Success of Juma Technology, Level 3, Time Warner Telecom, NeuStar, NexTone & Xceedium Presentations Focus of VoIP Boot Camp Special Edition Newsletter

Market Wire, December, 2006

TELEHOUSE America announces it will release a special edition newsletter devoted to its September 15th VoIP BOOT CAMP@TELEHOUSE Center, featuring co-hosts Juma Technology, Level 3, Time Warner Telecom, NeuStar, NexTone and Xceedium. The workshop drew sixty-five-plus people to TELEHOUSE's Staten Island, New York headquarters at The Teleport, and it was the first of two key workshops dealing with the convergence of content and voice on IP networks. The other took place on December 8th.

The VoIP BOOT CAMP delivered insider insights on protecting enterprise networks, carriers' plan to operate in the VoIP space, SIP & SIP-IX's strategic relevance to IP voice, video/data today and beyond, and new technologies in the peering space VoIP infrastructure continuity.

Juma Technology's discussion by Joseph Cassano, executive vice president of sales and Joseph Fucillo, CTO, covered the business-critical requirements for the install and post installs stages and the promise of convergence. The speakers cited the upward trend of IP port installs, research showing IP telephony and convergence as top IT priorities, and business, user and IT imperatives as the forces driving transformation. Fuccillo's ended with a comparison of traditional PSTN setups and VoIP enterprises with and without SIP.

International carrier Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) discussed the evolution of IP technology into a platform for various communications companies with distinct audio, video and collaborative services targeting B2B or B2C. Edward Morch, V.P. - Wholesale Offer Management at Level 3. used his company's vast experience in VoIP and their network to illustrate building a VoIP/Softswitch network. He went into the issues dealing with legacy TDM architecture, the new IP technologies and networks optimized for IP and softswitch platforms.

Steve Starliper, vice president of marketing at Time Warner Telecom (NASDAQ: TWTC) talked about carriers dealing with intra Telecom changes from traditional Circuit Switched, TDM services to Ethernet & IP as a transport medium. He reviewed the issues facing the enterprise -- rising bandwidth demand competition, regulations, and capital -- and how current traditional communication technologies can leverage IP to converge and integrate their LAN, WAN and Voice.

NeuStar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) discussed why VoIP peering is just the "tip of the Services iceberg" and why the industry has returned to a more centralized, unified environment. Along the way, the firm's senior director, IP products & services, Dennis Brouwer, and director, product management, Tim Cody, pointed out the latest developments and benefits of direct IP Interoperability between service providers, such as NeuStar SIP-IX, the coordination and administration functions needed to enable multiple, time-sensitive services over IP, and what it takes to implement direct network-to-network interworking of voice, video and content services.

NexTone's vice president enterprise market, Larry Schessel pointed out the benefits of intelligent VoIP interconnects, how VoIP and IMS peering is creating a new networking economy where sessions, not bandwidth and minutes, are the new currency. NexTone explained how intelligent interconnects, driven via session management technology, such as session border controllers, quickly leverages this new networking paradigm to expand and extend business. NexTone provides intelligent, secure next generation IP and IMS network interconnects.

Xceedium's David Van discussed the operational concerns of VoIP, specifically securely and cost effectively managing extremely critical remote VoIP infrastructures. They concentrated on how this infrastructure's inoperability quickly cripples a business, VoIP's resiliency as a vital part of the VoIP deployment plan or post-install retrofit. Van also commented on converging voice into the existing data infrastructure and why it allows IT units organizations to seamlessly and effectively incorporate new VoIP operations into existing or new Lights-out operability strategy.

About TELEHOUSE

TELEHOUSE America, a carrier-neutral collocation space and services pioneer since 1989, provides secure, power-protected environments where customers house and operate their telecommunications and network resources. Companies from a wide range of industries locate their mission critical equipment at TELEHOUSE's collocation "meet-me-centers" in NY or CA to profit from potential business opportunities that exist from other TELEHOUSE customers. The ability to connect to state-of-the-art peering exchanges in NY (NYIIX; http://www.nyiix.net/ ) and LA (LAIIX; http://www.laiix.net/ ) is among the many benefits of collocating with TELEHOUSE. Through its European and Asian sister companies, TELEHOUSE also can provide continuous, cost-effective operation of network-dependent businesses globally. Please visit http://www.TELEHOUSE.com or contact us at sales@TELEHOUSE.com .

About Juma Technology

Juma Technology is a highly skilled telecommunications and IT systems integrator specializing in converged voice and data network deployments. Their practice areas span both voice and data communications technologies which enables their customers to benefit from their expertise across a broad spectrum of business-critical requirements. Whatever your technology objectives are, you can count on the experts at Juma to leverage your IT and voice communications assets to achieve your goals. For more information, please visit www.jumatechnology.com