GlobeNewswire
2011-07-07
New Qualified Products Include the Mediant 800 Enhanced
Gateway and Survivable Branch Appliance for Small Branch
Offices and the Mediant 3000 Highly Available Enhanced
Gateway for Large Enterprise Locations
LOD, Israel, July 7, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AudioCodes (Nasdaq:AUDC),
a leading provider of Voice over IP (VoIP) technologies, today
announced it has expanded its line of products qualified in Microsoft's
UC Open Interoperability Program for Microsoft Lync 2010. With the new
product announcements, AudioCodes is providing Enhanced Gateways and
Survivable Branch Appliances (SBAs) for any size of branch office or
business, ranging from small enterprise branches to very large
enterprise locations.
"We have been working very closely with AudioCodes for several years,"
said Kevin Carswell, Chairman and CEO of The Via Group. "The addition
of their high availability Mediant 3000 Enhanced Gateway for large
enterprise headquarters and regional offices and the Mediant 800
Enhanced Gateway and SBA for survivable branch solutions for small
locations to their Mediant 1000 and 2000 Enhanced Gateways and SBAs
enables The Via Group to offer our customers the most comprehensive
scaling and reliability options available on the market today from
AudioCodes."
"Ever since we started our Unified Communications Open Interoperability
Program, we've been working with AudioCodes," said Kapil Sharma,
principal group program manager, Lync Partner Engineering Team,
Microsoft Corp. "Mediant 800 SBA, announced by AudioCodes today, will
help our distributed enterprise customers provide cost-effective
survivable branch solutions for their small locations. The Mediant 3000
Enhanced Gateway will support large enterprise customers that need
highly available media gateways, supporting thousands of simultaneous,
high-quality calls between Lync clients and the Public Switched
Telephone Network."
The AudioCodes Mediant 800 SBA is based on the AudioCodes Mediant 800
Multi-Service Business Gateway with an integrated Dual Core, High
Performance Intel-based Server, FXS, FXO, BRI and E1/T1 PSTN interface
options, PoE switch, router and multiple WAN access options.
The Mediant 3000 Enhanced Gateway is a highly available, high density
Media Gateway for large enterprise locations, with up to 2000 PSTN
channels using E1/T1, T3 or STM-1/OC-3 connections, and integrated
Enterprise Session Border Controller.
"We are very pleased to once more extend our offerings to the expanding
community of Microsoft Lync customers and partners," stated Nimrod
Borovsky, Vice President of Marketing at AudioCodes. "Our large
community of VSPs has been working with us as a single stop shop, and
now can increase their ability to work with us even further. The new
Mediant 800 SBA and the Mediant 3000 are joining our market-proven
Mediant 1000, Mediant 2000 and other gateways and SBAs that support
Lync and are installed within Fortune 100 enterprises and service
providers. We are confident that, with our expanded solution offerings,
we will see a growing number of customers adopting Microsoft Lync and
joining the group of companies that enjoy additional ways of
collaborating."
AudioCodes will be exhibiting at the upcoming Microsoft WPC Conference,
Los Angeles, California, USA, demonstrating a number of new products in
booth #327.
About AudioCodes
AudioCodes Ltd. designs, develops and sells advanced Voice over IP
(VoIP) and converged VoIP and Data networking products and applications
to Service Providers and Enterprises. AudioCodes is a VoIP technology
market leader focused on converged VoIP & data communications and its
products are deployed globally in Broadband, Mobile, Cable, and
Enterprise networks. The company provides a range of innovative,
cost-effective products including Media Gateways, Multi-Service
Business Gateways, Session Border Controllers (SBC), Residential
Gateways, IP Phones, Media Servers and Value Added Applications.
AudioCodes' underlying technology, VoIPerfectHD(TM), relies on
AudioCodes' leadership in DSP, voice coding and voice processing
technologies. AudioCodes High Definition (HD) VoIP technologies and
products provide enhanced intelligibility and a better end user
communication experience in Voice communications. For more information
on AudioCodes, visit http://www.audiocodes.com
Statements concerning AudioCodes' business outlook or future economic
performance; product introductions and plans and objectives related
thereto; and statements concerning assumptions made or expectations as
to any future events, conditions, performance or other matters, are
"forward-looking statements'' as that term is defined under U.S.
Federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements are subject to
various risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from those stated in such statements.
These risks, uncertainties and factors include, but are not limited to:
the effect of global economic conditions in general and conditions in
AudioCodes' industry and target markets in particular; shifts in supply
and demand; market acceptance of new products and continuing products'
demand; the impact of competitive products and pricing on AudioCodes'
and its customers' products and markets; timely product and technology
development/upgrades and the ability to manage changes in market
conditions as needed; possible disruptions from acquisitions; the
integration of acquired companies' products and operations into
AudioCodes' business; and other factors detailed in AudioCodes' filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AudioCodes assumes no
obligation to update the information in this release.
(C)2011 AudioCodes Ltd. All rights reserved. AudioCodes, AC,
AudioCoded, Ardito, CTI2, CTI², CTI Squared, HD VoIP, HD VoIP
Sounds Better, InTouch, IPmedia, Mediant, MediaPack, NetCoder, Netrake,
Nuera, Open Solutions Network, OSN, Stretto, TrunkPack, VMAS,
VoicePacketizer, VoIPerfect, VoIPerfectHD, What's Inside Matters, Your
Gateway To VoIP and 3GX are trademarks or registered trademarks of
AudioCodes Limited. All other products or trademarks are property of
their respective owners. Product specifications are subject to change
without notice.
CONTACT: Shirley Nakar
AudioCodes
Tel: +972-3-976-4000
Shirley@audiocodes.com