Atreus Systems Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY® Magazine’s “INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence” Award for 2005

Atreus Systems Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY® Magazine’s
“INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence” Award for 2005

Atreus’ Leadership in VoIP Provisioning, Quality of Deployments
and Strength of Technology Secures Prestigious Award

– October 18, 2005 — Atreus Systems™, the premier supplier of VoIP and advanced IP service provisioning software, announced today that INTERNET TELEPHONY® magazine (www.itmag.com) has named Atreus’ Multi-Service Provisioning software as a recipient of the INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award for 2005. Atreus delivers award-winning provisioning, activation and customer self-management software for a variety of offerings, including, VoIP, Triple Play, Messaging, IP TV, Security, IMS and Collaboration services. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, which is owned by Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), has been a respected VoIP Authority since 1998™.

“The editorial staff of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine is proud to announce the winners of the first-ever INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Awards. These companies are as varied as there are products that fit under the IP telephony umbrella. But the one thing that binds them all together is that they all excel at delivering solutions that solve their customers’ needs,” indicated Rich Tehrani, Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

“Atreus has proven to the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY that its Multi-Service Provisioning software has excelled in the IP Telephony industry, and most importantly, their customers are willing to speak up and offer themselves as references,” added Greg Galitzine, Editorial Director of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

“The INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award helps validate Atreus’ software as an essential provisioning solution specifically designed to help providers lower service delivery costs, speed service roll out and generate new revenue with VoIP and advanced IP bundles,” added Andrea Baptiste, CEO, Atreus Systems.

Atreus’ Multi-Service Provisioning Solution empowers providers to improve profitability with VoIP bundles and Triple Play offerings for enterprise and consumer markets. Atreus delivers pre-integrated provisioning and configuration for a variety of VoIP devices, including soft switches, feature servers, media servers, ATAs, IADs and IP phones, helping providers to speed their time-to-market by streamlining all the steps required to successfully turn-up and manage a service. The Atreus solution solves the VoIP delivery challenges of today, while positioning providers to meet their rapid growth plans with an industry-leading service provisioning library that helps providers launch and bundle advanced offerings from VoIP and IPTV to messaging and desktop applications.

The INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners for 2005 will be published in the October issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

About Atreus Systems
Atreus Systems™ is the premier supplier of VoIP and advanced IP service provisioning software. Atreus leads the market with award winning products that help 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 a variety of offerings, 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 TMC™
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes two print magazines: Customer Interaction Solutions, and Internet Telephony; five digital publications, SIP Magazine, Speech-World, WiFi Telephony Magazine, VoIP Developer, WiMAX Magazine; and the online publications TMCnet.com, Planet PDA Magazine, WiFi Revolution, Alternative Power and BiometriTech. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The VoIP Developer Conference, Speech-World Conference, IP Contact Center Summit and The Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit. TMCnet.com publishes more than 25 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit its Web site at www.tmcnet.com.