CommuniGate Systems equips Versature with hosted IP Communications platform to increase customer satisfaction and generate new revenue.

CommuniGate Pro provides comprehensive, customizable Internet Communications solution, helping Versature grow its managed SMB offering

MILL VALLEY, CA (August 28, 2006) - CommuniGate Systems, the leader in scalable, carrier-class Internet Communications solutions, today announced that Versature has chosen its CommuniGate Pro platform as the platform and foundation for its managed IP PBX offering for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

As an established service provider of business-class VoIP, Versature initially developed a premise-based system, which proved to be complex and time-consuming. It also prevented Versature from standardizing its offering to generate value-added revenue for enhanced services. Versature needed to find a scalable solution that would enable it to move to a fully hosted and virtualized PBX model that could scale.

After evaluating multiple solutions, Versature selected CommuniGate Pro to provide a rich and manageable hosted IP PBX system, based on open-standards. As a complete IP Communications platform, CommuniGate Pro enables Versature to offer services beyond SIP-based VoIP, such as email, instant messaging and collaboration packages. CommuniGate Pro allows Versature to develop its own applications for added IP value with the CG/PL language and the XIMSS API provides rapid web/XML interfaces to the platform. This allowed Versature to increase its revenue stream through an array of value-added Internet Communications offerings.

"Versature saw a huge opportunity to bring VoIP to the businesses that need it most, with a flexible, hosted solution that avoids the costs and headaches of setting up a traditional phone system," said Adam Sherman, Chief Technology Officer at Versature. "CommuniGate Pro has been easy to configure and maintain, allowing us to virtualize a customized PBX environment for many different customers within a single infrastructure. We look forward to future versions of CommuniGate Pro with more enhanced VoIP applications, allowing us to offer even more services."

Versature quickly implemented a CommuniGate Pro 5 as a single-server, but "cluster-ready" solution. For scalability and 99.999% uptime, Versature then added additional nodes to form an all-active cluster. This unique clustering technology allows updates and changes to platforms with the "just add nodes" and "rolling updates" features for zero subscriber downtime when performing cluster wide changes. The Versature environment provides a complete suite of IP PBX services in a hosted model for virtualized domains with delegated administration, with 10+ additional domains being added each month.

Services offered include voicemail and auto-attendant, self-service, webmail access to voicemail, multiparty conference calling and secure instant messaging. CommuniGate Pro has successfully demonstrated scalability of over 150,000 domains in live environments, and recently performed a POC with HP showing 10M voice subscribers in a virtualized cluster. No other platform on the market today has demonstrated these levels of performance, scalability, low administration and TCO.

"CommuniGate Pro is an ideal solution for managed service providers like Versature, looking for a comprehensive IP Communications platform," said Jon R. Doyle, Vice President of Business Development for CommuniGate Systems. "CommuniGate Pro enables subscribers to experience open standards voice and IP Communications services, at an affordable cost. CommuniGate Pro is driving the SIP standard at carrier levels through the technology and contributions to the associations developing the architectures and standards like IMS and IPv6. CommuniGate Systems is leading the way to 'SIP-enable' the nearly two billion email accounts around the world to one identity for all forms of IP Communications - voice, video and email - with no concept of location or tolls."

CommuniGate Pro is recognized as the clear leader in providing carriers with rich packaged features that increase the subscriber value potential and increase retention rates. The all-active dynamic clustering provides multi-million user sites 99.999% uptime and a rolling update capability that no other platform is able to maintain. CommuniGate Pro is the first real-time Internet Communications platform to utilize multiple operating systems in the same cluster, providing carriers with the flexibility to mix and match legacy or new architectures while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO). To test CommuniGate Pro from home, and help 'SIPify' the world, visit http://www.communigate.com.

About Versature
Based in Ottawa, Versature is a national provider of innovative VoIP business communications solutions to mobile professionals, small and medium-sized business customers across Canada.

Businesses as small as one person and as large as 250 staff members are migrating to Versature to enjoy the benefits of lower costs, care-free service and flexibility for growth with their hosted telecommunications services.

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.