U4EA Tech Inc. Delivering QoS-enabled Unified Communications

"The Fusion 1000 Series incorporates the signaling expertise U4EA gained from the recent J6 Technology acquisition," said John Power, Managing Director of U4EA Ireland. "We are already seeing strong demand from both existing customers of J6 and new carrier and equipment supplier prospects."

U4EA Technologies Introduces Fusion 1000 Series Signaling Gateways
Family of Signaling Gateways Supports a Full Range of Legacy and Next Generation Protocols for Carriers and Service Providers

FREMONT, CA – December 18, 2007 – U4EA Technologies, a leading provider of integrated access technology for converged communications, today introduced the Fusion 1000 Series Signaling Gateways. These gateways facilitate the support of legacy ISDN and CAS signaling and the next generation suite of IP signaling protocols. With this introduction, U4EA brings additional voice signaling capabilities to its Fusion Series product portfolio, enabling U4EA products to serve the rapidly expanding carrier and service provider requirement to interconnect legacy and next generation network (NGN) equipment with their networks.

With the rapid acceleration of IP next generation networking, it is essential that carriers and service providers ensure their existing customer base is not left behind. There is still a large base of subscribers using legacy CAS and ISDN signaling protocols that need to access next generation networks that use the new suite of IP protocols. The U4EA Fusion 1000 Signaling Gateways support the full range of protocol conversion including:

The Fusion 1000 Series is built on industry standard blade server hardware and operating systems, and scales from an entry level 1U Fusion 1001 supporting up to 900 DS0s through the 8 blade Fusion 1008 to multiple 16 blade Fusion 1016s supporting several million DS0s. The key features and benefits of the Fusion 1000 Series include:

"The Fusion 1000 Series incorporates the signaling expertise U4EA gained from the recent J6 Technology acquisition," said John Power, Managing Director of U4EA Ireland. "We are already seeing strong demand from both existing customers of J6 and new carrier and equipment supplier prospects. U4EA has received great feedback on the new combined hardware and software platform, which will allow us to expand the marketing of our signaling gateway technology to the worldwide market."

About U4EA Technologies

U4EA Technologies is a leading provider of multi-service business gateways that enable service providers to deploy highly integrated, robust, and easy-to-manage IP communications solutions to SMB and enterprise customers. U4EA’s all-in-one customer premises devices, supported by the company’s revolutionary QoS (GoS™) mechanisms, ensure the secure, reliable and cost-effective delivery of converged VoIP, data and video services. The U4EA Fusion Series also includes next generation network signaling gateways, which enable carriers to interconnect legacy networks and equipment with Next Generation Networks. Founded in 1999, U4EA Technologies is a privately held company that is headquartered in Fremont, California, and has development, sales and marketing operations in Bristol, England; Nice, France; and Cork, Ireland. For more information, visit U4EA at www.u4eatech.com.

U4EA contact:

Jennifer Deitsch
U4EA Technologies Inc.
Phone: +1 925 831 2092
Mobile: +1 408 644 4859