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Telemig Celular Selects Veraz to Optimize Bandwidth Between Mobile Switching Centers.


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:VRAZ), a leading global provider of IP softswitches and media gateways, has been chosen by Brazilian mobile operator, Telemig Celular Telemig Celular S.A. is a major Brazilian telecommunications company headquartered in Belo Horizonte. The company is one of eight wireless telephone companies that emerged from the break-up of Telebras. , to optimize the bandwidth between Telemig's Mobile Switching Centers (MSCs). The deployment of Veraz's I-Gate 4000 media gateways has resulted in a reduction of bandwidth between switching sites by a ratio of up to 16 to 1 which has helped Telemig reduce both operational and capital expenditures.

"Prior to selecting Veraz, we conducted a comprehensive review of competing solutions, looking specifically at impact on profitability, return on investment, and reduction of capital and operational expenditures over time," said Paulo Matos, Director of Engineering of Telemig Celular. "The savings generated by Veraz's media gateways has been very impressive and has helped us become more competitive in our market."

The Veraz I-Gate 4000 media gateways use VoIP to transport and optimize the voice signals between Telemig's MSCs while maintaining excellent voice quality. In addition to bandwidth optimization, because the Veraz solution is built on an open standards-based architecture, it allows for a smoother migration to a full NGN (Next Generation Networks) An umbrella term for mixed voice and data networks running over the IP protocol. See IP Multimedia Subsystem.  or IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem.

(2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS.
 solution. Operators can implement Veraz media gateways for applications today and benefit from their flexibility tomorrow as their needs evolve.

"Telemig Celular is widely recognized as an efficient and innovative company with the highest standards of excellence," said Carlos Linares, Vice President of CALA CALA Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse
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 for Veraz. "We, at Veraz take great pride in having Telemig as a client and look forward to helping it to meet its challenges now and in the future."

About Veraz Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRAZ)

Veraz (www.veraznetworks.com) is a leading global provider of IP softswitches, media gateways and digital compression products that enable voice, video and other multimedia services. Wireline, broadband and wireless service providers in over 50 countries have deployed Veraz's IP product suite to transport, convert and manage voice and multimedia traffic over both legacy and IP networks. Veraz products allow service providers to quickly and efficiently migrate from traditional voice networks to all-IP, fixed-mobile and multimedia networks consistent with emerging IMS standards.

About Telemig Celular

With more than 3.5 million clients, Telemig Celular is the largest mobile telephony operator in the Minas Gerais Minas Gerais (mē`nəs zhərīs`) [Port.,=various mines], state (1996 pop. 16,660,691), 226,707 sq mi (587,171 sq km), E Brazil. The capital is Belo Horizonte. Minas Gerais continues to produce more than half of Brazil's mineral wealth.  State of Brazil and a leader in quality and profitability. Since its creation the operator, which has a 30.4% market share, has been consolidating its position as an innovative company in the telephony sector. With the planned expansion, Telemig Celular will be providing services in 600 municipalities, with more than 700 locations, including the main State highways.

Recently, Telemig Celular established itself as the operator with the most advanced technology in Brazil, when it implemented in August this year the first 3G/WCDMA link with HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) A family of high-speed 3G digital data services provided by cellular carriers worldwide that use the GSM technology. HSPA service works with HSPA cellphones as well as laptops and portable devices with HSPA modems.  capacity in the country. It will be able to provide a new generation of broadband mobile services, offering speeds of up to 14.4 Mbps, with capacity for multimedia services such as Video Calling (videoconference vid·e·o·con·fer·ence  
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A teleconference using video technology, such as closed-circuit television.



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 by cell phone), Mobile Broadband Description
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This press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding future events that involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these forward-looking statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include but are not limited to, additional sales of Veraz products to Telemig Celular specifically and in Brazil generally and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information about these and other risks that may impact Veraz' business is set forth in our Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the SEC, including the "Risk Factors" section in our final Prospectus Final Prospectus

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 filed April 5, 2007 and Veraz' Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q

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 for the quarter ended June 30, 2007 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Thee filings are available on a website maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at http://www.sec.gov. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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