Veraz Networks Launches Wireless Network Compression Solution Enabling Wireless Operators to Avoid Expensive Leased Networks.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Solution Combines the Highest Voice QoS with the Economies of VoIP

Veraz Networks announced the launch of its new Wireless Network Compression solution that allows wireless carriers and service providers to benefit from VoIP, when they are required to transport calls over leased lines. In India, as well as many other countries, wireless operators are required to interconnect their Mobile Switching Centers over expensive leased circuits. By using Veraz's Wireless Network Compression solution, wireless operators are able to dramatically lower their operational costs by using significantly high quality compressed VoIP to transport calls when they are required to lease circuits as is often the case when interconnecting sites across regulated borders.

The Veraz Wireless Network Compression solution, based on Veraz's I-Gate 4000 PRO media gateways, combines the highest voice quality with the economies associated with VoIP. Moreover, Veraz's superior voice compression, which is as high as 12 to 1, enables carriers to reduce costs associated with leased lines, or meet rapidly rising traffic levels even when access to additional leased lines is constrained. Even more importantly, Veraz's voice quality and stability of the platform stand up under the most rigorous conditions: with superior handling of latency, jitter and packet loss, even over satellite links, it enables wireless carriers to deliver the high quality of service demanded by their customers.

The Veraz Wireless Network Compression solution provides VoIP Trunking for the most demanding voice applications and the most rigorous environments that are often found in emerging markets such as India. In addition to the high quality compression and echo cancellation, the Wireless Network Compression solution features silence suppression with superior Voice Activity Detection (VAD) and Comfort Noise Generation (CNG), and intelligent packet loss concealment (PLC) with low-delay and non-blocking.

"For mobile operators, our solution actually enables them to significantly lower the toll that they currently pay, and thus provide much more competitive rates to their customers," said Amit Chawla, Executive VP, Global Marketing at Veraz Networks.

About Veraz Networks (www.veraznetworks.com)

Veraz Networks is privately funded by ECI Telecom (Nasdaq:ECIL), Argonaut Private Equity, Battery Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Levensohn Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners. The company is headquartered in San Jose, CA, with offices throughout the world.