America's Growth Capital to Host Webinar on IP Essentials

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Leading Independent VoIP Analyst Jon Arnold to Join AGC's Senior
   Research Analyst Catharine Trebnick in Discussion of Key Changes
                  Facing the Communications Industry
BOSTON--(Business Wire)--America's Growth Capital, an emerging growth-focused, research,
trading and investment banking partnership, announced today that they
will be hosting "IP Essentials," a webinar focused on recent trends in
the communications infrastructure industry, on Friday, February 1st at
1:00 P.M. (EST). The event will be hosted by Catharine Trebnick,
America's Growth Capital's Senior Research Analyst, and will feature
participation by Jon Arnold, a leading independent voice on the
telecom industry. The webinar serves as a follow-up to Catharine's
recent publication of an industry white paper on the same topic. This
is an invitation-only event. See below for details on requesting an
invitation.

   Webinar Details:

   Title: "IP Essentials"

   Date: Friday, February 1, 2008

   Time: 1:00 p.m. EST

   To Request an Invitation: Go to www.americasgc.com/IPessentials or
contact the AGC Sales and Trading team at 617-261-4111.

   Overview: Ubiquitous broadband access and mobility have demanded
new product functionality and expanded markets for Session Border
Controllers (SBCs), Security Gateways, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI),
and Policy Management solutions. The IP/IMS network mantra has
replaced VoIP and is a unifying architecture. This webinar will
discuss megatrends, the suppliers, the operators, and the role of
evolving standards such as ATCA, 3GPP and IMS in adoption. This will
be a general overview of the operators' network which has evolved into
a complex landscape that has moved beyond softswitches and media
gateways.

   About America's Growth Capital:

   America's Growth Capital is a full-service, boutique investment
bank with offices in Boston, MA and San Francisco, CA. The firm's 67
transactions since inception (August, 2003) have ranged in size from
$6 million to $1 billion and have included buyouts, buy-side and
sell-side advisory assignments (including cross-border transactions),
PIPEs, IPOs, Follow-ons, private placements and fairness opinions.
AGC's core industry focus areas include technology, business services,
digital media, Internet and healthcare. America's Growth Capital is a
member of FINRA and SIPC.

   About Jon Arnold:

   Jon Arnold is an Independent VoIP Analyst who has consulted with
many of the private companies featured in Catharine's recent industry
white paper, "IP Essentials." His key areas of expertise include:

   --  VoIP vendors and market positioning - media gateways,
        softswitches, application servers, media servers, session
        border controllers, security;

   --  Residential market - VoIP, Peer-to-Peer, Triple Play, IPTV,
        FMC, mobile video, WiFi/WiMax, Web 2.0, social media;

   --  Enterprise VoIP - adoption trends by type and size of
        enterprise/SMB - IP telephony, Peer-to-Peer, Open Source,
        hosted/managed services, IP/SIP trunking, videoconferencing,
        telepresence.

America's Growth Capital
Rick Faubert, 617-261-4148
rfaubert@americasgc.com

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