Geckotech Receives 'Cisco Powered Network' Designation for Managed Unified Communications Service; Geckotech Driving Growth of Managed Unified Communications Services Throughout the Midwestern United States

Business Wire, Sept 21, 2006

CHICAGO -- Geckotech, a leading provider of managed IP voice Communications services, today announced that its managed Unified Communications solution, Geckoconnect(TM), has been given the Cisco Powered Network designation.

Geckotech's target market is small and mid-sized business throughout the Midwestern United States. Geckotech provides a managed Unified Communications solution to businesses with 10-250 employees.

Geckotech provides turn-key managed voice and data solutions to the small and mid-sized business using exclusively Cisco products, including the 7200 Series Routers, 3500 Series Switches and AS5400 Series Universal Gateways at the core of its network. Customer sites are outfitted with Cisco 1721 and 1841 routers, Catalyst 2950 switches, PIX firewalls and 7900 Series Unified IP phones. The result is a fully managed IP telephony solution that is designed to help ensure reliability, scalability and security for customers.

"We have built our VoIP network using Cisco equipment to work to ensure that our customers receive the highest level of reliability and stability," said Josh Robbins, managing partner of Geckotech LLC. "With an end-to-end Cisco network in place, we can focus on providing a high level of personalized managed services to our customers."

"Cisco and Geckotech share a vision for the development and delivery of advanced managed Unified IP communications services, and we are pleased to welcome them to the Cisco Powered Network Program," said Kirt Jorgenson, director of the Cisco Powered Network Program.

Geckotech's participation in the Cisco Powered Network Program demonstrates to businesses its ability to provide industry-leading managed services that are based on Cisco solutions. Geckotech also benefits from its Cisco Powered Network designation through joint marketing and technology sharing with Cisco.

About Geckotech, LLC

Geckotech is the Midwest's leading outsourced IP phone system provider to small and midsized businesses. By outsourcing to Geckotech, businesses free valuable time to focus on growth and less time worrying about phone equipment, phone lines and expensive upgrades. Since 2003 Geckotech has focused exclusively on providing outsourced communications with the highest level of customer service on the most reliable, business-grade platform. Geckotech's uptime and reliability is consistently the highest in the industry and businesses benefit from enhanced productivity, flexibility, scalability, reliability and a reduced total cost of ownership over traditional phone systems. For more information, please contact sales@geckotechllc.com or call (312) 948-2995.