Atreus Systems and UTC Associates, Inc. Partner to Accelerate Service Provider Roll Out of VoIP Services

Atreus Systems and UTC Associates, Inc. Partner to Accelerate
Service Provider Roll Out of VoIP Services

Fall VON, Boston, MA, September 20, 2005 — UTC Associates, a leading systems and network integrator to VoIP based service providers, and Atreus Systems, the premier supplier of VoIP and advanced IP service provisioning software, today announced a partnership that will help service providers speed the delivery of VoIP and advanced IP offerings. Under the terms of the agreement, UTC Associates becomes an integrator for Atreus’ VoIP Provisioning Solution, empowering providers with the operational and business agility to deliver advanced offerings rapidly, consistently and cost-effectively to consumer and enterprise markets.

With the demand for VoIP accelerating, service providers are looking to automate manual processes and quickly scale to meet customer demand. The Atreus and UTC partnership will help service providers overcome the technical and business challenges of deploying Consumer, Business and Wholesale VoIP. The joint partnership combines Atreus’ automated provisioning and customer self-management capabilities with UTC’s full turn-key solution of design, engineering, integration, customized portals, and processes, that enable service providers to rapidly introduce compelling VoIP offerings while scaling their deployment capacity.

"Service providers require flexible solutions that will help them to quickly integrate hosted IP telephony into their service portfolio. However, simplifying service provisioning remains a key challenge for service providers looking to deploy cost-effective VoIP services," said Aziz Ahmad, President and CEO of UTC Associates, Inc. "By partnering with Atreus, UTC leverages the leading vendor of VoIP provisioning software to create one-touch flow-through from order capture to service activation that is tailored to the service providers existing workflow processes. Together, we will enable providers to quickly deploy their hosted VoIP offerings and scale to meet customer demand.”

“UTC has proven successful in assisting service providers to rapidly rollout VoIP services. Their experience on networking, systems and software integration is a clear benefit for our customers that have network equipment and OSS/BSS from multiple vendors that need to interoperate,” said Andrea Baptiste, CEO, Atreus Systems. “This partnership gives our customers a comprehensive product and service solution that will help them quickly and cost-effectively launch VoIP by addressing key issues like streamlined service ordering and automated configuration of a variety of devices.”

Atreus’ Multi-Service Provisioning Solution enables providers to improve the profitability of their consumer and business VoIP offerings, as well as a variety of additional value-added IP services. Through automated provisioning and self-management, Atreus helps providers to quickly deploy feature-rich VoIP and application bundles, while reducing the time, cost and complexity of rolling out new services, modifying features, and managing customer growth. Atreus delivers pre-packaged provisioning and configuration for a variety of VoIP devices, including, feature servers, media servers, softswitches, ATAs, IADs and IP phones, enabling providers to speed their time-to-market by streamlining all the steps required to successfully turn-up and manage a service. Atreus delivers the industry’s largest library of modules that provision a diversity of advanced enterprise and consumer IP offerings, including VoIP, messaging, Voice VPN, conferencing, hosted call center, presence, anti-virus, anti-spam, PC backup, and collaboration services.

Visit Atreus at booth 826 of the Fall 2005 VON Conference & Expo in Boston, MA from September 19-22, 2005 and learn how Atreus is helping communications providers win new business and lower costs with Atreus’ automated provisioning, activation and customer self-management solutions for VoIP, IMS and Triple Play services.

About Atreus Systems
Atreus Systems™ is the premier supplier of VoIP and advanced IP service provisioning software. Winner of the 2005 Pulver100 Award, 2005 FierceVoIP Fierce 15 Award, Internet Telephony “Product of the Year”, and Communications Solutions “Product of the Year”, Atreus helps service providers quickly deploy advanced IP services to both consumer and enterprise markets, while reducing the time, cost and complexity of maintaining new offerings. Atreus delivers pre-packaged provisioning and configuration for a variety of VoIP devices, including, feature servers, media servers, softswitches, ATAs, IADs and IP phones, enabling providers to speed their time-to-market by streamlining all the steps required to successfully turn-up and manage a service. Atreus provides a growing library of provisioning, activation and customer self-management solutions for many services and technologies, including, VoIP, Triple Play, Messaging, IP TV, Security, IMS and Collaboration services. Leaders including SAIC, Telcordia and Ericsson (Nasdaq: ERICY) sell Atreus’ software to their customers worldwide. For more information, visit atreus-systems.com.

About UTC Associates
UTC Associates, Inc., headquartered on Wall Street in New York City, is a solutions-based leading systems & network integration company focusing on all key aspects of complex network planning, design, testing, implementation and support. UTC has practices in Telecommunications, Information Technology and Network Management. UTC's team of professionals consists of individuals at the top of their respective fields. Each engineer has the educational background, industry certifications and communication skills required to produce the highest levels of customer satisfaction. The company provides services to both large and small customers including Fortune 1000 firms across many different industry sectors. To learn more, visit www.utcassociates.com.