IP Unity and Leapstone Systems Partner on IP Service Bundling and Provisioning for Top-Tier Carriers

IP Unity is the carrier's first choice for critical applications such as messaging, conferencing, video and integrated communications features over all-IP and blended IP/TDM networks. Its innovative and cost-disruptive approach delivers many services via a single platform. IP Unity's HMS6000Ô Media Server is core to this platform -- it tightly integrates with traditional and IP wireline, cable and wireless networks, and easily enables bundling and customization of features by market and by user group.

Leapstone provides open, flexible software that lets operators design, package, deploy and manage a broad range of compelling content and services. As a foundation for VoIP service deployment, Leapstone's CCE serviceBROKER optimizes service flexibility and speeds time to market, enabling operators to create differentiated service packages for rapid delivery to their market segments.

Leapstone's CCE serviceBROKER has completed pre-integration interoperability testing with 19 network elements and three commercial OSS systems, ensuring that carriers can work with best-in-class elements in their service delivery architectures. In similar fashion, IP Unity's HMS6000 platform has completed 23 interoperability tests with major softswitches, media gateways, session controllers and SIP phones for consumer and hosted enterprise services, to facilitate open IP service solutions.

"The pairing of feature-enabling systems like IP Unity's HMS6000 with service delivery software such as Leapstone's serviceBROKER results in a valuable combination of front-end and back-end capabilities," stated Senior Analyst Danny Klein, with Yankee Group's Communications Network Infrastructure Group. "Especially for an RBOC-scale carrier, these critical functions must work hand-in-hand to ensure rapid service introduction, scalability and stable deployment costs."

"We are extremely gratified by the appeal that our products have generated with incumbents, IXCs and RBOCs, and this appeal is being further enhanced through our partnership with IP Unity's award-winning Unified Messaging, Conferencing and Collaboration feature sets," stated Leapstone President and CEO Rick Orriss. "We are working hard to move these highly compatible solutions out to all of our key target markets. As fellow Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) members, we expect that the results of the recently completed Global MSF Interoperability Event (GMI) 2004 will further demonstrate to the industry the value of the open platforms and service architectures that Leapstone and IP Unity offer."

"Leapstone Systems brings great value to both incumbent and next generation carriers," stated IP Unity SVP Business Development, Dr. Keith Bhatia. "The company's depth of experience with top-tier carriers and great momentum from its win at Verizon Wireless match well with IP Unity's expertise in IP feature sets and very large deployments at RBOCs and cable operators. The interactions we have had with Leapstone through joint customer activities and the MSF GMI event have been extremely rewarding. We look forward to collaborating with them on joint marketing and on many more high-impact wins with carriers demanding the highest performance in terms of new feature activation and seamless, rapid service delivery."

About Movius
Movius Interactive Corporation gives people the power to enrich their lives through viable innovations that transform the way they interact with information, media and each other. Formally under the name IP Unity Glenayre, Movius is a recognized leader in messaging, collaboration and mobile media solutions for service providers worldwide.

For more information, please visit www.moviuscorp.com.

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