[September 7, 2000]

Arelnet Introduces i-Tone Primo For End-To-End Carrier Grade VoIP Capability

Arelnet, a provider of carrier-grade Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony solutions, is set to introduce its i-Tone Primo to provide complete, end-to-end VoIP capability to the marketplace.

The i-Tone Primo's seamless integration with the i-Tone Prime, Arelnet's market leading carrier-grade IP gateway, creates an ideal turnkey solution for small office/home office (SOHO) and small and medium enterprise (SMEs) environments. These smaller enterprises can finally benefit from the high quality VoIP previously available only to larger corporations. In small private networks, i-Tone Primo units can be deployed using their own routing capabilities, with larger deployments utilizing the i-Tone Prime carrier-grade Gateways and Gatekeepers.

"The introduction of the i-Tone Primo is a major step forward in Arelnet's strategy to bring quality VoIP to customers - small and large," said Avi Gliksberg, Arelnet VP Business Development. "Integrating the i-Tone Primo and its i-Tone Prime `big brother' will be a significant factor in enabling service providers to offer value added communications services tailored for businesses of all sizes."

The i-Tone Primo gateway, developed by Arelnet's strategic partner TEK DigiTel, supports 2-4 ports in a stand-alone, H.323-controlled box, interfacing with an enterprise PBX or standard office telephones. A single Primo unit can handle simultaneous voice, fax and data transmissions. The i-Tone Primo has a 10Base-T Ethernet port connected to a LAN and enables optimized voice streaming over packet voice networks. Calls can be routed by the i-Tone Primo between the company's branch offices over existing corporate IP data networks. A wide range of compression levels enable low bandwidth consumption and provide carrier grade voice quality.

The i-Tone Prime, launched in May 2000, is a hot-swappable, no-single-point-of-failure, highly scalable carrier-grade gateway. Up to 24 T1s or 30 E1s can be configured in a single gateway. Multiple i-Tone Prime units can handle in excess of 20,000 simultaneous calls in a rack mounted stackable configuration. The i-Tone Prime's high density and excellent price-performance introduces a new dimension of products for converged networks. i-Tone Prime Gateway was designed from inception for VoIP operations and its innovative architecture sets new standards for service richness, cost of ownership, interoperability, scalability and other carrier critical parameters.

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