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Veraz Launches SmartLink Solution Enabling End-to-End CompressionWhile Preserving Voice Quality

^{Published on 2008-11-18 05:56:27 - Market Wire}
 

SAN JOSE, Calif.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--[ Veraz Networks, Inc ]., (NASDAQ:VRAZ) the leading provider of [ Multimedia Generation Network ] application, control, and [ bandwidth optimization ] products, today announced SmartLink, an end-to-end compression solution for Veraz's I-Gate 4000 media gateways. Veraz's SmartLink allows voice calls to traverse multiple pairs of [ I-Gate 4000 ] media gateways without sacrificing voice quality, enabling service providers to maximize bandwidth optimization and reduce overall costs while maintaining high quality service.

Service providers are increasingly looking for bandwidth compression technology to lower their transmission costs and reduce operating expenses. However, other compression solutions force traffic through multiple compression/decompression cycles, which degrades voice quality below an acceptable level. Veraz's SmartLink technology compresses voice traffic just once and decompresses it only when it reaches its end point, thereby preserving the highest voice quality. The Veraz SmartLink solution is based on a self-aware network-wide algorithm that manages compression and decompression in real time.

Furthermore, service providers can implement Veraz's new end-to-end compression without modifying their existing switches or transmission equipment. It requires no changes in call routing, provisioning, lawful interception or call monitoring.

"In today's highly competitive environment, service providers need to aggressively reduce their costs," noted [ Eyal Hilzenrat ], Veraz VP, Bandwidth Optimization Products. "Veraz's SmartLink end-to-end compression solution enables a service provider to both lower transport costs while maximizing quality."

Veraz Networks is the leader in the development and deployment of advanced bandwidth optimization products for both TDM and IP networks. With the addition of the SmartLink solution, Veraz continues to provide the most flexible and highest performing bandwidth optimization capabilities for both TDM and IP bandwidth optimization to fixed and mobile network operators. SmartLink is currently in trial with several service providers.

About Veraz Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRAZ)

Veraz Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRAZ), is the leading provider of application, control, and bandwidth optimization products that enable the evolution to the Multimedia Generation Network (MGN). Service providers worldwide use the Veraz MGN portfolio to extend their current application suite and rapidly add customized multimedia services that drive revenue and ensure customer retention. The Veraz MGN separates the control, media, and application layers while unifying management of the network, thereby increasing service provider operating efficiency. Wireline and wireless service providers in over 50 countries have deployed products from the Veraz MGN portfolio, which includes the ControlSwitch™, Network-adaptive Border Controller, I-Gate 4000 Media Gateways, the VerazView Management System, and a set of prepackaged applications. Please visit [ www.veraznetworks.com ].

This press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding future events that involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these forward-looking statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include but are not limited to, sales and markets for the Veraz I-Gate 4000 End-to-End Compression feature, the Veraz SmartLink solution and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information about these and other risks that may impact Veraz' business is set forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007, and the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings are available on a website maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at [ http://www.sec.gov ]. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

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