Interwise Receives Internet Telephony Magazine's 2005 ''Internet Telephony Excellence'' Award; ECP Connect Creates New ROI from VoIP Infrastructures, Enhances Business Productivity While Cutting Legacy Conferencing Costs

Business Wire, Oct 20, 2005

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Interwise(R) Inc., announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation' INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) magazine (www.itmag.com) has named Interwise ECP Connect(R) as a recipient of its Internet Telephony Excellence Award for 2005.

Interwise's award-winning ECP Connect delivers complete, unlimited voice, Web, and video conferencing and collaboration for a fixed price. The solution improves business efficiency by enhancing communications for employees, accelerating the ROI from VoIP investments, eliminating per-minute conferencing charges and improving the overall reliability of critical online meetings and conference calls. ECP Connect can be flexibly deployed as an on-site software solution and/or a secure hosted service. It integrates with leading desktop email and calendaring tool and can be customized to an organization's specific requirements. ECP Connect is a leading choice of Global 2000 companies, with more worldwide deployments of 5,000-plus seats than any other Enterprise Conferencing solution.

"The editorial staff of Internet Telephony magazine is proud to announce the winners of the first-ever Internet Telephony Excellence Awards. These companies are as varied as there are products that fit under the IP telephony umbrella. But the one thing that binds them all together is that they all excel at delivering solutions that solve customers' needs," indicated Rich Tehrani, Editor-in-Chief of Internet Telephony.

"The VoIP space is hot these days, and it's easy to get caught up in the hype associated with such a buzzing marketplace. However, the winners of the first-ever Internet Telephony Excellence Award are not merely "me-too" players. Interwise has proven to the editors of Internet Telephony that ECP Connect excels in the VoIP/IP Telephony industry, and most importantly, its customers are willing to speak up and offer themselves as references," said Greg Galitzine, Editorial Director of Internet Telephony.

"Our customers have validated that we are using VoIP in a new way, to revolutionize enterprise benefits from voice and Web conferencing as well as collaboration," said Frank Zvi, Interwise CEO. "Customers are leveraging the combination of our native-IP solution and our unique, unlimited usage for a fixed price business model, to put voice and web collaboration on every desktop across the enterprise - like email. This approach is transforming conferencing and collaboration from an expensive external service to an on-site, enterprise communications utility that dramatically reduces costs, increases security, and accelerates key business processes."

The Internet Telephony Excellence Award winners for 2005 appear in the October issue of Internet Telephony magazine.

About Interwise

Interwise is the leader in complete Enterprise Conferencing -- unlimited voice, Web, and video conferencing in one integrated platform for a fixed price. Interwise's fixed price / unlimited usage business model and enterprise-class technology combine to make it easy for companies to replace multiple conferencing and collaboration products with a single, integrated solution that can reduce overall conferencing expenses by up to 50%. Leading IT industry publications and analyst firms have recognized Interwise for changing the way conferencing is done by replacing unpredictable per-minute and overage charges with a complete solution that can be deployed as broadly and economically as e-mail. Interwise is a privately held company, backed by investors that include Lazard Technology Partners, UBS Capital, GE Capital, JP Morgan, Leeds Weld, and NTT. The company sells to and supports customers globally through a direct sales force, distributors, value-added resellers, communications service providers and network-oriented systems integrators.

About ECP Connect

Interwise's award-winning ECP Connect delivers complete, unlimited voice, Web, and video conferencing and collaboration for a fixed price. ECP Connect combines voice conferencing, Web meetings, eLearning, Web seminars / broadcasts, and recordings in a single, integrated, IP-based solution that delivers enterprise-class security, reliability and scalability. ECP Connect can be flexibly deployed as an on-site software solution, a secure hosted service, or an integrated combination of both customized to an organization's specific requirements. ECP Connect is a leading choice of Global 2000 companies, with more worldwide deployments of 5,000-plus seats than any other Enterprise Conferencing solution on the market.

About TMC(TM)

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes two print magazines: Customer Interaction Solutions, and Internet Telephony; five digital publications, SIP Magazine, Speech-World, WiFi Telephony Magazine, VoIP Developer, WiMAX Magazine; and the online publications TMCnet.com, Planet PDA Magazine, WiFi Revolution, Alternative Power and BiometriTech. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The VoIP Developer Conference, Speech-World Conference, IP Contact Center Summit and The Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit. TMCnet.com publishes more than 25 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit its Web site at www.tmcnet.com.