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Audiocodes Ltd. — Regulatory Filings 2008
Apr 28, 2008
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Regulatory Filings
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P R E S S R E L E A S E
Contacts Shirley Nakar AudioCodes Tel: +972-3-976-4000 [email protected]
Jeff Touzeau Director of Corporate Communications Westcon Group, Inc. +1 (914) 829-7388 [email protected]
Westcon Group Selects AudioCodes for CollaborationPoint OpenSource and ConvergencePoint Programs
Westcon Combines AudioCodes Media Gateway Products with Nortel, Avaya, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Popular Digium|Asterisk® Open Source IP-PBX, to Deliver IP Communications Solutions
Lod, Israel and Tarrytown, NY, April 28, 2008 , AudioCodes (NasdaqGS: AUDC), a leading provider of Voice over Packet (VOP) technologies and Voice Network products, and Westcon Group, Inc. , the leading specialty distributor in networking, convergence, security and mobility, announced that AudioCodes media gateway products have been selected for Westcon Group’s CollaborationPoint OpenSource and ConvergencePoint solutions programs, providing resellers with the ability to deliver business-class communication solutions to their end-user communities.
CollaborationPoint OpenSource is the latest addition to Westcon Group’s technology focused x-Point programs and is being offered alongside ConvergencePoint, SecurityPoint and MobilityPoint.
AudioCodes’ media gateway products solve important connectivity challenges between next-generation enterprise IP communication solutions and a wide range of legacy PSTN circuits and analog phone equipment. Through this arrangement, Westcon Group will distribute a range of AudioCodes Mediant™ 1000, MediaPack™ and TrunkPack™ 260/SIP Gateway products for Nortel, Avaya, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, and offer Open Source specific solutions pre-integrated with open source software applications, including the popular Digium|Asterisk® IP-PBX.
In addition to gateway solutions , Westcon Group will also offer customized configurations that leverage the AudioCodes Mediant 1000 Open Solution Network (OSN) processor module, which includes an embedded PC processor, memory and storage, allowing the open source application to reside within the media gateway and enable a complete enterprise communications solution in a compact 1U form-factor appliance.
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Lior Aldema, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at AudioCodes, stated, “Westcon’s CollaborationPoint OpenSource and ConvergencePoint programs offer one-stop-shopping for enterprise solution resellers that want to sell sophisticated open source or commercial solutions while eliminating much of the integration risk that has kept many resellers on the sidelines. These robust programs reduce risk and better position resellers who want to take advantage of these exciting new market opportunities.”
“AudioCodes offers superior voice quality, broad interoperability, feature richness and diversity of PSTN protocols—each of which is supported by their media gateways,” commented Dan Pirro, Group Commercial Sales Manager, Westcon Group, Inc. “The quality and compatibility of these solutions will help us significantly broaden the range of possible deployments in complex enterprise applications."
About Westcon Group
Westcon Group, Inc. is the leading specialty distributor in networking, security, mobility and convergence for leading technology vendors, including Cisco, Nortel, Avaya and Polycom. Through its Westcon, Comstor and Voda One business practices, Westcon Group sells products and services to resellers, systems integrators and service providers. Westcon Group has particular expertise in the convergence of voice, data and video applications and technologies, including voice-over Internet protocol, or VoIP, security for networking and communications systems, remote access, Internet and e-business, virtual private networks, videoconferencing and wireless connectivity. For more information, visit www.westcongroup.com.
About AudioCodes
AudioCodes Ltd. (NasdaqGS: AUDC) enables the new voice infrastructure by providing innovative, reliable and cost-effective V oice 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 converged, 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’ headquarters and R&D facilities are located in Israel with an R&D extension in the U.S. Other AudioCodes’ offices are located in Europe, the Far East, and Latin America. For more information on AudioCodes, visit www.audiocodes.com.
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. Forwardlooking statements are subject to various risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially
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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 and Your Gateway to VoIP are trademarks or registered trademarks of AudioCodes Limited. All other products or trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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