SipStorm Selects Ubiquity for Enhanced VOIP Services; Wholesale IP Telephony and Enhanced Services Enabled by Ubiquity's VOIP Plus

Business Wire, Oct 19, 2004

BOSTON -- SipStorm, a VOIP and enhanced communications services provider, today announced that they deployed Ubiquity Software's VOIP Plus solution as the foundation for "Instant Communications Company," a wholesale VOIP service launching next month that allows anyone to easily offer a full featured phone service to their customers. SipStorm worked closely with Ubiquity's Professional Services Organization to utilize VOIP Plus to develop a suite of enhanced applications, including unified messaging, call management and voice activated dialing that will be offered as part of the service.

SipStorm was founded by the core leadership and innovation team that changed the telecommunications landscape with novel services and award winning applications while at Z-Tel Communications. With over 100 years of combined software and telephony experience, the SipStorm team is proven and ready to set the pace in the new world of telecommunications.

"Bringing customers beyond vanilla VOIP is critical to competing effectively in the telecommunications marketplace. The leveraged innovation and experience from the folks at SipStorm, combined with Ubiquity's proven SIP Application Server and professional services experts creates a winning combination for delivering enhanced VOIP services," said Danny Klein, Yankee Group.

"Instant Communications Company" leverages this experience by pulling together all the pieces needed to get started in the residential voice over broadband market: including peering agreements that allow you to offer nationwide phone numbers and PSTN origination and termination; OSS capabilities including web ordering and customer support; and back office functions such as billing, collections, and order fulfillment.

"Ubiquity's SIP Application Server is extremely reliable, flexible and was central to helping us develop products on time and on budget," said James Gledhill, Strategic Partnering at SipStorm. "We worked closely with their Professional Services team and trusted their expertise throughout the process."

VOIP Plus is a cost effective, highly scalable and feature rich solution that allows service providers to build, deploy and manage IP voice "plus" enhanced services. The solution enables new business models, pricing strategies and service packages that are difficult or impossible to match in the circuit switched world and helps service providers capitalize on the innovative rapidly growing VOIP market. For emerging competitive carriers, VOIP Plus lowers the barriers to entry and provides a means of rapidly bringing to market new SIP-based VOIP services. For non-facilities based CLECs, VOIP Plus provides an alternative to leasing network elements from the incumbent and enables a transition from UNE-P to voice over broadband.

"We are delighted to serve as the foundation of a highly innovative VOIP service from SipStorm," said Jeff Liebl, VP of Marketing at Ubiquity. "We look forward to a long and creative partnership that will help SipStorm deliver highly reliable, compelling wholesale services to the residential service provider market."

To learn more about Ubiquity's VOIP Plus solution, visit www.ubiquitysoftware.com/solutions/voipplus.php.> About Ubiquity Software

Ubiquity Software Corporation develops and markets SIP-based communications software to service providers, ISVs and OEMs around the world. Its award-winning SIP Application Server (SIP A/S) is both a carrier-class deployment platform and a programmable, standards-based application creation environment (ACE) that allows customers to develop and deploy next-generation converged communications services. Ubiquity assists customers to accelerate the creation of customized SIP applications through its expert Professional Services Organization. The company has corporate offices in the US, UK, China, Japan and Canada. For more information, please visit www.ubiquitysoftware.com or email info@ubiquitysoftware.com.

About SipStorm

SipStorm is an integrated IP communications provider whose mission is "to create and deploy intelligent convergent communication technology that will fundamentally change the way most people live and work." SipStorm offers VoIP, enhanced services, and OSS capabilities in both wholesale and resale packages; these components can be used a la carte or combined into an "Instant Communications Company", enabling any company to become a cutting-edge communications company in as little as a few weeks. The SipStorm team has over a hundred years of experience building award-winning communications and enhanced services and is continually working to reinvent communications for the benefit of our partners and their customers. For more information, please visit http://www.sipstorm.com or email info@sipstorm.com.