Ingate(R) Systems Receives a 2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) Excellence Award

Ingate® Systems, which develops firewall technology and products that enable SIP-based live communication for the enterprise while maintaining control and security at the network edge, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC®) INTERNET TELEPHONY® magazine ( www.itmag.com ) has named the Ingate SIParator® and Remote SIP Connectivity Software Module as a recipient of a 2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been a VoIP Authority since 1998(TM).

The award-winning SIParator is a device that connects to an existing network firewall to seamlessly enable SIP communications. Like the Ingate Firewall, the SIParator solves the NAT traversal issues with SIP communications and handles the routing of SIP signaling and media streams to and from the private IP addresses of authorized users on the LAN. Ingate's Remote SIP Connectivity software module is a far-end NAT traversal solution that allows far-flung users to leverage the benefits of SIP communications already integrated into the company's network without the addition of hardware or software at the remote site.

"Together, the SIParator with Remote SIP Connectivity software module is a powerful tool that enables remote workers to use VoIP, and leverage the benefits of their corporate IP-PBX from anywhere, as long as there's an Internet connection," said Steven Johnson, President, Ingate Systems. "With proven interoperability with the world's leading IP-PBXs, the combination of the SIParator with Remote SIP Connectivity makes it very easy for an enterprise to deploy SIP trunks, a technology that offers significant ROI by eliminating the need to purchase local PSTN gateways, costly ISDN BRIs (Basic Rate Interfaces) or PRIs (Primary Rate Interfaces)."

"The editorial staff of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine is proud to announce the winners of the second annual INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Awards. These companies are as varied as the products that fit under the IP telephony umbrella, but they have all achieved delivering winning solutions for their customers' needs," indicated Rich Tehrani, Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

"The winners of the second annual INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award are leaders in VoIP. Taking risks to advance VoIP technology and provide real solutions has earned Ingate recognition from the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY. The SIParator with Remote SIP Connectivity software module has excelled in the VoIP/IP Telephony industry, and most importantly, its customers are willing to offer their testaments of support," said Greg Galitzine, Editorial Director of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

Since the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs and Minacom. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has a circulation of 55,000.

The 2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners are published in the October 2006 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, www.itmag.com , or can be found directly online at http://www.tmcnet.com/awards/it-excellence-award-winners-2006.htm .

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About Ingate® Systems

Ingate® Systems develops firewall technology and products that enable SIP-based live communication for the enterprise while maintaining control and security at the network edge. Ingate has a long history of developing next-generation firewall technology that solves the NAT/firewall traversal issue inherent in SIP communications. In addition to an extensive line of Ingate Firewalls®, the company also produces the award-winning Ingate SIParator®, a device that connects to an existing network firewall to seamlessly enable SIP communications. Ingate products currently protect the networks of retail companies, financial institutions, industrial firms, government agencies and small-to-large enterprises throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Ingate Systems AB is headquartered in Sweden with offices in Stockholm and Linköping. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Ingate Systems Inc., is located in Hollis, New Hampshire, with a U.S. technology center in Frisco, Texas. For more information on Ingate Systems, visit www.ingate.com .

About TMC®

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, SIP Magazine and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 2,100 sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves more than one million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The VoIP Developer Conference, VoIP Demo, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com . (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)