Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Ubiquity SIP Application Server Innovation With 2007 Mobility Award

Ubiquity Software (LSE: UGQ), a subsidiary of Avaya, Inc., today announced that Frost & Sullivan has selected Ubiquity as the recipient of the 2007 North American Mobility Award for its Session Initiation Protocol Application Server (SIP A/S).

The Frost & Sullivan Mobility Awards recognize companies and individuals who produce the top products and services in the mobile and wireless industry. Frost & Sullivan selected Ubiquity for its outstanding innovation in developing the industry's leading carrier-grade SIP A/S platform, supporting the deployment of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and pre-IMS applications and services. Ubiquity's SIP A/S is enabling the world's leading service providers, system integrators and software vendors to quickly develop and deploy innovative and differentiated services over mobile, fixed and converged Internet Protocol (IP) and IMS networks.

"Wireless service providers are actively pursuing strategies to deploy next-generation, multi-media services in a rapid and cost-efficient fashion, in order to increase ARPU and improve subscriber stickiness," said Ronald Gruia, Principal Analyst of Emerging Telecom at Frost & Sullivan. "Ubiquity's SIP A/S provides a robust development and runtime platform that speeds the development and deployment of new application concepts and services. The broad adoption of Ubiquity by service providers worldwide puts the company at the forefront of the SIP app server market; and subsequently makes Ubiquity an innovator worthy of receiving this distinguished award."

Ubiquity's SIP A/S can be used to develop and deliver SIP-based applications that incorporate video, voice, data, presence and web services in a single application. Ubiquity's SIP A/S is an open, standards-based platform that is comprised of both a carrier-grade runtime server and service creation environment to speed time to market for new applications and services across wireless, wireline and converged networks. Extending the value of the SIP A/S even further, Ubiquity's first-of-kind SIP-based Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) makes it possible to develop new SIP applications within a SOA framework, streamlining application development, testing, deployment and maintenance. SIP SOA enables the integration of real-time communications into business processes and applications via Web Services, and allows developers to leverage and repurpose a suite of pre-built application building blocks to create new services.

"Ubiquity has made a tremendous investment in the advancement of SIP, both through our contribution to the JSR SIP servlet specification, and through the creation of the first commercially proven SIP A/S platform adopted by the world's leading service providers," said Ian McLaren, President and CEO of Ubiquity Software. "We are delighted to be recognized by Frost & Sullivan as a technology innovator, and we believe such recognition not only speaks to the power and versatility of our SIP platform, but also to our world-class engineers, partners, and customers that have made our market leadership possible."

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The Ubiquity SIP A/S has been leveraged by over one hundred global carriers in pursuit of commercial deployment strategies or development and trials around Next-Generation Network (NGN) or IP Multimedia Systems (IMS) applications. Some of the applications that exploit the strengths of the SIP A/S include consumer VoIP, IP conferencing, ringback tones, music sharing, video sharing, media push, fixed mobile convergence, intelligent call routing, automatic call back, route finder, and others.

The Ubiquity Developer Network (UDN) is the industry's first online community that successfully brings stakeholders together to capitalize on the market opportunities that have resulted from the broad adoption of the Ubiquity SIP A/S. The goal of UDN is to accelerate and expand the breadth and depth of commercial applications that run on the Ubiquity SIP A/S by enabling and maturing a community of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), complementary technology partners (CTPs), System Integrators (SIs), and other 3rd-party developers.

About Ubiquity Software

Ubiquity Software, a subsidiary of Avaya, Inc., is revolutionizing the communications marketplace with solutions that enable service providers to rapidly develop and deploy innovative revenue-generating services. Ubiquity offers a standards-based deployment and runtime platform, applications, and development tools for introducing converged IP-based voice, video and data services. Ubiquity's SIP Application Server (SIP A/S) is the most widely deployed, carrier-grade SIP A/S platform among the world's leading telecommunications carriers, and complemented by the Ubiquity SIP Service Oriented Architecture (SIP SOA), the industry's first SOA for real-time services. Through the Ubiquity Developer Network (UDN), Ubiquity partners with leading system integrators, network equipment vendors, ISVs, and developers to bring new communications solutions to a rapidly changing global market. Ubiquity Software has facilities in Cardiff, Wales, Ottawa, Canada and Redwood City, CA, with sales offices across EMEA, North America, Japan and China. For more information, visit http://www.ubiquitysoftware.com or email info@ubiquitysoftware.com .