Siemens HiPath OpenScape Wins the 2007 TMC Labs Innovation Award from Internet Telephony

Business Wire, July 18, 2007

Award Recognizes Siemens Industry-Leading Open Communication Product

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Siemens Communications, Inc., [NYSE: SI] today announced that Siemens HiPath OpenScape has been awarded the 2007 TMC Labs Innovation Award presented by Internet Telephony. This award from a key industry publication recognizes Siemens' leadership in unified communications and shows Siemens' commitment to providing rich user experience, business process integration and deployment choices across any device, IT environment or network. Siemens HiPath OpenScape fulfills the promise of Open Communications and highlights the usability, productivity and collaboration gains that unified communications provide.

HiPath OpenScape is the industry's most mature unified communications solution and enables presence-based real-time communication and collaboration. It aggregates and integrates communications tools into critical business applications, reduces the complexity of employees' desktop and mobile environments and facilitates employee and customer access to information via any device. OpenScape operates in any telephony or groupware environment and helps enterprises overcome the barriers to today's communications while offering a flexible new range of solutions that match enterprises' diverse needs.

"Siemens' comprehensive experience with open, mobile voice and data communications adds real value to our solutions portfolio," said Todd Sharp, Engage Incorporated, a managed services and hosted communications provider headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. "With Siemens HiPath OpenScape as one of the foundation technologies in our hosted services portfolio, Engage enables customers to collaborate in real-time across disparate platforms, allowing them to improve business workflow and productivity."

According to Dana Rasmussen, President of Siemens Communications, "The Innovation Awards exemplify the best and the most unique products and services that this industry has to offer. Siemens is honored to be among the elite group of winners. This award truly recognizes Siemens' commitment to quality and a commitment to the further development of unified communications tools in the IP communications industry through HiPath OpenScape, a commitment reinforced by our customers and partners using Siemens' technology in both innovative and industry-leading ways worldwide."

The TMC Labs Innovation Awards honor products that demonstrate raw innovation, unique features, and significant contributions toward improving communications technology. The TMC Labs Innovation Awards are not granted only to the best-selling products, but instead to those demonstrating raw innovation, uniqueness, and representing a significant contribution to the industry.

2007 TMC Labs Innovation Award winners can be found in the July and August 2007 issues of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

About Siemens

Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) is one of the largest global electronics and engineering companies with reported worldwide sales of $107.4 billion in 2006. Founded 160 years ago, the company is a leader in the areas of Medical, Power, Automation and Control, Transportation, Information and Communications, Lighting, Building Technologies, Water Technologies and Services and Home Appliances. With its U.S. corporate headquarters in New York City, Siemens in the USA has sales of $21.4 billion and employs approximately 70,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Eleven of Siemens' worldwide businesses are based in the United States. With its global headquarters in Munich, Siemens AG and its subsidiaries employ 480,000 people in 190 countries. For more information on Siemens in the United States: www.usa.siemens.com.

About Siemens Communications, Inc.

Siemens Communications, Inc. is one of the world's leading vendors of Open Communications solutions for enterprises of all sizes, enabling business processes to be more productive, faster and more secure - with any device, network or information technology infrastructure. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens AG with about 15,000 employees globally and headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. For more information, visit www.usa.siemens.com/communications.> Note: Siemens, HiPath, MobileConnect and OpenScape are registered trademarks of Siemens AG or its subsidiaries and affiliates. All other company, brand, product and service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

This release contains forward-looking statements based on beliefs of Siemens management. The words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "forecast," "expect," "intend," "plan," "should," and "project" are used to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect the company's current views with respect to future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause the actual results to be materially different, including, among others, changes in general economic and business conditions, changes in currency exchange rates and interest rates, introduction of competing products, lack of acceptance of new products or services and changes in business strategy. Actual results may vary materially from those projected here. Siemens does not intend or assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

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