Brite Products Awarded "Product of the Year" by CTI Magazine.

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 1999--Brite Voice Systems (Nasdaq:BVSI) has received two "Product of the Year" awards from CTI Magazine, a leading computer telephony publication. BriteConnect(tm), Brite's open, scaleable platform designed to provide a wide range of multi-media, interactive voice response (IVR) and information processing services, won in the IVR category, and the Brite Programmable Switching Module (BritePSM), a family of intelligent switching based products, won in the PBX adjunct category.

"CTI magazine prides itself on having the most in-depth and objective product reviews of any telecom or datacom publication," said Rich Tehrani, Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) Group Publisher. "Tremendous resources have been devoted to developing TMC Labs, and the TMC Labs engineers and CTI magazine editors spent many weeks picking the most important and influential products of 1998. These products distinguish themselves as two of the most forward thinking and useful products announced in the field of voice/data convergence -- a field that is abundant with new products."

Introduced in March, BriteConnect extends Brite's system design legacy with its client-server hardware and software architecture. BriteConnect offers expandability, modularity and multi-application processing power to customers in a wide range of industries. Because BriteConnect is designed with industry standard hardware and software components, users can employ a variety of application server hardware and UNIX operating system components.

The BritePSM Family, comprised of PS-Switch, PS-Conference, and PS-Monitor, has been designed to deliver cost-effective solutions to the problems encountered when integrating the diverse components of voice-based systems or adding effective new services. All BritePSM models share a common architectural base, and support up to 20 T-1 spans (480 channels) in a module small enough to fit into a standard 5 1/4" disk drive bay or contained in its own rack-mount chassis.

Brite is a world leader in providing enhanced telecommunications systems and interactive information systems. Brite's products include network and handset based prepaid, voice activated dialing and enhanced calling card systems for wireless and wireline communications companies, and IVR-CTI for businesses and organizations. The company also provides managed service capabilities for these products. Brite's world headquarters are located in Heathrow, Florida, a suburb of Orlando, and has offices worldwide. Contact Brite at 1-800-SEE-BRITE, or on the Web at www.brite.com.

Brite is certified ISO 9001/TickIT, a globally accepted quality management recognition. Brite's certification includes the design, development, manufacture, installation and support of computer-based voice and multimedia systems. The certification also includes the company's associated managed services, information services and training services.

Brite is a trademark of Brite Voice Systems, Inc. Other product and company names are used herein for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies.