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Televersal Announces Successful Deployment of Excel Switching Corporation’s IMG 1010 Integrated VoIP Gateway

-Global VoIP Services Provider Reduces Costs by Leveraging Excel’s Integrated SS7 Capabilities -

Istanbul, Turkey — September 20, 2005-- Televersal, a global VoIP-based telecommunications services provider, announced today that it has deployed Excel Switching Corporation’s Integrated Media Gateway 1010 (IMG 1010) in its worldwide network. Televersal is leveraging the IMG 1010 to provide VoIP-SS7 termination in front of its Nortel DMS 100 systems, supporting the carrier’s migration to an all-IP network by providing robust transcoding capabilities.

"Excel’s IMG 1010 is the ideal media gateway solution to meet Televersal’s aggressive plans and timeline to transition to an all-IP network" said Can Kiral, Chief Executive Officer, Televersal. "The IMG 1010 was easy to install and deploy, and has performed flawlessly with our existing network.

According to Engin Yesil, Chairman, Televersal, “The IMG 1010 will provide significant business advantages to Televersal as its integrated SS7 functionality speeds our time to market and simultaneously decreases the company’s PSTN interconnection costs, resulting in a rapid return on investment."

Excel's IMG 1010 offers service providers unparalleled performance, reliability and flexibility to introduce services across fixed and mobile networks worldwide. With its compact 1U package, integrated SS7 and flexible architecture, the IMG 1010 is a true carrier-grade VoIP gateway and/or VoIP transcoder that enables service providers to reduce costs while improving service quality.

"We’re extremely pleased with the results of the IMG 1010 deployment at Televersal,” said Michael Twomey, vice president, product planning and management, Excel Switching Corporation. Televersal is leveraging the capabilities of the IMG 1010 exactly as it was designed, and as a result is lowering interconnection costs and improving service flexibility. “

About Televersal
With major stations in Miami, London, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Istanbul, Singapore, Vienna, and the Middle East, Televersal provides its partners full access to more than 200,000 ports worldwide and capacity of over two billion minutes per month. Together with its major partner, Ntera, a leading Internet Telephony Service Provider operating in North America and Mexico, Televersal now offers an international switching capacity of four billion minutes monthly.

About Excel Switching Corporation
Founded in 1988, Excel Switching Corporation is a leading provider of carrier-class media gateways, media servers, signaling gateways, and enhanced service platforms for original equipment manufacturers, value-added resellers, and service providers. As a profitable company with more than 8,500 systems deployed in more than 80 countries, Excel addresses carrier needs for profitable applications by delivering a family of platforms that bridge fixed, mobile, and IP networks, thereby lowering costs, improving call quality, and simplifying network operations. By working closely with its partners, Excel supplies service providers with highly reliable, localized solutions designed to meet their immediate and future needs. For more information, visit www.ExcelSwiching.com.

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Excel Switching Corp.
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