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Waveleap Communications Deploys Cantata Technology’s IMG 1010 Integrated Media and Signaling VoIP Gateway to Offer New Conversion Services

IMG 1010’s Robust Transcoding Capabilities Enable Waveleap to Provide Customers Access to Virtually Any Carrier VoIP Network Worldwide While Delivering a Five Month ROI

NEEDHAM, MASS., Jan. 24, 2007—Cantata Technology™, one of the world’s leading independent providers of enabling communications technology, today announced that Waveleap Communications, a premier provider of wholesale IP-based call termination and conversion services, has deployed the IMG 1010™ Integrated Media and Signaling VoIP Gateway in its global network.
Waveleap selected Cantata’s IMG 1010 as a crucial component of its new Xvon.net service, which provides real-time, outsourced conversion services (“transcoding”) among the popular voice compression protocols (G.711, G.723 and G.729). Xvon.net provides this service to carriers, aggregators, calling card companies, and the enterprise.

Cantata worked closely with Sansay, Inc., a leading developer of VoIP session controllers for service providers, whose technology was deployed by Waveleap in 2006, to ensure easy configuration and smooth interoperability between Waveleap’s mission critical session border controller (SBC), call routing, and transcoding functions.

Waveleap also uses the IMG 1010 to offer its Xvon.net transcoding service to members of the Voice Peering Fabric (VPF). The VPF, operated by Stealth Communications, is the world’s largest peering network for voice communications and telephony services and functions as an exchange, or “meet-point,” for service providers and enterprises.

Xvon.net allows carriers and others to accept call traffic from virtually any source and terminate that traffic on virtually any carrier worldwide. For example, if a customer uses a network that supports the G.729 protocol while the selected carrier or peer only accepts G.711, Xvon.net can provide a seamless interconnection between the two networks. Waveleap and Cantata eliminate the need for customers and carriers to deploy additional equipment to communicate between disparate networks.

“After a thorough evaluation of several leading media gateway products, we selected the IMG 1010 for its rich transcoding features, attractive cost of ownership, and ability to easily interconnect with the VPF,” said Jeff Ellentuck, chief executive officer, Waveleap Communications. “No other commercially available media gateway product could match the flexibility or the rapid five month ROI that we expect to achieve with the IMG 1010. We fully intend to add more IMG 1010 units to our network in the future.”

The award-winning IMG 1010 is an integrated media and signaling gateway that provides any-to-any network connectivity, enabling delivery of SIP services into legacy SS7/PRI networks, as well as IP-to-IP transcoding to connect IP networks using different protocols. The IMG 1010 offers the widest range of network interfaces in a compact, high density 1U package, allowing service providers to deploy applications across fixed and mobile networks worldwide.

“Waveleap’s selection of Cantata’s IMG 1010 continues to reflect the product’s growing influence and strong market traction among global communications service providers,” said Marc Zionts, chief executive officer, Cantata Technology, Inc. “In little more than a year of commercial availability, the IMG 1010 has already been deployed by more than 55 carriers in 20 countries, spanning five continents. We expect that deployment of the IMG 1010 as a transcoding resource and Waveleap’s offering of the service to members of the Voice Peering Fabric will further increase demand for the product in 2007 and beyond.”

About Sansay
Sansay, Inc. is a leading developer of VOIP infrastructure systems for service providers worldwide. The company's VOIP session controllers for inter-carrier/peering and subscriber access applications deliver superior performance, features, stability and scalability, allowing service providers to improve quality, reduce costs and meet regulatory requirements while gaining control over a wide range of VOIP applications. The company’s products are commercially deployed in domestic/international wholesale, calling card, residential and business VOIP service, call/contact center and e-911 call routing.

Founded in 2002, Sansay's team is the most experienced VOIP infrastructure development team in the industry, including the co-founder and several founding technical executives from Nuera Communications, a pioneer in carrier VOIP softswitch and gateway development and deployment. Sansay's key executives have worked closely together for over a decade conceiving, developing, deploying and supporting the highest quality products in the VOIP infrastructure market. Sansay is a privately held company with headquarters in San Diego, CA.

About Waveleap Communications
Waveleap is a premier provider of IP-based (VoIP and VON) local, long distance and international origination, termination, conferencing, and conversion services. Waveleap serves carriers, ITSPs, aggregators, call centers, and the enterprise, including HIPAA subject entities. Waveleap also provides services to small and medium sized businesses, as well as professional firms, through its premier partner network. For more information visit http://www.waveleap.com

About Cantata Technology
Cantata Technology, established in 2006 through the combination of Brooktrout Technology® and Excel Switching Corporation, provides enabling communications hardware and software that empowers the creation and delivery of anytime, anywhere IP-based communications applications. Leveraging more than 20 years of experience, Cantata offers the broadest range of products, along with a worldwide network of partners that allows service provider and enterprise customers to develop new products, introduce new services and cost-effectively transition networks to IP. Headquartered in Needham, Mass., Cantata maintains multiple locations worldwide in North America, Asia and Europe. For more information, visit http://www.cantata.com.

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