Telefonica to Offer Hosted Business VoIP Services with Session Border Control Solutions from Netrake; Netrake and NEC Brasil Partner to Deploy Telefonica VoIP Service

Business Wire, March 14, 2006

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Netrake today announced that its nCite leading Session Border Solution was selected by Telefonica, the world's third largest operator and the largest fixed line operator in Latin America, to deliver new hosted VoIP services for its clients in Brazil.

The Netrake nCite session border controller provides the security, scale, and capacity features that are necessary for the delivery of high quality business VoIP services. Netrake's Secure Edge Architecture enables many of the key features in this deployment including; robust denial of service (DoS) protection, FW/NAT traversal, topology hiding, access control lists, intrusion prevention, and defense against malicious attacks and overloads such as Rogue RTP, malformed packets, and spoofing.

"We are pleased to be working with Netrake and Telefonica to implement new hosted VoIP services for its clients in Brazil," said Renato Pattaro, NGN solutions manager, NEC. "NEC and Netrake have worked together with Telefonica for many months to validate and certify this solution for Brazil. Considering the consistent partnership with Netrake, NEC is able to offer the best solution available in the market to our customers all over Latin America."

The agreement reached with Telefonica Group was initiated through Netrake's partnership with NEC do Brasil who handles solution sales, implementation and technical support. This announcement continues to highlight the support and success of this relationship in the South American market.

"Netrake solutions are designed to help our customers protect their infrastructure and their customers," said Terry Orosco, vice president, Netrake. "We are committed to supporting Telefonica in securing and scaling its networks to support future high quality IP services and applications."

About NETRAKE

Netrake is a leading provider to fixed and mobile service providers for real-time delivery of voice and multimedia solutions across IP networks. Utilizing Netrake's session border controllers and security gateways, service providers can leverage market leading security capabilities, reliability, scalability, and feature richness to interconnect and secure networks and users. Netrake is a privately held company, headquartered in Plano, Texas. For more information, contact us at 1-800-254-6177 or visit www.netrake.com.