Cirilium Voice Enables the WEB with Latest Power-Suite VoIP Product Release.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Fall ISPCON 

Booth no. 2215

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 2000

Version 1.1 Incorporates Web-Based Technologies and

New Interface Protocols

Cirilium Corp. is releasing to general availability a new version of its Power-Suite carrier-class IP telephony solution. Version 1.1 of Cirilium's Power-Suite adds significant capability to the original version 1.0 platform, which was released in April of this year.

Power-Suite and its new capabilities will be demonstrated next at ISPCon Fall, Nov. 8 - 10, in the San Jose Convention Center, booth No. 2215. ISPCon Fall offers a unique opportunity for ISPs, CLECs and ASPs to evaluate this technology and learn about the revenue generating opportunities available to them.

Power-Suite is the first infrastructure solution to combine a carrier-class media gateway with back-office, software-based components and interactive Voice Enabling the WEB services. The solution helps carriers and enterprises speed services to market and reduce costs by integrating VoIP applications. Cirilium's standards-based Power-Suite has proved to be interoperable with other vendors' platforms, including Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) routers.

"With this new release of Power-Suite, we have incorporated several enhancements to an already strong offering -- the most significant being our Web-based technologies and additional telecom interface protocols," said Paul Wallner, Cirilium chief executive officer.

"Using our new product release, ISPs, Next-Gen Telcos and PTTs are able to immediately deploy these capabilities in innovative revenue generating applications," added Wallner.

In addition to current H.323, MGCP and SS7 interfaces, the new version of Power-Suite integrates Japan INS1500, MFR2, Australian ISDN, China Signaling 1 and Hong Kong T-1 ISDN. Version 1.1 also incorporates Web-based technologies such as Touch-to-Talk, Interactive Web Push and Web Phone. The Web Phone supports phone-to-Web, Web-to-phone and Web-to-Web communications.

"Voice-enabling Web sites with Cirilium's new Web-based technologies allows businesses to bridge the customer service gap between call centers and on-line commerce," said Mike Sargent, senior vice president of international sales and marketing.

"The Web becomes a more powerful sales tool -- decreasing shopping cart abandonment and increasing sales opportunities through impulse buying, agent cross-selling and agent up-selling. A business can Web-enable its call center by building the network itself or through an ISP or ASP that hosts the network infrastructure."

According to a telecommunications industry report from Frost & Sullivan, the market for Web-enabled call center solutions is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 110 percent through 2004, and is projected to reach $1.3 billion in the U.S. alone by 2006.

Power-Suite components can be installed as a total solution or individually, with pricing computed on a per-port basis depending on configuration.

Current Power-Suite customers include several large PTTs in Asia and Europe, ISPs integrating Cirilium's Web-based technology into their business models, and several next-generation carriers, one of which is eVos of Miami and Mexico City.

eVos Corp. is an innovative and emerging provider of Internet utilities for high quality, economical voice, fax and data communications around the globe. The eVos Network, using Cirilium's next-generation media gateways deployed at its Points-Of-Presence, allows Whisper Quality(TM) communication.

eVos seeks to create a large, direct and indirect customer base in the American Latino, Latin American and Indonesian marketplaces before penetrating new markets in the Pacific Rim and Africa. The company has already deployed Cirilium's 6200 Media Gateways in Miami and Mexico City and plans to deploy in Guatemala, Colombia and Indonesia.

"We chose Cirilium to be our equipment provider because we firmly believe that Cirilium has developed the best algorithm for voice compression in the market," said Carlos R. Pareja, president of eVos Corp.

"We have conducted several demos among prepaid calling card providers and in 100% of the cases the Quality of Service has been as good as that of the public telephone network. Based on this, we have signed important agreements with other networks to exchange traffic. We are extremely satisfied with the Power-Suite release 1.1."

About Cirilium

Combining its expertise in telecommunications, computer telephony and packet-switched application design, Cirilium delivers a host of VoIP solutions for service providers and enterprises. Power-Suite, Cirilium's IP Telephony offering, provides everything users need to establish and manage converged networks.

Power-Suite consists of three components: the Media Gateway Package, which includes the media gateway and call manager; the NetControl Center, which provides the functions necessary to control and monitor a VoIP network -- gatekeeper, network manager, IVR and back-office package; and the Application Center, which offers interactive e-commerce applications such as touch-to-talk, Web push and Web phone technologies.

Cirilium, a privately held company, is based in Phoenix and has offices in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Japan, Korea and Malaysia. For more information, contact Cirilium at 481/829-8888 or http://www.cirilium.com.