Antepo, Inc. Receives the 2005 Technology Innovation Award in the Field of Enterprise Instant Messaging Solutions.

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- In Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis, Advances in Software for Enterprise Communication, Antepo, Inc. has been selected as the recipient of the 2005 Technology Innovation Award in the field of Enterprise Instant Messaging (EIM) software solutions. Antepo has been at the forefront of developing real-time communication and collaboration solutions for desktop applications and business specific processes across a wide variety of sectors: financial, telecom, healthcare and retail, to name a few.

This Award is presented to the company who has carried out new research; which has resulted in innovation(s) that have or are expected to bring significant contributions to the industry in terms of adoption, change, and competitive posture. The Award also recognizes the quality and depth of a company's research and development program as well as the vision and risk-taking that enabled it to undertake such an endeavor.

Antepo's foremost technology, the Open Presence Network (or OPN System), has been effectively integrated with a number of fascinating and significant features related to security and compliance to Instant Messaging in addition to the basic Presence management backbone. The heart of the solution is its ability to augment productivity and overall business velocity through real-time communication and data transfer embedded in business processes.

Antepo has welcomed the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ratified industry standards, which allows great flexibility to its tools. The technology is interoperable in that the OPN system is the only EIM solution to support both industry standards: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) / Session Initiation Protocol for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIMPLE). This is a triggering factor for enterprises that do not want to be locked into a proprietary protocol or "flavor" of an existing protocol. The OPN system offers enterprise networks the autonomy of growing with the changing IT parameters.

Unlike other similar solutions on the market, the OPN system permits enterprises to communicate between global business units, customers and partners that may already be using other systems such as Microsoft Live Communication Server, IBM Sametime or Jabber. With the new OPN System XT's fast approaching debut, which happens to be fitted with AOL Instant Messenger connectivity, Antepo will broaden the reach of EIM to the immense AOL network (Antepo, Inc. has been named an AOL Enterprise Federation Program Partner).

The OPN system is, in essence, an "all-in-one" system with built-in features for archiving, logging/reporting, encryption, user management. Antepo's OPN System SDK, a unique additive to real-time enterprise development allows presence technology to be built into other applications utilities to further diminish the inherent latencies.

For their exceptional contributions to technology innovation in the field of Enterprise Instant Messaging, Antepo, Inc. is the praiseworthy recipient of the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation.

About Antepo, Inc.

Antepo provides secure, scalable Enterprise Instant Messaging (EIM) and Presence capabilities to enterprises, carriers, developers, and SMBs through its innovative Open Presence Network (OPN) System(TM). OPN System enables real-time communication and collaboration between employees, customers, suppliers, and partners, while meeting critical requirements for control, security, integration, and compliance. As an official AOL(R) Enterprise Federation Partner, Antepo also provides OPN System enterprises with seamless connectivity to business contacts on the AOL Instant Messenger(TM) (AIM(R)) network, in addition to supporting interoperability and server federation between EIM solutions based on XMPP or SIP/SIMPLE industry-standard protocols. Antepo is a FIMA (Financial Services Instant Messaging Association) affiliated vendor, with worldwide customers in financial, telecom, healthcare, retail, and other markets.

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