Jasomi Sees Session Controller Market Heating Up In Unexpected Ways; New Demand Coming Not Only From Carriers, But Also ISPs and Enterprise Customers.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SUPERCOMM 2003

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2003

SUPERCOMM--Jasomi Networks today announced that demand for its PeerPoint line of network boundary traversal solutions has increased not only from larger carrier customers, but also from smaller service providers, ISPs, and enterprises. Separately, Jasomi, which is exhibiting at the SIPForum and IPCC pavilions at SUPERCOMM 2003 this week in Atlanta, announced 6 new customer deployments of its award-winning PeerPoint product line, and also announced major new functionality in version 3.0 of the product.

Many of Jasomi's revenue-bearing carrier deployments over the last 3 months have largely been with newer providers serving identifiable niche markets, who are quickly able to embrace VoIP's service creation economies without worrying about cannibalizing existing revenue streams. Jasomi has also seen a surge in demand for pilot and trial deployments from tier-1 and tier-2 carriers over the past 2 calendar quarters, indicating that the giants are very much awake, but are moving with more deliberation and at a somewhat slower pace.

Jasomi's financial strength has improved materially since strong revenue growth coupled with disciplined financial management turned the company profitable in November of last year. The growth has kept the company profitable in each of the last 8 months. Jasomi is the first company to find business success in the hotly contested network boundary traversal market, which encompasses session control, near-end and far-end NAT traversal, security, and trust management. Jasomi's profitability has been helped by the emergence of demand from large enterprises for secure VoIP solutions that work with existing corporate firewalls.

Jasomi also mentioned that many ISPs seem to be in the process of evolving their business models to embrace additional voice (and sometimes video) revenues. These new, smaller voice networks are being powered by a variety of softswitch, hosted-PBX, and gateway technologies from Jasomi and its partners such as IPTel, Indigo, Cisco, and eDial. Since early Q1/03, Jasomi's Integrated Technical Services group has been supplying these technologies in an integrated bundle called PeerPoint Complete, which has been popular both as a proof-of-concept quick-start package for new VoIP experimentation and as a relatively inexpensive way for pilot projects to be deployed in a matter of weeks, avoiding the usual integration woes.

For the first time, 2003 has seen Jasomi's North American revenues exceed those from international customers, for the most part due to unexpected growth in demand from North American enterprise customers who had not embraced VoIP in prior years. The company has also been helped by follow-on business from existing customers who have found a need to deploy equipment to reliably handle increased call volumes.

The company's award-winning Back to Back User Agent (B2BUA) technology base has allowed it to rapidly expand the PeerPoint product line to create solutions for the most vexing problems facing those designing and implementing VoIP networks, including near-end and far-end NAT traversal, session control, security, denial-of-service attack control, and protocol repair.

Jasomi is now eyeing closer ties with its most trusted vendor partners as it follows through on the early market penetration work that it has done over the last several quarters, expanding the base of solutions available to its customers while sticking true to its business model which has so far brought success to the company. That model is relatively simple: listen to customers, make or buy the best solutions to the real-world problems they are encountering, be responsive to changes in the landscape, and deliver fast, correct, easy-to-deploy implementations that maintain the economics of the VoIP business.

About Jasomi Networks 

Jasomi Networks brings products to market that enable or improve IP telephony business models. The company's focus is on creating innovative, practical solutions that effectively solve specific IP telephony problems. Jasomi is a carrier-focused company that recognizes and enhances the entire value chain from carrier to reseller and service provider to enterprise. Jasomi Networks is based in San Jose, CA and Calgary, Canada, and is privately held. For further information, contact Jasomi Networks at (408) 252-VoIP (8647), or send email to [e-mail]. Jasomi's web site is www.jasomi.com.

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