Cantata Technology Receives a 2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) Excellence Award.

Cantata's IMG 1010 Integrated Media and Signaling Gateway Honored For Delivering Exceptional VoIP/IP Telephony Solutions at LatiNode

NEEDHAM, Mass. -- Cantata Technology[TM], one of the world's leading independent providers of enabling communications technology, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC([R])) INTERNET TELEPHONY([R]) magazine (www.itmag.com) has named its IMG 1010[TM] Integrated Media and Signaling Gateway as a recipient of an INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been a VoIP Authority since 1998.

The IMG 1010 was selected for the INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award due to its deployment at LatiNode, a rapidly growing Miami-based global facilities-based service provider. As a result of the IMG1010 deployment, LatiNode added four new international carriers, expanded into new geographical areas, and significantly reduced operating expenses.

Cantata's IMG 1010 is an integrated media and signaling gateway that provides any-to-any network connectivity, enabling delivery of SIP services into legacy SS7/PRI networks, as well as IP to IP transcoding for IP network peering applications. The IMG 1010 offers service providers unparalleled performance, reliability, and flexibility to introduce services across fixed and mobile networks worldwide.

"The unique capabilities of the IMG 1010, teamed with Cantata's exceptional customer service and support, create a compelling package and competitive advantage that we can leverage to quickly introduce new revenue-generating services to our fast-growing subscriber base," said Miguel Tarrau, chief technology officer, LatiNode. "Cantata's IMG 1010 offers LatiNode unparalleled performance, reliability and flexibility to introduce VoIP services across fixed and mobile networks worldwide. It also enables the company to reduce costs while improving service quality."

"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," said 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 Cantata Technology recognition from the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY. Cantata's IMG 1010 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.

For more information, please visit www.tmcnet.com.

About TMC ( [R] )

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(1), 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. ((1)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.)

About LatiNode

LatiNode is an award-winning provider of wholesale and retail international telecommunication services. Based in Miami, Florida, the company established a next generation network based on Internet Protocol Technology throughout the Americas, Europe, North Africa, the Middle-East and Asia. LatiNode provides services to the world's largest carriers through its wholesale division, serving more than 3% of the international IP traffic. The company offers an array of consumer and business services through CrossFone branches, its retail subsidiaries currently operating in the US, Argentina, Germany, Colombia, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras. The company also has operations in Guatemala, from where it manages its customer service center and its state of art network operations center, and in Paris, from where it directs it's African and Middle-Eastern markets. The company was awarded Fastest Growing Hispanic Business, two years in a row, and in 2006 ranked 152nd of the top 500 fastest growing private corporations by Inc. Magazine.

About Cantata Technology, Inc.

Cantata Technology, established in 2006 through the combination of Brooktrout Technology[R] and Excel Switching Corporation, provides enabling communications hardware and software that empowers the creation and delivery of anytime, anywhere IP-based communications applications. Leveraging more than 20 years of experience, Cantata offers the broadest range of products, along with a worldwide network of partners that allows service provider and enterprise customers to develop new products, introduce new services and cost-effectively transition networks to IP. Headquartered in Needham, Mass., Cantata maintains multiple locations worldwide in North America, Asia and Europe. For more information, visit http://www.cantata.com.

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