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FOR: UBIQUITY SOFTWARE CORPORATION
SEPTEMBER 28, 1999
Ubiquity Software Joins Sonus' Open Services Partner
Alliance: Companies to Collaborate on Product
Interoperability, Co-Marketing and Sales Initiatives
WESTFORD, MASSACHUSETTS--Sonus Networks today announced that
Ubiquity Software Corporation has joined Sonus' Open Services
Partner Alliance (OSPA). With nearly 20 participating vendors,
the OSPA allows carriers, application service providers,
third-party independent service developers (ISDs) and telephony
system software providers to rapidly develop and deliver
competitive customer services and applications based on the Sonus
Networks Open Services Architecture(tm) (OSA).
As part of their activities in the Alliance, Sonus and Ubiquity
will undertake initiatives to ensure interoperability between the
companies' product lines. Additionally, the two companies will
implement a co-marketing program and reference selling program,
which will focus on helping service providers speed the process of
identifying, selecting and deploying enhanced IP services in
carrier networks.
"We are very excited to be working with an innovative market
leader such as Sonus Networks," said Martin Sendyk, vice
president, product marketing and general manager at Ubiquity.
"Ubiquity's Helmsman(r) Service Creation Environment coupled with
Sonus' advanced carrier-class networking products will put new
power in the hands of enhanced IP service providers. Our
partnership will allow these next-generation carriers to extend
value-added IP services all the way to the end user's desktop."
"Today, everyone is trying to get a leg up on the competition, but
only those carriers who identify, and rapidly deploy, the right
combination of value-added services will succeed," said Gary
Rogers, Sonus' vice president of sales and marketing. "We believe
this partnership with Ubiquity will bring our carrier customers
significant benefit, and we look forward to working together to
further the broad-scale deployment of packet telephony solutions."
Enhanced IP service providers use Ubiquity's Helmsman Server and
Service Creation Environment to rapidly build and deploy
next-generation, revenue-generating services over IP networks.
Working together in the Alliance, Ubiquity and Sonus will provide
an advanced form of Application Power Networking by creating a
direct interaction between business processes, the global
telephone network and the Internet.
As part of their membership in the OSPA, Ubiquity will also
collaborate with Sonus in a range of co-marketing and sales
activities programs. These programs will include joint
participation in industry events and conferences, online marketing
opportunities, training seminars, reference selling and more.
About the Open Services Partner Alliance
Launched in June 1999, the OSPA has gained significant industry
momentum, with membership of nearly 20 leading independent vendors
offering subscriber-specified and user-provisioned services for
the New Public Network. The OSPA gives carriers the flexibility
to both develop and integrate "best of breed" applications,
creating important new revenue streams. For participating
partners, the OSPA provides open, published APIs, comprehensive
developer tools, testing and support services, technology
exchanges and co-marketing and sales activities. Equally
important, the Alliance provides a unified customer/vendor forum
for creating interoperable standards and technologies. Additional
information on the OSPA is available at:
sonusnet.com.
About Ubiquity
Ubiquity develops Application Powered Networks(tm), providing
direct interaction between business processes, the global
telephone network and the Internet, for Corporate and Carrier
customers to create premium differentiated computer telephony
services. The Helmsman product suite unites a complex array of
telecom and IP resources with custom and industry standard
software applications. Ubiquity is the recipient of four
consecutive UK National Research and development awards since 1994
and was the overall winner of the National Multimedia and
Innovation Award in 1995. The Company has offices located in
Newport, South Wales and Kanata, Ontario, Canada. Ubiquity
Software is an Affiliate of Newbridge Networks Corporation.
Additional information is available at: ubiquity.net.
About Sonus Networks
Sonus Networks, Inc. is delivering a new class of carrier
solutions that enable the movement of telephony to converged
packet networks and the development of a new generation of
innovative voice and data services. The award-winning Sonus
Packet Telephony suite and Open Services Architecture (OSA) cut
the time-to-market for competitive new service products from years
to weeks, allowing carriers and third-party developers to sustain
and expand marketshare, and build important new revenue streams.
Its highly scalable products fully interoperate with and extend
the life and utility of today's public network. Sonus, founded in
1997, is headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts and is privately
held. Additional information is available at:
sonusnet.com.
Open Services Architecture is a trademark of Sonus Networks. All
other company and product names may be trademarks of the
respective companies with which they are associated.
Helmsman and Ubiquity are registered trademarks of Ubiquity
Software Corporation Ltd.(c) 1999 Ubiquity Software Corporation
Limited. All rights reserved.
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