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Audiocodes Ltd. — Regulatory Filings 2004
Mar 18, 2004
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| Cornelia Serb Astral Tel: 040740-11-53-11 [email protected] | Shirley Nakar AudioCodes Tel: +972-3-976-4072 [email protected] | Kristy Needham Alan Weinkrantz And Co. Tel: +1-210-861-9875 [email protected] | | --- | --- | --- |
Astral Selects AudioCodes CPE Media Gateways to Deliver Voice Services over Cable Networks
AudioCodes Mediant™ Digital Media Gateways and MediaPack™ Analog Gateways Meet Growing Demand for Converged Network Services
Lod, Israel and Bucharest, Romania – March 18, 2004 – Astral Telecom, one of the leading integrated electronic communications services providers in Romania and AudioCodes (NASDAQ: AUDC), a leading provider of Voice over Packet (VoP) technologies and Voice Network products, today announced that AudioCodes’ Mediant™ Digital Gateways and MediaPack™ Analog Media Gateways have been chosen to deliver voice services over Astral’s cable networks.
Astral is utilizing AudioCodes’ digital and analog media gateways as part of their complete voice over cable solution to offer voice services in Romania. AudioCodes Mediant™ and MediaPack™ CPE products will be used especially for business customer services. These CPE gateways will be integrated with Astral’s FTTX (Fiber To The Home, Fiber To The Building) solutions.
“Having successfully passed all the quality and compatibility assurance tests, AudioCodes products have proven themselves to be the most reliable product for use within Astral’s network,” said Dinu Malacopol, CEO Internet & Data division of Astral. “Because of its high
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quality, we are also using AudioCodes MediaPack CPEs for smaller business solutions over the CATV IP network. AudioCodes MediaPack is a stand-alone gateway that provides at least the same quality as an integrated MTA cable modem. In addition to its high quality, compatibility and flexible support for its vendors, we are planning to use AudioCodes equipment if we migrate our IP Telephony system from H.323 to MGCP and SIP. Presently, the AudioCodes product family is our main choice when seeking suitable solutions for our business customers.”
Stefan Manza, IP Telephony Technical Manager of Astral added: “We have selected AudioCodes CPE devices after conducting field tests on products from multiple vendors and were impressed with the performance of AudioCodes’ media gateways. AudioCodes’ responsiveness and flexibility, both in terms of services and products was particularly prompt. Working with AudioCodes has strengthened our competitive position with the addition of quality voice services offered.”
AudioCodes Mediant™ 2000 and MediaPack™ Digital and Analog media gateways are being supplied to Astral through AudioCodes system integrator/partner, RAL Computers.
Lior Aldema, Vice President of Marketing for AudioCodes commented: “The delivery of voice services to one of the largest cable networks in Romania using our CPE equipment is important. We expect this project to encourage further deployments in major broadband networks as demonstrated by this successful venture.”
About the Mediant™ 2000 and MediaPack™ Series
The Mediant™ 2000 VoP Gateway is the cost-effective, entry-level member in the AudioCodes family of market-ready, standards-compliant, media gateway voice network products. Intelligently packaged in a stackable 1U chassis especially designed as CPE and for smaller locations in the carrier network market, the Mediant 2000 is the right-sized solution for small-scale (1 to 16 E1/T1s) needs.
The MediaPack™ Analog Media Gateway product family, ranging from 2 to 24 ports, connects analog telephone sets, fax machines, modem devices and PBXs to the IP network using FXO or FXS connectivity.
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AudioCodes is be exhibiting at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany from March 18th through March 24th in Hall 13, Booth #33. Media gateway products on display include AudioCodes’ IPM-260, TP-6310, Mediant 5000, Mediant 2000, MP-124 and MP-104.
About AudioCodes
AudioCodes Ltd. (NASDAQ: AUDC) enables the new voice infrastructure by providing innovative, reliable and cost-effective Voice over Packet technology and Voice Network products to OEMs, network equipment providers and system integrators. AudioCodes provides its customers and partners with a diverse range of flexible, comprehensive media gateway and media processing technologies, based on VoIPerfect™ – AudioCodes’ underlying, best-of-breed, core media gateway architecture. The company is a market leader in voice compression technology and is a key originator of the ITU G.723.1 standard for the emerging Voice over IP market. AudioCodes voice network products feature media gateway and media server platforms for packet-based applications in the wireline, wireless, broadband access, and enhanced voice services markets. AudioCodes enabling technology products include VoIP and CTI communication boards, VoIP media gateway processors and modules, and CPE devices. Its customers include the leading telecom and data network equipment providers globally. AudioCodes’ international headquarters and R&D facilities are located in Israel, with U.S. headquarters in San Jose, California. Additional offices are in Boston, Chicago, Beijing, Tokyo, Paris and London. For more information on AudioCodes, visit www.audiocodes.com or call +1 (408) 577-4088.
About ASTRAL Telecom
Astral Telecom S.A. is one of the leading Romanian integrated electronic communication services providers focused on delivering state of the art communication solutions.
Astral Telecom began its operations back in 1993 and positioned itself as a local cable television operator with headquarters in one of the most important historical and cultural centers of Transylvania – Cluj Napoca. Astral Telecom had developed and successfully expanded its services on a national level, and by the beginning of 2004, grew into a national communication services provider with a strong presence in over 700,000 dwelling units. The company’s cable operations are available at a national level in over 110 locations; at the same time the Internet services are available in over 30 of the most important Romanian counties. Astral signed interconnection agreements with landline operator Romtelecom and with both GSM 900 services providers, Connex and Orange. The IP telephony
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services are available in Bucharest, Cluj, Galati and Braila and will be extended in the future in several other important cities.
Products and services portfolio: Cable television services, Internet and data transmission services (Internet by cable, optic fiber, radio, leased lines; Intranet access in Astral metropolitan networks; VoIP transmissions; National connections and VPN; Domain hosting and administration; Web services: Web applications development, Intranet, Internet, e-commerce; Cable TV and Internet advertising: promotions and banners on Astral's TV Channel and Internet products: www.kappa.ro; www.k.ro; www.e-mail.ro) Fixed telephony services (International voice services (VOIP)). For more information on Astral, visit http://www.astral.ro.
Statements concerning AudioCodes' business outlook or future economic performance; product introductions and plans and objectives related thereto; and statements concerning assumptions made or expectations as to any future events, conditions, performance or other matters, are "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined under U.S. Federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements are subject to various risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated in such statements. These risks, uncertainties and factors include, but are not limited to: the effect of global economic conditions in general and conditions in AudioCodes' industry and target markets in particular; shifts in supply and demand; market acceptance of new products and continuing products' demand; the impact of competitive products and pricing on AudioCodes' and its customers' products and markets; timely product and technology development/upgrades and the ability to manage changes in market conditions as needed; and other factors detailed in AudioCodes' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AudioCodes assumes no obligation to update the information in this release.
AudioCodes, AC, Ardito, AudioCoded, NetCoder, TrunkPack, VoicePacketizer, MediaPack, Stretto, Mediant, VoIPerfect and IPmedia are trademarks or registered trademarks of AudioCodes Limited. All other products or trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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