[July 13, 2007] Ingate® Systems to Present Conference Session at INTERNET TELEPHONY® Conference & EXPO West 2007 Tweet Steven Johnson to Discuss SIP Trunking at IP Communications Industry Leading Event at Los Angeles Convention Center in September HOLLIS, NH -- July 13, 2007 — Ingate® Systems (www.ingate.com), which develops firewall technology and products that enable SIP-based live communication for the enterprise while maintaining control and security at the network edge, today announced that Ingate President Steven Johnson will present a session titled, “SIP Trunking From 10,000 Feet” at TMC (News - Alert)’s INTERNET TELEPHONY® Conference & EXPO West 2007 on September 10 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. “There’s a great deal of interest for information about SIP trunking among the enterprise community,” said Johnson. “We are delighted to be presenting on this informative panel, which will provide an overview of deployment issues, opportunities and solutions.” Additionally, Ingate will be partnering with TMC, leading IP-PBX vendors, SIP trunking service providers and industry thought leaders to offer a series of educational seminars on SIP trunking at the ITEXPO. Entitled, “SIP Trunking: Everything You Need to Know,” these seminars will be held on-site September 10-11. INTERNET TELEPHONY® Conference & EXPO, held September 10-12, 2007, is the world’s largest and best-attended IP communications trade show. At the last ITEXPO, the show drew more than 7,100 buyers and sellers of IP Communications products and services. For the upcoming show in September, TMC projects an attendance of 7,500. More information on the event can be found at www.itexpo.com. “We are very pleased that Steve will be participating in this year’s show. Ingate Systems (News - Alert) is widely recognized and respected as an industry leader, and I am confident that our attendees will appreciate and value the opportunity to hear Steve’s perspective on SIP trunking,” said TMC president and conference chairman, Rich Tehrani. “Over the past twelve months, widespread deployment of IP communications services by global service providers, businesses and governments has reinforced that this exciting technology is a viable, cost-effective communications solution. As a result, we are seeing a significant number of senior-level executives attending INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO to learn more about the technology so they can make critical decisions affecting their own business.” Registration for the show is now open. Anyone interested may register by visiting www.itexpo.com. Limited booth space is still available as well. Vendors interested in exhibiting at the show should contact Dave Rodriguez at 1-203-852-6800, ext. 146 or at [email protected]. About TMC® Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, SIP Magazine, Unified Communications (News - Alert), and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 3,000 sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves more than one million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Communications Developer Conference, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. About Ingate® Systems Ingate® Systems develops firewall technology and products that enable SIP-based live communication for the enterprise while maintaining control and security at the network edge. Ingate has a long history of developing next-generation firewall technology that solves the NAT/firewall traversal issue with SIP communications. In addition to an extensive line of Ingate Firewalls®, the company also produces the award-winning Ingate SIParator®, a device that connects to an existing network firewall to seamlessly enable SIP communications. Ingate products currently protect the networks of retail companies, financial institutions, industrial firms, government agencies and small-to-large enterprises throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Additionally, Ingate has established the SIP Trunking Network at www.siptrunk.org, an educational resource that aggregates information from throughout the SIP trunking community in an industry-wide effort to educate enterprises about SIP trunking, to help simplify deployments. Ingate Systems AB is headquartered in Sweden with offices in Stockholm and Linköping. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Ingate Systems Inc., is located in Hollis, New Hampshire, with a U.S. technology center in Frisco, Texas. For more information on Ingate Systems, visit www.ingate.com. ### For more information, please contact: Hillary Call, Public Relations Manager ? Ingate Systems ? (917) 414-9262 ? SIP and email: [email protected] TMC Contact: Michael Genaro 203-852-6800, ext. 142 [email protected] (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.) 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