamlessly integrates Comuniq’s suite of VoIP signal processing and protocol software with Comuniq’s UltimateIP E1/T1 resource board for PCI and cPCI systems. The services offered on the board include DTMF signal processing, voice playback/record and T.30/T.37 fax. The product also supports VoIP codecs including G.711, G.723.1, G.729A.

Third party services for speech recognition, text-to-speech and speech-to-text software may be easily integrated and extends the services available through Comuniq’s open Streaming Media API (SMAPI). Comuniq’s open Streaming Media API (SMAPI). SMAPI delivers services to applications on multiple target architectures and operating system environments.

The software operates with The UltimateIP SMAS E1/T1 quad span PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) - which delivers up to 120 x 64 kbps channels capacity of IP-switched multimedia (voice, video and data) in a single PMC Module. The PMC module operates in either a PCI or cPCI architecture.

The Ultimate SMAS UMS subsystem supports Windows NT, Solaris and Linux Operating Systems.

The UltimateIP SMAS UMS subsystem continues Comuniq’s tradition of delivering products with a highly flexible, standards based, scaleable architecture; an open API to ease application integration; and engineering services for delivering solutions customized to individual customer needs.

Now Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), System Integrators (SIs) and Value Added Resellers (VARs) can bring to market VoIP and UMS products faster and more profitably than ever before.

Lou D’Alo, Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing, Comuniq, Inc, said "The UMS market segment is increasingly requiring more functionality in less space at increasingly lower prices. This latest release of Unified Messaging Server capability on our high-density quad span E1/T1 PMC module offers the smallest, most highly integrated Unified Messaging Server on the market at a remarkable price point. Now OEMs and System Integrators can offer their markets up to 480 channels 64kbps bandwidth of UMS functionality in a single cPCI slot more profitably and competitively than ever before."

About Comuniq, Inc.

Comuniq, Inc. markets a family of high-density, high-performance, flexible, scalable and affordable communications solutions to equipment manufacturers, system integrators and value-added resellers. Comuniq’s flagship product family, The UltimateIP™, is a standards-based, open-systems platform using an industry-standard PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) form factor. The UltimateIP software portfolio includes modules for signal processing (G.711, G.723.1, G.729A, G.165, Fax, Modem, DTMF, R1/R2, etc.,) and access protocols (H.323, SS7, ISDN, MFC R1/R2, etc.) The UltimateIP hardware uses native-IP packet switching technology to deliver Multimedia Voice, Video and Data over the industry-standard PCI or (Compact PCI) bus.

Comuniq designs, manufactures and markets it’s products worldwide through engineering and sales locations in the USA, Norway, France, and Asia.

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More information about Comuniq is available at www.comuniq.com or contact:

Tiffany Hobson
Marketing Communications
Comuniq, Inc.

Tel: +1 605-348-7650
Fax: +1 605-348-4030
Email: tiffany@comuniq.com