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TMC Names Best of Show Winners From INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO Fall 2003

[November 14, 2003]

TMC Names Best of Show Winners From INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO Fall 2003

Technology Marketing Corporation, TMC, today announced the winners of its prestigious “Best of Show” award at the recently concluded INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO Fall 2003 in Long Beach, CA. (http://www.itexpo.com). Show exhibitors whose products demonstrated innovation and vision were singled out for the honor.

INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, held twice a year, is the leading event focused on VoIP and other IP telephony-based solutions. The conference and expo attracts small and large enterprises, government agencies and service providers seeking equipment and services; as well as developers and resellers. The Fall 2003 event was the eighth conducted by TMC, and was their most well-attended show since October, 2000.

The following companies and their products were awarded the “Best of Show” designation:

Company Product
AICO Systems TalkPro U-100
AltiGen Communications AltiContact Manager
Arrayvox IP Contact Center, Billing, IVR, and Switch
Artisoft TeleVantage
EADS Telecom PointSpan M6550
eOn Communications eQueue Multi-Media Contact Center Solution
Grandstream HandyTone-286
Interactive Intelligence Enterprise Interaction Center (EIC)
Inter-Tel Unified Communicator 2.0 Presence Management Application
MERA Networks Mera VoIP Transit Softswitch
Multi-Tech Systems MultiVoIP VoIP Gateway
NEC NEC UNIVERGE
Net6 Net6 Application Gateway
NextWest NextWest PCXi
Qovia Qovia Manager
Quintum Technologies Tenor Call Relay SP Session Border Controller
Real East Networks Softswitch RSF1000 IP Centrex solution
Telephony @ Work CallCenter@nywhere
Teliann TeliPhone IP Telephone
Telkus GBill — Next Generation IP Billing Platform
VoIP Americas TurnkeyVoIP

“With each event, the solutions displayed on the exhibit floor become more and more impressive, making the selection of Best of Show winners so difficult. In their own way, every product is worthy of distinction. That being said, you can rest assured that the companies and products on the list this year represent truly outstanding achievement in IP telephony,” said Rich Tehrani, president and group editor-in-chief of TMC. “Their contributions are why so many people turned out in Long Beach to walk the exhibit floor.”

The next INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO will be held February 11-13, 2004 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Miami, Florida. Call now for details about attending or exhibiting, 1-203-852-6800, ext. 146. Or e-mail [email protected]

The full list of the winners is posted on the show Web site at http://www.itexpo.com.

About TMC
Celebrating 30 years as a leading technology publisher, Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) produces industry-leading trade magazines and events focused on technology and communications. TMC publishes two magazines: Customer Inter@ction Solutions, and Internet Telephony, and the online publications, TMCnet.com, Planet PDA Magazine, Alternative Power and BiometriTech. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs, and provide factual and unbiased product reviews. TMC also produces The Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit, BiometriTech and Planet PDA: The Enterprise PDA Event. TMCnet.com publishes more than 25 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit its Web site at http://www.tmcnet.com.

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