IP Unity Launches Three-Phase Roadmap for Full IMS Compliance Across Mereon™ Product Suite; Company Turns IMS Vision into Reality, leveraging Media Resource Function (MRF), and Complete IMS Application Server

SUPERCOMM 2005, CHICAGO, Ill — June 7, 2005— IP Unity, a leader in carrier-grade media servers, application servers and real-time multimedia applications for IP and TDM networks, today became one of the first enhanced services platform providers to deliver an aggressive and market-driven multiphase roadmap for IMS compliance. Completion of this roadmap by mid-2006 will turn IP Unity's vision of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture into a tangible reality for service portability, rapid applications delivery and service personalization.

The company's new Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Keith Bhatia, announced his company's progressive roadmap for delivery of full IMS functionality across the company's suite of Mereon Media Server and Application Server products. The first phase, effective immediately and concurrent to IP Unity's new 3.0 software release, enables the Mereon Media Server platform to perform full Media Resource Function (MRF), and allows existing Mereon cable and fixed line customers to benefit from the rich media and fixed mobile convergence functions possible with the IMS architecture.

"With our Mereon 3.0 software now in controlled release, we have initiated Phase 1 on our roadmap. We are starting to fulfill the service intelligence functions needed for service portability and service personalization,” explained Dr. Bhatia. "IMS prescribes IP services which are seamlessly available across networks, across geographies and across end-user devices, through RFC3261 and SIP extension compliance. Our first-phase deliverables provide this compliance and meet the IMS parameters for a customized, personalized end-user experience. They provide the functions of multiple user identities, contact and group list management, dynamic and blended media sessions, the ability to handle personalized IMS sessions, profile management, call screening, call initiation/transfer/management, and IVR-based information service delivery. In addition, phase 1 allows transparency with our core applications of Voicemail, Unified Messaging and Conferencing.”

IP Unity's second IMS phase, in 3Q 2005, will transform the platform into a complete Application Server within the IMS environment. It will deliver a software development kit (SDK) and an ISC interface, which encompasses 3GPP specified standards for SIP signaling as well as other SIP extensions. The Mereon Application Server will enhance service scalability and create the infrastructure for carriers and third-party developers to build innovative applications. The enhanced Application Server will help IP Unity's partners who build prepaid and other call control applications on its platform to more easily transition to IMS architectures.

In early 2006, the third phase will add IPv6 to the pre-existing IPv4 addressing protocol on the same platform, as well as further security enhancements. It will also provide fully IMS-compliant real-time and non real-time enhancements to IP Unity's core applications of Voice Mail, Unified Messaging, Audioconferencing and Videomail/ Video-conferencing. This phase will also initiate

IP Unity's use of an ATCA architecture, deliver high-level API's based on XML and a powerful service execution engine. And most important to integrated fixed/mobile carriers, it will include broad interoperability with IP Unity partners on the applications-layer HSS database and SCIM functions, as well as the switching-layer CSCF function.

Completion of these milestones will enable creation of highly appealing and sticky ‘click-to' and ‘push-to' applications for cable, wireless and fixed networks, to be accessible over handhelds, PCs, set-top boxes, PDAs and other access devices. They will also enable video-sharing services and gaming applications.

"In the last two years, IP Unity has worked closely with our Japanese partners and customers on advanced multimedia opportunities. We have taken our lead from this market experience as well as from the 3GPP examples of feature innovation and service personalization within the mobile sector,” added Dr. Bhatia. "Our experience and successes, especially the appeal of new multimedia consumer services in Asia, helped us to sequence this roadmap in a very market-tuned fashion and to drive toward a segment-by-segment service customization of these applications. This will help carriers drive new revenues, reduce churn and increase ARPU using our service delivery platform. While it will take time for IMS architectures to be deployed as defined, IP Unity will be ready for customers who want to be at the head of the market, focusing on new applications and application bundles.”

In separate releases today, IP Unity also announced the Unified Messaging and Conferencing enhancements being released within the company's Mereon 3.0 software release, and the new Mereon 3000, a small-scale Media Server targeted to carriers with regional deployments and enterprise users.
The company will also demonstrate new technology implementations at SUPERCOMM 2005, in booth 74050.

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.

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