Charles Rutledge, Vice President of Marketing, to Address Leading VoIP Conference in Fort Lauderdale – Broward County Convention Center

NORWALK, CT (January 5, 2005) -- Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®) announces today that Charles Rutledge, Vice President of Marketing for Quintum Technologies, has agreed to deliver a keynote address at its INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2006, January 24-27, 2006 at the Fort Lauderdale–Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Mr. Rutledge’s address, which is open to all registered attendees, will take place Thursday, January 26th at 5:15pm EST. Registration for the conference is now open at http://www.itexpo.com.

INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, held since 1999, is the world’s largest and best-attended VoIP trade show. Last October, TMC’s INTERNET TELEPHONY attracted over 7,000 buyers and sellers of IP Telephony products and services. For this upcoming January show, TMC projects total attendance to exceed 8,500.

“Quintum Technologies is a true VoIP success story. Their innovation has helped Quintum become a leading VoIP provider, competing and succeeding in a market with much larger companies. I’ve known Chuck Rutledge for many, many years and am certain the audience at INTERNET TELEPHONY will benefit from his unique perspective on how VoIP technologies can help their organizations become more efficient and more effective,” declared TMC president, Rich Tehrani.

Mr. Rutledge has twenty years of experience in the communications industry. He has held positions in marketing, business development, product management and engineering. As Business Development Director at AT&T, he worked with telephone, cable and power companies to establish relationships for the deployment and marketing of a variety of communications services. While at AT&T, Mr. Rutledge worked on the Time Warner Entertainment joint venture and managed the AT&T/Viacom Interactive Television trial. Mr. Rutledge started his career in Bell Laboratories research and holds multiple patents.

“It is both a pleasure and an honor to be delivering a Keynote address at the Internet Telephony conference this year,” said Chuck Rutledge, Vice President of Marketing for Quintum. “Quintum has participated in this conference since its inception, and we always find that it is a venue where the industry leaders come to meet and share new ideas. Quintum will also be utilizing its presence at this show to make a number of announcements regarding its VoIP Switches and gateways that are ‘the perfect fit’ for access solutions.”

In addition to Charles Rutledge’s appearance, INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2006 features keynotes by Tom Ridge, CNBC anchor Ron Insana and executives from IBM, Cisco, AT&T, Aculab, General Motors, Digium, Avaya, Covad, Pingtel, Nortel, Level 3, NetCentrex, Interactive Intelligence, Time Warner Telecom, AudioCodes and Expedient Systems.
Registration for the conference and trade show is now open: http://www.itexpo.com. Vendors interested in exhibiting or sponsoring should contact Dave Rodriguez immediately at 1-203-852-6800, ext. 146 or e-mail [email protected].

Press inquiries regarding Charles Rutledge’s address can be directed to Mostafa Razzak at 23-31 Communications: (646) 442-3361 or email [email protected].

About Quintum
Headquartered in Eatontown, NJ, Quintum specializes in voice-over-IP technologies that bring reliability and voice clarity of public telephone networks to Internet telephony. Its Tenor VoIP MultiPath switch product lines are designed to help businesses of all sizes achieve a risk free migration to a converged network. Quintum’s Tenor product line offers a wide range of unique features that differentiate it from other VoIP solutions. These features include real time PSTN failover that eliminates risk from poor IP Quality of Service, MultiPath call routing allowing easy installation into existing data and telecom environments, and transparent communication across NAT (network address translation) firewalls. Quintum Technologies sells its MultiPath switches worldwide through its direct sales force and a network of resellers and distributors. For more information call 1-877-SPEAK IP (1-877-773-2547), 732-460-9000 outside the US, or visit http://www.quintum.com.

About TMC®
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print magazines: Customer Interaction Solutions, Internet Telephony, SIP Magazine and IMS Magazine; as well as the digital publications, Speech-World, WiFI Telephony Magazine, VoIP Developer, IPTV Magazine and WiMAX Magazine. TMC also produces TMCnet, the world’s leading communications and technology Web site. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The VoIP Developer Conference, Speech-World Conference, IP Contact Center Summit and The Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit. TMCnet, ranked among the top 2,500 Web sites in the World by Alexa.com, publishes more than 20 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit http://www.tmcnet.com.