Castelle Announces Integration of Its Network Fax Servers with Equitrac Cost Recovery and Print Management Solutions

Business Wire, Nov 21, 2006

MORGAN HILL, Calif. -- Castelle[R] (Nasdaq:CSTL), a leader in 'all-in-one' network fax solutions for the business and enterprise markets, today announced that its FaxPress[TM] family of network fax servers integrate with Equitrac cost recovery and print management solutions.

"For many customers, especially those in the legal market, cost recovery is an important part of their business," said Scott McDonald, President and CEO of Castelle. "The integration of Castelle's FaxPress, FaxPress Premier[TM] and FaxPress Enterprise[TM] fax servers with Equitrac's cost recovery and print management solutions enable customers to easily control fax communications and recover billable expenses. Customers have the security and benefit of network faxing in an integrated workflow environment."

Castelle network fax servers provide bill back support, allowing a bill back code to be assigned to every outgoing fax. These bill back codes are written to the FaxPress transaction log where they can be exported for use in the Equitrac cost recovery system. Equitrac recently completed parsers for both FaxPress and FaxPress Plus[TM], Castelle's software suites that run on FaxPress, FaxPress Premier and FaxPress Enterprise fax servers. These parsers allow import of the FaxPress/FaxPress Plus transaction logs into Equitrac Professional and PartnerServer software.

"We are very pleased to be providing the advanced capabilities of Equitrac's award-winning cost recovery and print management solutions to business and enterprise customers of Castelle's network fax servers," said Michael Rich, CEO of Equitrac. "IT administrators used to managing desktop and network fax queues, creating reports and viewing fax archives can now enjoy automated integration of Castelle fax servers with Equitrac's powerful tools for discovering and recovering fax-related billable costs in the office environment."

Castelle is currently working with Equitrac on an interface to the new Equitrac Professional 5.1 software, which will allow direct real time export of bill back codes to the Equitrac 5 database.

About Equitrac

Equitrac Corporation is the recognized leader and most trusted name worldwide in intelligent cost recovery and print management solutions. Backed by an unmatched R&D program and the largest team of cost-recovery experts in the world, Equitrac enjoys preferred technology partnerships with the world's leading providers of hardware and software solutions for the office environment. From the Fortune Global 100 to college campuses, within the AMLAW 200 and in municipalities across the globe, Equitrac solutions are at work helping organizations recover costs, reduce waste, increase returns and maximize efficiency in printers, copiers and multifunction devices. For more information on Equitrac, visit www.equitrac.com.

About Castelle

Castelle (Nasdaq:CSTL), a market leader in 'all-in-one' network fax solutions for business and enterprise, offers organizations every possible network fax option: desktop faxing, production faxing, fax and email integration, workflow application integration, and tools for developing custom fax applications. FaxPress[TM], FaxPress Premier[TM] and FaxPress Enterprise[TM] network fax servers include the FaxPress or FaxPress Plus[TM] software suite that enables administrators and users to perform functions such as managing fax queues, creating reports, and viewing fax archives.

Castelle products are designed to be easy to use and maintain, and provide an economical way for companies to share resources over the network. Castelle was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Morgan Hill, California. Its products are available through a worldwide network of distributors, resellers, and online retailers. Visit Castelle online at www.castelle.com.

FaxPress[TM], FaxPress Premier[TM], FaxPress Enterprise[TM] and FaxPress Plus[TM] are trademarks of Castelle. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Forward-Looking Statements

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