Aricent Wins TMC Product of the Year Award

Powerful Converged Access Solution Recognized for Outstanding Innovation and
Speeding Development of Multi-service Residential and Business Gateways

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Aricent(TM), a global innovation,
technology and service company focused exclusively on communications, today
announced that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has named its Converged
Access Software (CAS) as a recipient of a 2008 Communications Solutions
Product of the Year Award.

Aricent's CAS is a comprehensive software framework designed for equipment
manufacturers to simplify product development and shorten time to market for
innovative new residential and small business multi-service gateways. A
significant development jumpstart, Aricent's CAS can reduce time to market and
development costs by up to 75% as compared with completely organic approaches
or integrating different software products from multiple vendors.

According to In-Stat, multi-service business gateway (MSBG) devices will be
the means by which nearly all future technology is adopted in the SMB and
branch office market segment. MSBGs are defined as products purposely designed
for small business and branch office applications that integrate multiple
communication voice, data, and video functions into a single device. By 2012,
In-Stat forecasts the worldwide MSBG market will generate over US $2.7 billion
annually, and shipments will grow at a 33% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR)
over the next five years.

"Demand for multi-service solutions is accelerating across both the small
business and the residential communications landscape, driven by the need for
faster access, more sophisticated networking requirements, and growing price
sensitivity given current economic realities," said CP Murali, Senior Vice
President at Aricent. "Using our Converged Access Software, network equipment
manufacturers can quickly and efficiently introduce highly differentiated
gateway products for both markets, capitalizing on the multi-billion dollar
market for multi-service gateways."

CAS from Aricent is highly versatile, providing the foundation for a number of
different product categories including Residential/Home Gateways, Secure SMB
Routers, SIP-enabled Media Gateways and Multi-Services Business Gateways
(MSBGs). Leveraging the common CAS across multiple product lines further
reduces development complexity, cost and support resources. CAS enables the
creation of multiple product lines based on a single software platform, and
includes the following capabilities:

-- Routing & Switching - RIP v1/v2 OSPF v2 with MD5, Ethernet
interfaces, Ethernet Switching, 802.1x based port authentication,
RSTP,
MSTP and advanced VLAN management with GVRP
-- Wireless LAN - 802.11 a/b/g/n, support for multiple SSIDs, user
authentication based on 802.1x for each wireless client, and
WEP/WPA/WPA
2 encryption
-- Quality of Service (QoS) / Traffic Management - Advanced QoS features
based on fields like Source IP, Destination IP, VLAN ID, DSCP value,
interface and protocol, 802.1p, DiffServ, and class based queuing
-- VPNs and Security Services - IPSec VPN, stateful inspection firewall,
DoS mitigation, NAT and common ALGs
-- Voice Services - Session Border Controller services including SIP
Proxy,
Registrar, Call Admission Control (CAC), Survivable Remote Site
Telephony (SRST) and other key enterprise centric SIP enabled voice
services
-- Management - Complete management with SNMP v1/v2/v3, CLI,
user-friendly
Web UI, SSH, and integrated TR-069 for zero-touch remote management

-- Interface Support - xDSL, T1/E1, PPP, ML-PPP and Ethernet

"Aricent has been recognized with a 2008 Product of the Year Award for their
excellence in the advancement of voice, data and/or video communications,"
said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief. "Aricent has
proven they are committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit
the customer experience as well as ROI for the companies that use them. I am
pleased to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more
innovative solutions from them in the future."

The Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the vision,
leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the prestigious
award. The most innovative products and services brought to market in 2008
were selected as recipients of this year's Communications Solutions Product of
the Year Award for their groundbreaking achievement.

The 2008 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award winners can be
found on the INTERNET TELEPHONY and Customer Interaction Solutions Web site.

About Aricent
Aricent is a global innovation, technology and services company focused
exclusively on communications. Aricent combines the leading innovation
capabilities of frog design with unparalleled domain expertise in
communications as a strategic supplier to the world's foremost infrastructure,
application and service providers. The company's investors include Kohlberg
Kravis Roberts & Co., Sequoia Capital, The Family Office and Flextronics
International Ltd. For more information, visit http://www.aricent.com.

For more information about Aricent's CAS, visit: http://www.aricent.com/cas

About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global integrated media company
helping our clients build communities in print, in person and online. TMC
publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified
Communications, and NGN Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading
source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries.
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Sites placing TMCnet in the top .03% most visited Web sites in the US. In
addition, TMC produces ITEXPO, 4GWE Conference, Digium|Asterisk World and
Communications Developer Conference.

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Keywords & tags: converged access solutions, CAS, multiservice business
gateways, MSBC, next generation networks, femtocells

SOURCE Aricent

Steve Manuel, Sr. Director, Corporate Marketing of Aricent, +1-650-391-1621,
steven.manuel@aricent.com; or Americas, Chris Lalli of Cohn & Wolfe,
+1-415-365-8540, chris.lalli@cohnwolfe.com; or Europe, Paula Muezerie of
AxiCom, +44 208 392 4081, aricent@axicom.com; or India, Shikha Singh Sehrawat
of Text 100, +91 981 175 7369, shikhas@text100.co.in, all for Aricent; or Jan
Pierret, Marketing Manager of Technology Marketing Corporation,
+1-203-852-6800, ext. 228, jpierret@tmcnet.com