Innovative new products help VoIP Gateway provider secure inclusion in the industry acclaimed list

27th September 2004

London, UK, 27th September 2004: VegaStream, the leading supplier of dedicated business VoIP (Voice over IP) Gateways, announced today that it has been selected as part of the pulver 100. The pulver 100 Awards are designed to recognize 100 private companies in the global communications sector that have achieved exceptional real-world deployments and enjoyed significant growth rates in the past 12 months.

Since it was founded in 1998, VegaStream's focus has been the seamless interoperability between the huge and varied legacy of PSTN interfaces and new IP networks. As one of the earliest suppliers of VoIP gateways supporting SIP the company has experienced quarter-on-quarter growth for the last 6 quarters. Today VegaStream's portfolio of gateways are recognised as best-in-class SIP VoIP gateways for products such as Nortel Networks MCS5100, MCS5200 and Siemens OpenScape.

Other major achievements include VegaStream's partnering with other suppliers of VoIP applications such as leading edge voice recognition, voice response and VoIP over mobile products, enabling connectivity between their products and traditional PSTN networks. The company has also recently been deployed by major global service provider networks such as Primus Communications and won contracts with the US Navy. In addition to these headline deployments, VegaStream gateways are increasingly being deployed in mainstream enterprise networks to reduce the cost of everyday business communications.

"The pulver 100 list seeks to include the companies that represent the future of the communications ecosystem. We believe the value chain characterized by the companies included in 2004's pulver 100 differs substantially from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century," said Jeff Pulver. "VegaStream has shown dedication to the communications industry.With considerable expansion over the past 6 years it is beginning to show real momentum and has proved itself as a valued member of the pulver 100 list."

"VegaStream's VoIP gateways have been deployed by organizations world wide to enable them to enjoy the advantages of VoIP such as flexibility and low call costs, " said Tim Burne CEO VegaStream. "VegaStream has shown exceptional growth in the past 12 months and introduction of innovative new products to our portfolio of VoIP gateways has meant that even more government organizations, enterprises and service providers are realizing the benefits of a fully open and interoperable VoIP solution."

VegaStream will be exhibiting at Fall VON 2004 Conference & Expo, Boston, MA 18th - 21st Oct on stand 841.

About Pulver
Originally introduced in 2002, the pulver 100 features private companies in the communications sector that have substantial real-world deployments and enjoy significant growth rates. The value chain characterized by pulver 100 differs from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century, focusing more on a networking-industry model that espouses open interfaces, connectivity decoupled from services, and software decoupled from hardware.

For additional details on the 2004 pulver 100, please visit www.pulver.com/pulver100/