Sipura Technology Accelerates the Voice over IP (VoIP) Market

Sipura Technology Accelerates the Voice over IP (VoIP) Market by Providing Key Technology to Linksys

Broadband phone company Vonage is the first service provider to deploy the products to subscribers.

SAN JOSE, CA – September 20, 2004 – In a move certain to advance the availability and acceptance of its state of the art technology, Sipura Technology announced today that it has licensed internally developed hardware and software technology to Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems, Inc. to be incorporated in consumer and SOHO networking gear. United States based broadband phone company Vonage is immediately supporting the Linksys devices for their residential and business subscribers.

The first devices to hit the market are a standalone analog telephone adapter (ATA) and two broadband routers with integrated voice capability. Linksys is marketing these devices under the names PAP2, RT31P2 and WRT54GP2, respectively. Regular analog telephones and fax machines can be connected to the devices that, when provisioned with service, will be able to place and receive phone calls over a DSL or cable broadband Internet connection providing call savings along with advanced telephony services like three party conferencing, call waiting, caller ID and distinctive ringing.

Sipura currently provides ATAs to the majority of the new entrant Voip service providers including; BroadVoice, Econophone (Switzerland), SIPMedia, Telio (Norway), VoicePulse and ZipGlobal. “Sipura branded products are used in many different residential and business applications by Voip service providers the world over,” said Jan Fandrianto, Sipura president and CEO. “By using our technology in their products, Linksys is able to deliver an instant winner to Vonage, with their subscribers the ultimate beneficiaries,” Fandrianto said. He went on to say, “We will continue to develop innovative Voip solutions for our customers so that they can provide differentiated, high-quality services to their subscribers.”

With its own product line of programmable, mass deployable Voip ATA solutions, Sipura Technology has established itself as a leading vendor in the highly competitive market for Voip customer premise equipment (CPE). Three Sipura branded ATA products are shipping today, with more to come in the near future. Sipura products available today are the SPA-1000, a one port ATA, the SPA-2000, a two port ATA and the SPA-3000, a combined one port ATA plus one port Voip gateway. Sipura Voip CPE stands out as the most advanced product in the marketplace based on the hundreds of configurable features, international applicability and dedicated customer support.

Sipura’s innovative implementation of the popular worldwide IP telephony standard Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is used in addition to their secure and sophisticated provisioning and firmware update technology. Sipura incorporates technologies like SIP, HTTPS, XML and multiple toll-quality voice coding algorithms to deliver CPE solutions to service providers and system integrators. Through licensing this powerful and proven technology, Sipura licensees like Linksys, are able to provide products that can be brought to market quickly and deployed with immediate interoperability in most broadband Voip service provider networks.

About Sipura Technology:

Sipura Technology, Inc., located in San Jose, California, delivers Voip endpoint products that are economically and functionally designed for large-scale global Voice over IP deployments. By providing exceptional value, Sipura Technology offers customers high quality products that support rapid service adoption with secure and sustainable growth. Web address: http://www.sipura.com