Voiceboard Awarded

Internet Telephony Magazine's

Product of the Year for

the Industry's First

480 Port Single Blade

H.323 VoIP Gateway

for cPCI and VME Systems

Oxnard, CA, January 2003 - Voiceboard Corporation has won Internet Telephony Magazine's 2002 "Product of the Year" award for their Single Blade Gateway (SBG) product, the industry's first high density, 480 Port Single Blade H.323 VoIP Gateway for cPCI and VME Systems.

"This is a strong acknowledgement of our innovative technology approach of delivering enormous cost saving benefits to our OEM and integrator partners," said Greg Peacock, CTO at Voiceboard. "By pre-porting H.323 software stack and working with Texas Instrument's Telogy Software for VoIP, we eliminated an average of 9-12 months of intense engineering development effort for our OEM and integrator partners, resulting in accelerated time-to-market and increased return on investment. "

Voiceboard's board level hardware, pre-integrated with H.323 protocols and VoIP software from Texas Instruments, presents communications equipment manufacturers with an optimized cost/performance solution and the opportunity to quickly build highly scalable and reliable network elements. An OEM has the flexibility of using Voiceboard's embedded VoIP Gateway or implementing their own gateway. Control of the SBG gateway may be via an H.323 Gatekeeper, Softswitch or the OEM's custom application integrated onto the SBG's embedded PowerPC processor.

Voiceboard's SBG product series includes software selectable T1/E1/J1 network access, DSP VoIP media processing, embedded H.323 stack and dual 100BaseT IP network connections. The SBG H.323 Gateway supports 60 to 480 ports for VoIP gateway, IP PBX, Universal Messaging, service provider Intelligent Peripheral and Call Center system applications. Systems built on Voiceboard's SBG H.323 Gateway blade are scaleable to thousands of voice channels in a single chassis.

Voiceboard's H.323 meets ITU-T industry standards, including H.323 V4; H.225 Q.931, RAS and RTP/RTCP; H.245 Call control and channel usage and capabilities negotiation; H.341 SNMP MIB; Annex D T.38 fax; Annex E Multiplexed UDP; Annex K HTTP; Annex L Signaling with MEGACO tunneled in H.225.0; Annex M QSIG and SS7 ISUP transport layer; H.450.x Supplementary Services: Call Transfer (H.450.2), Call Diversion (H.450.3), Call Hold (H.450.4), Call Waiting (H.450.6), Message Waiting (H.450.7) and Call Intrusion (H.450.11).