Kentrox® Receives ''Product of the Year'' Award for 2005 from INTERNET TELEPHONY® Magazine; Q1300 QoS Appliance Honored for Outstanding Innovation

Business Wire, Jan 4, 2006

HILLSBORO, Ore. -- Kentrox announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC(R))'s INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) magazine (www.itmag.com) has named the Q1300 QoS Appliance as a recipient of a 2005 Product of the Year Award. INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority Since 1998(TM).

The Kentrox Q1300 QoS Appliance is an easy-to-use device providing Quality of Service (QoS) support to protect Voice over IP (VoIP) and other critical applications. The QoS appliance monitors and prioritizes traffic to manage bandwidth without the need to replace existing routers.

"Kentrox is extremely pleased to be chosen for the Product of the Year award," says Dan Murray, VP of Marketing at Kentrox. "QoS is becoming increasing important for many organizations to manage VoIP, video, and other business critical systems."

The Q1300 QoS Appliance helps organizations by:

--Protecting critical applications and managing WAN bandwidth

--Monitoring and prioritizing traffic

--Providing Quality of Service support

"Each year INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine bestows its Product of the Year awards on companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements. Kentrox has demonstrated to the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY that its products are committed to quality and innovation while addressing the real needs in the marketplace," said Rich Tehrani, Group Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

The Product of the Year Award winners for 2005 will be highlighted in the January and February 2006 issues of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. Kentrox will also be exhibiting the Q1300 QoS Appliance at the Internet Telephony show in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

About Kentrox

Kentrox is a supplier of high-speed network access equipment, including the recently-introduced QoS appliance, QoS access routers, DSU/CSUs, ATM access concentrators, and wireless base station products. Its extensive customer base includes enterprises and small-to-medium offices, carriers, wireless service providers and government entities worldwide. Kentrox is based in Hillsboro, Oregon. Contact the company at 800-733-5511 or via the Web at www.kentrox.com.

About TMC(R)

Celebrating more than 30 years as a leading publisher, Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC(R)) publishes Customer Inter@ction Solutions(R) and INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) magazines, Web portal TMCnet.com, and the online publications SIP(TM), Speech-World(TM), VoIP Developer(TM), WiFI Telephony(TM), WiMAX(TM), Alternative Power(TM) and BiometriTech(TM). TMC(R) is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC(R) Labs. TMC(R) produces INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) Conference & EXPO, VoIP Developer Conference(TM) and Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit(TM). TMC offers live and online certification programs through TMC University. TMCnet.com publishes more than 14 online newsletters. Visit www.tmcnet.com for details.