Atreus Systems Receives 2006 Internet Telephony Excellence Award

Atreus’ Leadership in VoIP Provisioning, Quality of Deployments and Strength of Technology Secures Prestigious Award for the Second Year Running

– October 12, 2006 — Atreus Systems™, the leading supplier of provisioning software for VoIP, IMS and advanced IP service bundles,announced today that Internet Telephony® magazine has named Atreus’ IP Service Provisioning software as a recipient of the Internet Telephony Excellence Award for 2006. Atreus delivers provisioning, activation and customer self-management software for a variety of IP offerings, including, VoIP, IMS, Presence, Multimedia Conferencing, Hosted Call Center, Unified Messaging, Voice Networking and Collaboration services.

“The editorial staff of Internet Telephony magazine is proud to announce the winners of the second annual Internet Telephony Excellence Awards. These companies are as varied as the products that fit under the IP telephony umbrella, but they have all achieved delivering winning solutions for their customers’ needs,” indicated Rich Tehrani, Editor-in-Chief of Internet Telephony.

“The winners of the second annual Internet Telephony Excellence Award are leaders in VoIP. Taking risks to advance VoIP technology and provide real solutions has earned Atreusrecognition from the editors of Internet Telephony. Atreus has excelled in the VoIP/IP Telephony industry, and most importantly, its customers are willing to offer their testaments of support,” said Greg Galitzine, Editorial Director of Internet Telephony.

"We're honored to be selected once again by Internet Telephony magazine as it continues to validate the leadership and value that Atreus delivers to service providers worldwide”, said Andrea Baptiste, CEO, Atreus Systems. “The industry’s top carriers and resellers continue to rely on our robust, end-to-end solution to quickly become operational, lower service delivery costs, and generate new revenue with VoIP and advanced IP bundles.”

Atreus’ IP Service Provisioning Solution empowers service providers to quickly become operational with a fully-featured VoIP service, enabling providers to successfully turn up, bill and manage subscribers. Atreus’ automated provisioning and customer self-management solution allows providers to simplify market trials and rapidly introduce revenue-generating communications bundles to residential, business and wholesale 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 service introduction by streamlining all the steps required to successfully become operational.

About Atreus Systems
Atreus Systems™ is the leading supplier of provisioning software for VoIP, IMS and advanced IP service bundles. Atreus is the vendor of choice for the delivery of advanced IP services by leading providers, including Qwest, PCCW, Telus, Aliant, Voila IP and Xspedius. Atreus has formed strategic partnerships with BroadSoft, Ericsson, Level 3, Sonus and Sylantro, delivering carrier-class reliability and scalability for VoIP, IMS and advanced IP bundles. For more information, visit atreus-systems.com.

About TMC®
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, SIP Magazine and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 2,100 sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves more than one million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The VoIP Developer Conference, VoIP Demo, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.