CommuniGate Systems opens office in Singapore to satisfy IP Communications needs in APAC.

Local subsidiary of CommuniGate Systems will support partners and customers to 'SIPify' the still-growing VoIP market in the Asia-Pacific region

MILL VALLEY, CA (June 28, 2006) - CommuniGate Systems, the leader in scalable carrier-class Internet Communications solutions, announced today the opening of a new office in Singapore to serve the need of scalable, total IP Communications in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The APAC office will support customers and partners, providing IMS-ready core infrastructure for all Internet Communications including email, VoIP, IM and other SIP applications. Dr. John Yam will lead this office as Vice President, Asia-Pacific Operations.

The Singapore subsidiary of CommuniGate Systems will work with local existing and new partners to drive the adoption of SIP, and to follow the company's strategy to 'SIPify' the world by enabling the nearly 2 billion email addresses around the globe to use IMS-ready voice applications. Customers will benefit from local expertise in IP Communications offered by the new APAC office.

As the APAC Vice President, Dr. Yam has over 19 years of successful sales and market development experience in the telecommunication and web information industries. Prior to joining CommuniGate Systems, Dr. Yam held successful direct sales and business development roles with top organizations such as Intel, Pacific Century Corporate Access and ECI Telecom. He will drive the sustained business growth of CommuniGate Systems to key APAC countries like Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand.

"Asia-Pacific is one of the fastest growing markets for converged Internet Communications. We saw the rising need for a local presence over the past few months to really serve the market adequately. In bringing Dr. John Yam on board, we found an experienced Vice President to build a solid presence in this region, which allows us to help focus on new partners and customers demanding a full IP Communications Suite with CommuniGate Pro. ISPs and carriers especially in APAC are serving millions of customers and need to rely on a scalable solution with low TCO to offer IMS-ready solutions," said Jon R. Doyle, VP Business Development, CommuniGate Systems

CommuniGate Pro provides ISPs, carriers and enterprises with a solid, scalable core infrastructure for voice and data Internet Communications. It allows subscribers a choice of clients - IP phones, soft clients, traditional telephony, mobile devices, browsers and IM agents - all through a single account. Traditional telephone and mobile numbers or extensions are available through PSTN connectivity and ENUM, while CommuniGate Pro delivers all modes of IMS-related protocols such as SIP, XMPP, RADIUS and others through an open, high-performance platform, personalized applications built on CG/PL, XML, Perl/Java development modules, and easily used APIs. CommuniGate Pro joins multiple gateways for IP-to-IP, PSTN-to-IP and PSTN-to-PSTN connectivity. Ultimately, with CommuniGate Pro all users have access to a single source for email, collaboration, voice/video and mobile IP Communications. A fully-featured trial version of CommuniGate Pro can be downloaded today at http://www.communigate.com.

About CommuniGate Systems
Founded in 1991 and based in Mill Valley, California, CommuniGate Systems develops carrier-class Unified Communications and media delivery software for broadband and mobile operators to deliver value-added services and SaaS solutions. CommuniGate Systems delivers powerful mashups of Unified Communications technology mixed with media and entertainment applications for portals, social networks, enterprises and mobile communities. CommuniGate Systems is revolutionizing the Unified Communications industry with a unique Flash-based client framework Pronto! bringing together all forms of communication and breaking the leash to the desktop with Web 2.0 mobility.

CommuniGate Systems is the first choice in technology solutions for over 12,000 customers with over 130 million subscribers unifying e-mail, collaboration, IM, presence and VoIP with a single identity. The Unified Communications platform provides flexibility, performance, and scalability with benchmark proven architecture remaining unchallenged in the industry. Our technology powers OEM partner products ranging from embedded real time systems to powerful unified messaging platforms at top tier global network operators. The open development environment's simple APIs deliver extensible flexibility with a unique clustering technology for 99.999% uptime for the most demanding application environments.

The company is a trusted and financially stable vendor, maintaining the highest customer satisfaction levels in the Unified Communications industry with over 175 members in its partner network worldwide.